Right, I need to get back to blogging. Yes. I will try my very best, starting now.
In a day that is easy to remember negatives I need to jot down a few positives. The things that have made me happy today are:
Getting an email back from the local newspaper to say they are considering using [...]
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Posted in About me, Anthony, Family, Katie, Stress, tagged children, parenting, Stress, patience, Behaviour, portage, support on 24 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yet again I have copied this from an internet forum where I have lots of wonderful, supportive friends. I need to document the progress that is being made with Katie and it might be of interest to others.
Today was pretty horrendous
It started with attempting to get her to playgroup this morning. She screamed as [...]
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Posted in About me, Anthony, Family, Katie, Photography, Robyn, tagged Camera, happy, hobbies, Photos, Places on 12 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
On my photography course this week I am asked to take two pictures of someone, somewhere or something that you really like. This has really got me thinking. I have been trying hard to think which two things are worthy of being at the top of that list and of course which two things are good to [...]
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Posted in Anthony, Celebrations, tagged celebration, job, work on 4 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
He has done it! The work trial is just “because they can”. Lets face it, if you could get away with employing a manager for 2 weeks and it costing nothing then you would!
My husband is the Manager of a sandwich shop and café. We have the serious chance in the future to sublet the premises [...]
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Well Anthony has been offered a 2 week work trial which basically means we stay on benefits for the time being and work for free!
The employers can then let Anthony prove himself in the job (which is managing a brand new café with the chance of going into business with them in the future) and then decide [...]
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We are currently waiting on some potentially very exciting job news for Anthony. If he gets offered this job the last 18 months of unemployment will be all worth it. All the failed interviews and applications will have been for a reason. It is a job that doesn’t come along very often. In fact, it’s [...]
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It’s been far too long since I updated my blog. Apologies. It’s been all change here recently so I hope to update a bit more regularly.
Anthony is 2 weeks into a 13 weeks New Deal training scheme. He is currently at a training centre every day but is waiting for a work placement to come up. [...]
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So today I got tagged in a Facebook note which asked me to write 25 random things about myself. I found myself this afternoon with an empty house… Robyn was at school, Katie was having fun at Nanny’s house and Anthony was working on the car. For me being in the house on my own [...]
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Posted in Anthony, Robyn, tagged Eye on 4 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Robyn started back at school on Tuesday… Year 1. She seems to be really enjoying being back and has been nice and tired in the evenings lol.
It has been lovely to have Robyn at home in the holidays but its nice now to be back in a routine. As I type Anthony is still asleep [...]
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