another magic bean

I told Evies teacher this morning that Evies bean hasnt yet sprouted and he gave me another bean

I was hoping that he would give me five of them like Jack gets in the story, but I guess thats inflation for you :)

We will plant it when Evie gets home from school

one magic bean

no bean stalk no investment job and no humpty dumpty

Yesterday I finally got an e-mail regarding the investment job interview and I didnt get it...

...oh well :)

Yesterday I also picked up Evies (not even sprouted yet) bean stalk (I think that I will ask her teacher for a bean to plant in there).  Most of the others had planted save for a few so we will give it another go :).

Evie had some homework to bring in at the beginning of the week...

...it was to decorate a polystyrene egg like humpty dumpty :)

humpty dumpty

...she was supposed to bring it home with her yesterday and it wasnt in her bag, so I will ask her teacher about that too.

Its Evies last day before she breaks up for the Easter holiday so thats good :)

thirteen pounds

I weighed myself yesterday and I have lost another 2 lbs...

...so I only have another 13 lbs to go :)

And I have been able to connect and have a realtime text message chat with my friend in Texas thanks to Whatsapp :)

And its Mothers Day so happy Mothers Day Mum :)

red nose day

Today is Red Nose Day

Evie has since taken off her t-shirt

me & Evie with our noses

inserview

My interview yesterday went well.

They explained the job, and it sounds like what I have done before so thats good.

And there were no "odball" questions to report on.

I will hear by the end of the week :)

Interview tomorrow

I have another interview tomorrow.

It is just a contract until the end of May - and if I get it st least it will give us a taster of how evie will be going to the breskfast/after school club.

It is with one of the big insurance companies and is doing what I used to do in my job before last.

sharing learning journal

This morning us Mums/Dads/whoever brings them to school gets to go into the classroom and Evie will share her learning journal with me :)

Evie just likes to look at her pictures in there so I doubt that I will get enough of a look to read anything :)

Still thats what parents evening is for :)

investerview

On Friday I had my interview.

I think it went quite well...

As well as the usual questions, they asked "if money was no object what would I like to do" so I said to be a chocolate taster for Cadburys :) I didnt say Hotel Chocolat in case they thought that I was a food snob :) and that I would like to travel around the world :)

I will find out by the end of next week if I have got to the second interview stage.

As on Friday it is Red Nose Day and its a PE day, and the theme is to wear something red, and the only things that we have that are red are "button up", I decided to get her something in Primark.

The girls section did not have anything that was red, so I looked in the boys section...

...so I got her this t-shirt, and while I was in there I bought myself a size 14 t-shirt and it fits :)

magic beans in waiting

Yesterday when I picked Evie up from school, I saw another tray of plastic cups...

...so I found Evies cup and held it in my hand.

When the teacher was letting the kiddies out he told us Mums & Dads not to take the beans.

So on our way home I asked Evie what she had planted and she said "magic beans".

I am not sure when we have to take them home or if they are something for the kids to look after at school.

sunflower diary - week one

On Monday we measured Charlotte Pinky-Pie ;)

She is now 5 cm tall.

I wrote the date together with the measurement in Evies sunflower diary and one of the Mums told me that they want the children to do the writing...

...last night when James got home from work, he had printed off some pictures.

So I stuck the pictures over what I had written and got Evie to do the writing instead and then I wrote the same thing too so they could see what it said.

Evies beautiful writing

My plea worked

Last week I applied for a job with an investment company.

There was an "any other relevant information" type box so I said "please don't let my age put you off, I'm a great person".

And it seems to have worked, as I have been asked to go in for an interview on Friday.

peaking through

Every morning (since Wednesday) we have checked on Evies sunflower seed..

...yesterday after James had gotten up he told me that the seed had finally sprouted :)

So I got Evie to check on the plant and she told me that it still hadnt grown, so I told her to check properly and she told me that there was a leaf sticking out.

Evie assessing her plant

I weighed myself yesterday and I have lost another 2 lbs so that is 41lbs in total or 2 stones 13lbs and considering I had a whole carton of pancake mixture (as pancakes on Shrove Tuesday) I have done well :)

Charlotte Pinky-Pie

Yesterday when I picked Evie up from school one of the classroom assistants said that the kids had been planting sunflower seeds, so to pick up your childs seed while waiting for them to be let out :)

I found Evies seed :)

Charlotte Pinky-Pie

We also have a sunflower diary to keep too.

We have to keep it alive for 6 weeks!  Her teacher said that they have some extra seeds if anyone needs them :)

Evie has decided to call her sunflower Charlotte Pinky-Pie :)

She is living in the airing cupboard at the moment.

And last night when Evie went to bed she said goodnight to her :)

No tokens

Every morning on our way to school me and evie have a competition to see who can see the people handing out the tokens first.

Evie always wins.

This morning we were turning the corner expecting to see the people giving out the tokens and no-one was there.

One of the mum's asked mr f and he said that he thinks that they will only be giving them out now every other Monday.

I did wonder how long that they would be doing it every day for, and we know now it was just a week.

e-book of thanks

I love listening to podcasts (in the evenings after Evie has gone to bed) and finding new ones to listen to.

I recently found FBI Retired and the author (a former FBI agent) has written her first novel.

At the end of the podcast she always says that if you enjoy the podcast, then by way of saying thanks you should buy her book.

And at least its more original than the usual "send us a monthly donation" that you tend to get from US podcasts.

So I checked it out on Amazon and the kindle edition is only £2.40...

...so I bought it :)

So I shall start reading it tomorrow (as I need to pop into town) or Friday in the hairdressers on my phone.

parents evening again

Yesterday I had Evies second parents evening...

I was looking through her books and her teacher told me that he was ready for me, so I left her books and we started.

I asked about her socialising now as I have noticed in the mornings that she runs off and plays with M :) he said that she is getting better but there are some days where she still needs to be encouraged.

He also said that she has trouble holding her pencil and needs to improve her motor neuron skills, so I asked how we can help and he said getting her to pick things up with tweezers and getting her to draw letters in bubbles and sand.

He said that he will look into a before school club that they sometimes run to see if it is still on and if there is a space for Evie.

He also said that she needs to practice putting numbers into sentences, such as Mummy had 6 sweets and gave me 2 so there were 4 left.  She is good at the concept of numbers going up but not with numbers going down.

He also said that she has trouble sitting down on the floor and will sometimes just stand there staring into space and he thinks its a muscle thing, I told him that she has no trouble at home and that she just has no sense of urgency and is really easily distracted.

On the plus side he said that she is good with her sounds and number and letter recognition and with her shapes, and that she is really well behaved and all the children like her

frog fairy Evie

Today is World Book Day, Evies school is encouraging the kids to go in dressed as their favourite book characters.

As Evie has some princess dresses I thought that she would go in dressed as a princess.

But no she wanted a new dress, so James got her a fairy dress, so she is dressed up as a "frog fairy" :)

frog fairy Evie

nada newspaper job

I got home from being in town yesterday.

And I got a letter...

...it said thanks for coming to the interview but I wasnt successful in getting the job...

...oh well