My life as a mum

I originally wrote this post a while back just before my laptop broke . After watching dvd’s every day for a month in the Summer (because of our Summer pass), I was relieved that we didn’t have to go to the dvd place every day anymore. Yes , I know we never really had to but we didn’t want to miss the chance to get a dvd most days and you could always only keep them for one day and then you had to go back to return them or renew them. So we just kept going every day and then we took new ones again, except for two times or so that we managed to get the Xtravision on the phone to renew the loans we had. When we brought back the last dvd, I allowed Ixora to choose one dvd to buy. She chose one that she had never seen before. Gnomeo and Juliet. And she loved it. Gnomeo and Juliet turned out to be a big hit with the kids:a dvd the kids would watch over and over again. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first, but since they love this dvd so much I decided to make a post about it. ...

Here in Ireland most people normally do their Christmas shopping well in advance. From October/ November you will hear people asking each other a lot : 'Have you started your Christmas shopping yet ? ' There will always be special sales in all the shops starting around that time or maybe even earlier. There will especially be great discounts on toys. But in the almost seven years that I have been living here, I have never really started shopping for Christmas gifts in advance. I usually by my gifts just before Christmas Day. Only this year, I joined in with the early Christmas shopping and started getting some bits in from a few weeks ago. Maybe I got a bit influenced by the people that I work with on my work placement in a Montessori. But I really love knowing that the kids will at least have a few new things that they need or that they would like to have, on Christmas Day and not having to try to get something for them last minute. And I like that I got to divide the costs ...

After swimming in seas of laptoplessness and internetlessness for weeks, I finally have a working laptop again and some internet access. Yay ! Now to get back to blogging, is a totally different thing. But here we are giving it a try. I feel a bit guilty for not being able to maintain my blog and not being able to keep in contact with all the bloggy friends that I've made. So I apologise for all of that... So what have I been up to in the past weeks ? Apart from following college classes, reading books for college, doing work experience and doing homework and assignments, I started a new hobby and went back to an old one. Being in college can be stressful sometimes so I am certainly happy and pleased that I found these hobbies, that give me the opportunity to relax a little bit. In college I joined the group 'Knit and natter' which is held during lunch break once a week. I haven't knitted yet but since I was taught crochet as a child I started with that, just...

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Hello Monda y Hello  t o becoming a college s tu den t. Hello  t o waking up earl y   t o make i t  on  t ime  t o college. Hello  t o mee ting  new people and making college buddies. Hello  t o doing homework and reading books for college. Hello  t o learning more  abou t  child developmen t  and all  t he bi t s and pieces of  t he Maria Mon tessori  me thod. Hello  t o ge t ting   more and more exci ted  abou t    t he Maria Mon t essori me t hod. Hello  t o prac t ising 'prac t ical life skills' wi t h m y  kids a t   home. Hello  t o ge t t ing  t he chance  t o  t rain  t o become a Mon tessori    teacher   in a  y ear. Hello  t o feeling blessed and gra t eful  t ha t  I am able  t o do  t his s tud y   , gra teful  for receiving all  t his knowl...

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I've been very busy lately and have been having problems with the keyboard from my laptop as well. So hopefully next week I'll be able to post some more. Today I wanted to share something that I've been working on for awhile. Or actually I stopped working on it but I don't think that it's really finished yet. I've been writing a novel and unfortunately the completed version is currently on a damaged hard disc from my old laptop. Even though I stopped writing at some point, I think that there will probably be a lot of re-writing to do and maybe I will add more to the story as well, so it will be some time before it is really ready. Today I wanted to share an excerpt from it. So here it goes. I hope that you'll enjoy it and let me know what you think....   The counting to midnight had begun.   10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Happy new year ! An explosion of joy followed in the small bar where Rebekka had decided to spend her New years eve with some close friend...

When I heard about the Flightfest, I thought: 'interesting but probably not something we’ll be able to go to.' But since Ixora really wanted to go, as she told me on Saturday and there was an Flightfest advertisement poster at a LUAS station that said : ‘take the LUAS’ , I decided to go on google to do some research to find out where it actually was and how you could get there. It appeared to be quite easy to get there so on Sunday morning when I found that out, I decided that we would go. I made a few sandwiches and filled two bottles with juice but I didn’t count on the rainy weather. All we had was a broken umbrella and then the rain cover for the double buggy and at some stage Ixora and I were really totally soaked, so much that she wanted to go home before it actually had started. I refused ofcourse and told her that we came for the airplanes and that I at least wanted to see a few fly over. And I also told her that she would get dry again. The weather rea...