Guilty Pleasure

This morning was my first morning in, like, ever that I had NO children with me, and I wasn't at work either. They were all safely tucked away at school, and I came home to a quiet, calm, tidy house. A small pile of ironing (I'm so good at keeping on top of it at the moment) was finished quickly in front of Jeremy Kyle (actually, he is one of my guilty pleasures, but that's not what this post is about!), and then I had some free time. So with music on loud and a cuppa with me, I spent the morning in my room making some cards. I could have scrapped since I have a LOAD of new stash that hasn't been touched yet, but I also have a PILE of cards to get done. So there I am happily making cards until 12 when I have to fetch Bella. 3pm arrives, cue RAIN. I have been banging on for around 2 years now how it always rains on a Tuesday in Bromsgrove. And it really does, and I know because we do ballet on a Tuesday and we always come home wet. Anyhow, I decided to start logging the rain so I can prove my theory to people, so I opened my diary to log my rain, when bam I realised why my quiet morning had been such a guilty pleasure...I should have been at the Speech Therapist with Cam and Bella at 10.45. And what's even more annoying is the fact that I had phoned them 3 times last week to cancel/rearrange/un-cancel!!!! How stupid am I??? I've only been waiting for the appointment for 4 months!!!!!

So, here are my cards anyway, I got 4 done (the photo of one didn't come out - my camera is still dead :() this morning and it was very enjoyable, even if it wasn't meant to be!!!

Elsewhere in the Chance Family life, we bought the kids a trampoline at the weekend, I don't know why we hadn't got one before! The kids have been on it non-stop, Maddie is on it 24/7 and she's no fairweather bouncer, she's on it rain or shine! We had some great news about Maddie this week - she's training really hard at the moment as she's going to be taking part in some gymnastics trials soon, we're so proud of her! I can just see us in ten years time when she's won her 3rd Gold Olympic medal, and my speech will refer to all the people (yes me included) who laughed and joked so much about how clumsy Maddie always was, and how she was never able to stay upright for long! Maddie was walking at 10 months and I always used to say that yes she was walking at ten months, but at age 3/4/5/6 she was still no better than the day she took her first steps! And look at her now!!! (ok so I get carried away a little.....!)