Student and Mummy...

Need I say more?

40 minutes later, lots of tears and with the help of some tweezers I managed to remove it.

Ughh.

Well this weekend we went to Devon.

My Dad brought a place in Kingsbridge back last year and we haven't had the chance to visit it yet - so being half term we thought we'd go. We were supposed to go Thursday but then my interview at uni came up so we had to wait until Friday.

So Friday morning we set off, all hunky dory.

Expecting the journey to take about 4 - 41/2 hours with a couple of stops. We got on the M3 and there was an accident, this held us up for nearly 2 hours. Finally after 6 hours and plenty of whingeing from the poor kids we arrived. I'd checked with my dad 3 times that we had the right keys for the cottage and was joking with Giles about not being able to get in - BIG mistake.
I put the key in the front door and it wouldn't open...! I clambered over a fence and through the shrubs and found the back door - that wouldn't open either. i tried to call my dad but being the country - no signal on my mobile. Luckily I managed to use one of the keys to open the back door. It turns out that they are newly cut keys and they hadn't tried them..GRRR. My front door key opens the door from the inside but not the outside.
Anyway eventually we get in - my dad had assured me that the cottage was child friendly. First thing I noticed, white carpets through the entire place. Antique furniture everywhere and the place was spotless, just like something from Country Homes.

Thomas was a complete nightmare the entire weekend, we took the kids to the seaside on Saturday morning and Tom managed to get drenched. He then spent the rest of the day moaning that he was cold/tired/hungry/thirsty and anything else he could moan about. it took us ages to find somewhere to get some lunch and was £10 for 2 sandwiches and 2 sausage rolls.
The kids woke up about 5 every morning and I was way to paranoid to let them downstairs by themselves, so an early start for us to.
I couldn't even sit them infront of Milkshake cos they don't get channel 5 there - nightmare.
Thomas managed to break an ornament, and I managed to fuse the lights on the last night. So none of the lights at the front of the cottage are working, Oops.

We got straight up Sunday morning tidied up and left to come home. The traffic was easier which was a blessing. We decided to stop in a Little chef for lunch. They brought Giles and mine but the kids didn't arrive anyway a few minutes later I asked and was told that the waitress had forgotten to add the kids lunches to the order! so another 20 minutes till the kids got theirs, by which time they'd eaten so much of ours they weren't hungry. I did get money off the bill though, fortunatley.
Eventually we got home to find that the boiler had packed up! Giles managed to fix it after a few hours, but it was freezing in the house.

I've never been so glad for Monday to arrive, I don't think the kids have either - oh and typically this morning I had to wake them both up at 7.15 .

It was the longest weekend of my life.....

Oh and it cost us £70 in fuel. Shit.

Why does the time go by so quickly?

I certainly could do with an extra two days in the week to be honest.
I simply struggle to fit everything in - or possibly I just have terrible time management.

The kids have been ill again since I last jotted in here, so they are both now on multi vitamins and Grace is on a tonic to build her up. During the winter they seem to get so pale and drawn - they get up far too early aswell! So hopefully we can bolster their immune systems with some vitamins which, with the best will in the word, are probably lacking from their diet.

Someone kindly pranged into my car the other day on the dredded school run, so that's looking rather poorly and awaiting a visit to the garage to be repaired, luckily the lady admitted liability so her insurance is having to fork out.

College has been non existent for the last few weeks, the Psychology teacher was off to the states for a holiday and the Sociology teacher has allegedly been ill - so no college, but still two assignments to hand in. They are all done and dusted now though, thank goodness.

I have a uni interview on Thursday, this is my first choice uni and rather than being nervous now I just want it over and done with and to know the outcome. So fingers crossed for me!!

Voluntary work at the hospice is going well and the people are lovely. It's fab being able to give a few hours to such a worthy cause. It also puts many things into perspective, life is very precious and we should all be making the absolute most out of it! It also brings home that really fucking shit things happen to the nicest people and it's just not fair.

I've found the best class at the gym - Urban rebound, it's fantastic! I strongly urge anyone to try it, it's so much fun. I've also been doing a few group cycling classes aswell which are pretty cool.

So that's about it really, off to Devon this weekend for a few days, my Dad has a cottage there so that should be nice and relaxing - yay!