First Snow

The weather forecast for today was snow but when I woke up this morning there was none.  I took the boys to school and just as they had closed the doors, it started to snow.  

I went in to assembly today and watched some very entertaining children.  Then I watched while Alfie received his certificate for Student of the Month - not bad in 2 days eh?  (It was actually for Courage for being the new boy).

He looked really embarrassed at first but the more people that got up, the more he seemed to be comfortable.  He is actually posing for a photo here which is unusual for him.

Then the snow really started - I decided to stay in and clean and do washing today (hey the life of a stay at home MOM!).  But the good thing is I got to watch the snow from the safety and warmth of the house.

Now the house is clean and tidy I have decided the boys can stay outside. It smells too nice to let them in!!

When I picked the boys up from school the snow was starting to melt ................

(the sun was out) but they still decided to throw snowballs at me................

Then we went off to buy my car.  I got it.  Pick it up on Friday.

I decided it was time to shower the boys as the house is clean I thought they should be too.  What should I find in Smallest's hair?  oh no not again!  Those goddam nits.  Arrghh.  Sent Huffle out to buy some stuff while I painstakingly combed through his big mop of hair.  It took ages, at least you can see them in his blond hair.

.... And now of course my head itches all over.  Whether I've got them or not (I didn't before) I now have to condition my hair and also painstakingly comb through my big mop too.    Arrrgggghhhh.  

Oh yeah - my car - I nearly forgot.  I've had a few messages about the fact that I said it looked like a dog.  (do you ever say something and wish you hadn't?) - I fear you may be disappointed!

.......just squint a bit.  His big black nose?  His puppy dog eyes?  His tongue hanging out?

Test drive in the rain

Smallest and I dropped Small off at school this morning.  He didn't want us to wait with him, he wanted to walk in by himself.  So we stood and watched him walk to the playground (he looked back and waved) and then we left him to it.

We then tried to find a car lot where we were going to test drive the car that Huffle found on the Internet last night.  It was absolutely piddling down with rain, flowing down the streets, buffering the car, we got wet through.

Anyway we test drove the car, seemed okay, solid, good price, rang Huffle, he said buy it.  WE BOUGHT IT.  Papers filled in, signed, deposit paid.  He gets it in a few days.  The car lot man was very nice and friendly (who isn't?) and said he wouldn't add this and he wouldn't add that, all because we were new to the country and he knew how hard it was to be new.  He arrived here in the 80's and he said they weren't quite so helpful and friendly then, so he said he would always be helpful to anyone he met who was new.  He was from Iran and Newcastle (not sure in what order!)

Then we did some shopping and picked up some lunch which we had to eat in the car because it was still raining, very very fast and wet.

We went off to find the car I found on the Internet last night.  Had a test drive.  NICE.  I have all the details and we are going to talk about it this evening and make a decision.  My car looks like a dog!  I'll show you tomorrow if I buy it!   Honest It does!

Just had an invite to dinner with KP and A.  Cool.  While we were out we met someone else from Smallest's class and they live near where we will live too, so there's another person I've met and her other daughter is in Small's class.

Apart from the fact that it has rained ALL DAY (I got the blame, KP said I brought it with me from England!) it has been a fairly good, productive day.

Loved spending it with Small today although we haven't done anything except drive and look at cars but he is happy today and kept saying "we're having a lovely day aren't we Mummy", he knows the right thing to say eh?  

We came home, got dry, watched TV, 

...... put shopping away and prepared dinner, got Small, had dinner, waited for Huffle to come home.

Small won an award today for "A great sentence in his agenda".  This means he wrote a great sentence in his diary (they have an agenda they have to write in everyday, this gets signed by the teacher and then comes home for us to see and we have to sign in it too).

There is an assembly tomorrow morning (monthly) and I have been given the heads up by Small's teacher that he will be given an award so I have to be there.  How exciting!

Huffle's day was good, busy, lots of meetings and lots of seeing people.  Another busy day for him tomorrow.