ten on tuesday 19/11/2013

1) Lets start with the weather. {I thought I'd be different from all the blogs that say 'I'm not mentioning the weather' because lets face it, we like to talk about the weather, it being the fickle, fickle thing that it is} Today is freezing, but to be fair it IS november and I'm never sure what people expect in 'winter' -sunshine and shorts?? I dont hold with the long range forecast the media like to dramatise too. I like to keep going and reading the post from the Met Office, where they say look we cant see months and months ahead! dont believe the papers!!  But then.... a tiny part of me thinks I should maybe stock buy bread/milk/sledges/snow shovels/blankets to keep my babies safe. {ALL my babies, the feathery and the grown up ones included!!}  I'm not sure if thats the Mother in me, the British in me or the general panicker in me ;)

2) Its been a beautiful blue sky out there and I am not riding. *shakes head* I'm so dozy! I should have taken today as my riding day and not tomorrow or the next day when its pants weather and grey skies. Mind you Tuesdays I ache - intensive riding lessons on Mondays do tend to wipe me out. A little pony time after school today too, because it makes us all happy. 

3) Speaking of riding lessons, I have the best freelance instructor ever. She's amazing. Her name is Lee and I find shes completely different to the usual instructor. She doesnt stand in the middle and shout for starters ;) She teaches riding from the seat, and specialises in many clever things, including people who used to hurtle around on ponies and horses, took a big break from it, and have come back to it. Thats me! ;) I feel shes teaching me to slowly become the rider I want to be, and giving me the chance to have faith in myself too.  Her website is Riding in Harmony and I encourage all the horsey friends of mine to book her. Just not on Mondays, mondays, for at least an hour, shes mine ;) 

4) I'm doing shockingly with my Christmas shopping. I just have no enthusiam for Christmas this year. Feels like a chore. Its not how or where I want it to be, its not sumptuous with abundant funds, so I'm already finding it an effort. Make an effort I will of course however, because when the littlest people are still 7 & 10 they deserve some magic. I was determined to never become a disillusioned adult but hey ... when a lot of the stress and hassle of it is your 'job' then no wonder we get very bah humbug. Does that sound terrible?....

5) School run traffic, laundry, baking, tidying, editing, fighting with the internet; thats my day so far.  No, really, the excitement today is overwhelming. 

6) I have made up to dec 16th in the daily december scrapbook. All decorated pages, ready for photos and journaling. Its a got a bit of a quirky look this year and I'm super excited by it. I could buy one of the many beautiful beautiful ready made December templates in the Designer Digitals store, but I like the harder route as always! Using my Designer Digitals christmas goodies to build my own!

7) I'm lying on my bed reading the Hobbit to the girls each night. We keep having to stop to let me yawn... all this fresh air and exercise, then lying down in the dim light before their bedtime... yep, I'm nearly asleep before them! 

8) Christmas meals, trips, concerts, carols, plays, parties, choir..... my desk is drowning in paperwork from school. I'm carefully putting it all on my phone calendar as we go along. Last night as I tried to add something, my phone said er... no you are already busy on that day with two other things. I KNOW!! its December! get used to it iPhone, get used to it...

9) I have had the greatest idea for a special christmas photo shoot. I just need to check a few things first and then... :) :) 

10) A few months ago, my hard drive died in my iMac. I was very fortunate that it was a'known' issue with my iMac year, and got repaired for free. Well, I think I was fortunate.... I'm obviously glad I didnt have to pay, and that it was fixed and back with me fast. I'm still a little bothered I hadnt been told or contacted before it broke tho.... I was pretty lucky most thigns were backed up on my time machine. However I lost all my itunes songs. Now yes- they are available for free re-downloading in the store if you've already purchased them, but one.by.one. One by one?! Its going to take me hours. Anybody know a short cut?!