The moment you realise that yes you have lost weight....

....when you're walking up the stairs in work wearing jeans for the dress down day and you're thighs aren't doing their usual attempting to start a fire rub that you're used to.

Oh YES!!!!!

Reasons To Be Cheerful - 29th November 2012

1.

Our little terrors are almost back to their little bouncy, happy, terrorising little selves after a couple of days with a heavy, phlegmy cold - they just weren't in good form but thankfully they're on the mend. It means they aren't going to go see Santa on Saturday as we want to keep them indoors for as long as possible but there's plenty of time for that next week.

2.

This is a bit of a silly one but I was all chuffed when my oil light came on as I was driving to work this week and I rang one of the guys in the garage (I work in a lorry transport company with their own on-site garage) and asked him about it, I wanted to make sure it was my oil light before I rang the husband to bring up some oil for me but instead of just answering my questions he sent someone over for my keys and they took my car into the garage, checked my oil level and topped it up. How lovely was that? Even better was they did it for nothing despite the fact they had their own work to get on with. I work with some lovely people.

3.

In 2 days time the house is being decorated for Christmas (I absolutely refuse to have any Christmas decorations put up anywhere in the house until December, after that anything goes really) and we can't wait especially with the girlies helping more this year with decorating the tree and making various decorations for our house and for other family members. I'm looking forward to explaining to the girls what Christmas means and telling them the story of baby Jesus

Let the working mummy guilt begin!

My daughters are sick and I'm not there to look after them.

They cried out for me this morning and all I could do was walk away from them.

Being a mummy with a full-time job blows.

Since our girls arrived anytime they've been sick it's been me who's looked after them, me who's wiped their noses, given cuddles, me who's taken them to see the Doctor or Health Visitor, I've done everything cause their Daddy has been at work and now I've had to leave them and I'm feeling dreadful about it.

I know their Daddy is looking after them and then when he goes to work this afternoon they'll be looked after by my own Daddy so they're in good hands but that doesn't ease the guilt - they need me and I'm not there.

Books for Christmas

The Book People arrived in work the other day and left a selection of books for us to go through and order. This was a lovely surprise as I didn't realise this company did things like this.

Of course I've ordered a few kiddies books, I just couldn't resist. The only problem is the books I've ordered are for maybe older children than our toddlers but oh well nothing wrong with being prepared.

Superworm by Julia Donaldson

Just couldn't resist such a fun and interesting character. Having a worm as the 'hero' will definitely appeal to our girls who just recently discovered worms for the 1st time themselves and to be honest I thought the book looked good too (yes I did have a little read in between phone calls).

Dr Seuss Collection in a Bag

I'd never heard of Dr Seuss until I was High School and I'm sorry I missed out on him when I was younger so I want to make sure our girls get started early with him. Being monster twins up to no good I think Thing 1 and Thing 2 will appeal to them.

Hopefully the girls will love these books and hopefully the book man will leave more books in before Christmas so I can see if anything else jumps out at me.

This is not a sponsored post, this is just something I wanted to let others know about because I was so chuffed at finding them :-) 

"Hello, is that the chemist?"

Caller:
"Hello, is that the Chemist?"

Me:
"No, you've dialed a lorry company."

Caller:
"Oh.........sorry........[hangs up]"


I've lost count how many phone calls like that I've had the past fortnight I've been here but they still make me giggle, especially as they're roughly the same time each morning and it's usually the same lady making the call.

Where I was before (a plumbing firm) every week there were a few oul' dolls who'd ring and ask if this was the Doctor's surgery, they never got the joke when I said to them we deal with water works but not the kind you're looking for; usually I got silence and had to very politely explain they'd dialed a wrong number. Never stopped me saying it each time though!

The novelty has worn off....

After almost 3 years of getting up when our girls do and not having to wear proper clothes until after lunchtime each day these early starts are starting to drive me potty. I'm not sure how much more I can take before I either start wolfing down the chocolate or attempt to smother my hubbie the next time he says with a smile on his face it's time to get up whilst he remains in bed all lovely and warm.

Maybe it's the dark mornings?

Maybe it's the road works that's making some drivers act like idiots on the way up the road?

Or maybe it's just that I'm not a morning person and I love my bed too much to have to leave it when it's still dark and raining and miserable to come into work to have to be polite and courteous to some rude people when I answer the phone?

From SAHM to Working Mum

This week marks my return to full-time employment since I went off on maternity leave in 2010. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Though I've worked part-time off and on since 2010 I've always called myself a SAHM because I spent more time at home with our girls than I did in work and I've enjoyed every minute of it but now I'm returning to work and I'm going to miss the girls a whole lot but I'm also going to miss being able to spend all morning in my jammies with no reason or rush to get dressed or brush my hair!

Early mornings aside I'm dreading being out of the house all day only getting back home near 8pm each night after I pick the girls up from whichever grandparent they spent the day with leaving little or no time to get anything done in the house. Fingers crossed a routine will emerge from the chaos.

Thankfully I'm working with a lot of lovely, very friendly and helpful ladies who have done their best to make me feel welcome and have eased me into the role of receptionist/administrator with a smile and plenty of offers of cups of tea to keep me going.