I thought I'd put a quick entry in while it nice and quiet here.

We're still plodding along slowly, we were looking at moving as we are in a 2 bedroom house at the moment which leaks and isn't that great, but we've decided to stay put a little while longer instead as to get a 4 bedroom house we would be looking at paying at least another £150 a month so we're going to try and save first, and rearrange the house around to try and make it more livable, which is not an easy task, I've started on the kitchen as we're rearranging it to get a table in there which should make life a little easier, we're also planning on swopping the living room and office so that is going to be a mammoth task, not made any easier when trying to fit it in between homeschooing and raising 4 young children. Oh well Philippians tells us we can do all things through Chirst.

My eldest dd has started swimming lessons, she's loving it though she gets very nervous on the way there bless her. My son turned 5 this year, we have a thing where for their fifth birthday we really celebrate (decided I didn't want to do big parties for every chid every year, far too much work lol) but this year I really couldn't face a party, a lot of our friends have been having personal problems and I just didn't fancy a gathering of them all together so instead we hired a scooby doo limo to take matt and his sisters and some cousins to water meadows - a posh swimming pool with a "wave" feature and some slides, followed by tea at McDonalds and to top it off every year Bolsover castle which we can see from our house has a fireworks event which happended to be that day!!!

In his words - "this is the best pary of my life" aren't children great?