eyesofthe_child

Lookalike family

This is not serious content.

Andrew is from good looking genetic material. As lookalikes go Andrew's family win hands down. Famous people all the way. Andrew - Phil Mithcell, one of Andrew's cousins, Princess Diana.

Have you ever watched Eastenders? Not usually! The only time I used to watch it was years ago when I was bedridden with the twin pregnancy.

Liv & I were waiting for another programme to start on Friday and we caught the closing moments of the episode and what a cliff hanger.... Aaarggghhh Need to watch it on Monday.. NOT LIKELY!

Night Surfing

Suffice to say, it is well with my soul. There have been times lately when I have pondered quite deeply. Far deeper than I have ventured since a walk with my dad a few months back. There is something that we agreed was time for me to face, though the excuses are many, that is what they are procrastinate excuses.

DADDIES ROCK!

We have had a drawing close sort of few weeks. Where tumult and turmoil has been restored with peace and grace. There have been many heartaches in the Cookie household over the past few weeks. Far too many to cramm in.

We have all been immensely busy and omitting to put time into our families.

Ya better shape up.....

I need a man... There are many things I can turn my hand to and I am able to do many things. I have been forced into a single parent mode while Andrew works away for 4 days of the week, don't worry it is a temporary, very short term thing. It can make us very independent and self reliant. I cannot use a drill, I hate hammers. The rest I will take a challenge, much to Andrew's concern to what he may return to.

There are some ladies, that make a choice to remain single the whole of their lives, there are some that are thrown into it by circumstance. Me I am wimp.

Sensitive Three Year old

Today has been a special and most awesomely, amazingly precious sweet day. Both Jonas and I are suffering the dogged effects of a horrid chest infection. The big children all returned to school after mid term break. Back to work for all of us. I arrived in a rather mischievous mood at the centre today. To be met by equally mischievous staff. Deeply hoping all parents would forgot we are not having our training day until later in June.

Result we did planning and walked over the road to the Well to aid our planning. We could take a deep breath in preparation for tomorrow.

Banner awaits

Yay! I have been playing with my own design page for ages but always lost patience. It is still time consuming and nothing makes sense - the new design and colours are more created by trial and error rather than creative design.

Sucks! You don't get a wide choice of colours to play with. But hey you like it? As for the banner what is the resizing stuff? Why can't that be easy.  Caaarrrlllllaa  Help!!!!!!!!!

Pulled Up

Good food, good wine, good friends make a perfect, relaxing evening. This time was no different. We had been trying since Christmas to get together, so it made the evening together exciting, catching up where we had been, what we had been doing and what God had been doing with us.

Fish Head

Chichester has most definately been the hilite of our week off school. We road tripped down to Chi, quite early on Sunday and slobbed out at the House of Sven, with the wonderful Steve & Carla. What a culture shock to poor Carla & Steve. Their beautiful ordered home ransacked and temporarily anihilated with toys, Wii games, and teen bodies strewn across the floor. Steve smelled like a fish head after he asked ellut to kick the bouy onto his head.

Precious gifts

I have found it very difficult to scribe my heart feelings these last couple of weeks as I have been so stuffed with so many tangled thoughts. I was beginning to feel I wanted to disappear. My brain was beginning to feel like a saturated sponge out of water, if a sponge is in water it remains afloat and happily buoyant, the moment it is out of the water its saturation becomes heavy and drippy. I have been out of my comfort zone of being able to manage and cope, since really March. (Callum's death)

This week has been one of the most emotional ones I have experienced since I was hurled through the tragic death of a little boy that attended the nursery. There have been days I have not even wanted to go to work, but I have been obliged to be there to meet the needs of the children.

Focussed Driving Lessons

I started driving before I was legally old enough and riding a moped when I was twelve. Makes me mischievously proud. Sometimes I look back at some really bad things I did as a teen and wonder how I never got into huge amounts of trouble with the police.

Driving is about being safely in control of a lethal weapon, a weapon that can be used to take you somewhere you want or need to go. It is about being focused to reach a desired destination. When used correctly it is a powerful tool. When is is used incorrectly it has the power to maim, disable, kill and destroy oneself and others. I wonder if I was sit my driving test now whether I would pass, I doubt I can even remember the high way code, because it is a book once read because I needed to know then.