Hoola-hooping Mummy!

Daisy took this fun picture of me!

May, month of May!

The May, on our hawthorn, the tree growing on our front lawn ...


And today, I turned 40!

See-Saw Overloaded?

quite possibly ...

rat's the way we like it ...

our rat, sweetie, has recently had surgery to remove a lump, and altho i at first thought it was growing back, it doesnt appear to be ...
here she is, sniffing daisy's little hand ...



mary is very confident around animals ...



matty is reaching out to be sniffed, you can see the fur on sweetie's left-hand-side growing back already ...



matty and daisy love the camera ...

extreme machining ....

trying to get things done, with an 18 month old that wants a piece of everything ...

her very clear speach includes the following words -

sewing
made
needle
sharp
careful
stab
pins
mummy's
sissors
and yes, machine ...!

of interest to UK HErs, a petition, if you please ...
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Home-ed-families/

stopping off at the park ...

four in one place!

Mary likes to do scrunchy faces and funny breathing at the moment.
did you watch little dorrit? Steve is calling Mary Panks, much to daisy' and Matty's disgust!

Gina the giraffe shown to scale on right of pic.

home educating ... just being like mummy!

this was fun, and thrilling, and by thrilling i mean for me - twins girls less than three years, real needles and real sewing ... just like mummy

i offered this activity because as i was giving mary a feed daisy started pretending to cut and sew my trousers. now they have met needles and pins before, even the sewing machine, but not too close when its switched on - the danger there is they stand on the treddle when im sewing, and sew through my finger!

i gave them squares of fabric, bright emboidery floss, and large-ish needles, fairly sharp - blunt ones would just be frustrating! i knotted the threads so that the needles would stay on. daisy went through 2 squares of fabric and about 4 lengths of thread, her work is the largest and the smallest of the three forms. she concentrated for over an hour.

people often ask me how i get anything done, the answer is just to do it, and to do it with your children.

shock!

i managed to go for a hair cut!
me and the girls popped in, i didnt plan it, i suppose i would have planned to go alone had i really thought about it!...

great service, i was much lighter in no time, and i now have more curls !

more fun feet ...

after the fursuit feet i decided that i would run up some slippers for the girls
as i dont seem to be able to get into town so easily with all three little ones ...
and theirs were wearing out fast ...

these have come out a bit big, but they do love them
the soles are PVC material left over from some costume capes i once made, i made 3 caped avengers for a local council campaign a few years ago now, would you like to see them?

yesterday we went to value house and i bought a monster sized dog collar to make into a belt, to carry the big fursuit mouse's tail ....

at one end of the sofa ....

i sew, read, drink tea, eat pretend food, eat real cake, put my feet up, sketch designs, fail at soduku, make phone calls, stuff sewing projects, take photographs and smile at the children!

and at the other .....

message on polypropalene ....

an image produced by playing with a celephane bag with a message on it, from a friend up north ...
can you work out what it says?
this is what my garden looks like typically, lots of laundry ...
as i type, my bedding is out there now, hope its not a toilet for our resident robin and black bird ...

took the girls to the beach this morning, must do some again sewing soon! *
they were very happy until it was time to leave, i managed to persuade them by getting them to carry their own drinks cups back to the car! i did not take the camera, as i was already wearing mary in the carrier and helping toddlers up steps and so on, daisy had to be helped a couple of times when she fell over running ...

i do love them. they are all asleep right now !

*erk, german scentence construction?

back at work again ....

back at work again ....
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

i am finally getting back to a bit of work again ...
only with three little ones in nappies it feels like playing ... !!!
and i also had my first week with steve back at work and i have left my jacket somewhere today, and my brain with it ....

meet 3 raggyrats who are off out into the world now, mailed yesterday ...

getting some more work on the computer done too, slowly but surely, but i owe lots of replies and thank yous and feel like i will never catch up !