year 1 lunch day

Today we have our Year 1 lunch at Evies school :)

I am sure that Evie has already decided where we are going to sit in the lunch hall :)  She has also decided that she is going to have a yoghurt for her dessert.

And happy birthday Eileen and happy halloween :)

back to normality

Today is the first day back to school after the half term holiday.

Evie is still getting dressed...

...I have told her that as its getting cold she will have to wear trousers and socks on PE day (Tuesdays and Fridays) as she still takes an absolute age to put her tights on.

first day

Today was my first day back at work after an almost six year break :)

I was shown all of the bits that I have to switch on and switch off again at the end of the day.

The group that I am looking after are friendly so thats good.

Next week my boss will be in again and will let me do everything so hopefully I will remember most of it :)

Tap dancing wasnt on today so James took Evie out on a daddy/Evie day to Southend :)

When they came to meet me Evie told me that she didnt miss me at all :)

Its back to school for Evie tomorrow too.

start date

We got home from the dentist yesterday.

I was just about to do the washing up and my phone started ringing...

..it was about my new job :).

It was good news, they now have a start date for me...

...my manager wants me to start as soon as possible so I start on Sunday!

I am nervous already...

Braver than mummy

Me & evie had our dentist appointnents this morning.

Since my wusdom tooth filling i have been really careful and try to clean that tooth also.

Evue had her turn first...

...our lovely dentist was telling the nurse which teeth she has and then said that she had a chipped tooth!

She then told me that she would have to put some plaster onto it, apparently its common with baby teeth.

I asked if evie would have to ve careful about eating but said that she would be ok.

Sge told evie thst she was braver than mummy :)

It was then my turn and luckily i didnt need anything doing apart from a clean and polish but she couldnt do.it because the cimpressor is broken.

I asked evie later if it was ok when the dentus put the plaster on and she said tgat it hurt a but but was ok now.

no sticker and no toy

Yesterday Evie ad her latest eye appointment.

Normally she gets seen by one of the nice ladies, but yesterday it was with a man, and he wasnt as child friendly as the others are.

He only got her to look at a couple of the letters with each eye (they normally do loads of letters gradually going down in size) and he didnt give her a sticker after either.

We have to go back for her next appointment in four months time.

We also got the next newsletter from tap dancing - they have said that they dont want the pre school children (or the older ones) taking in toys cuddly/flashing/singing, we always told Evie any toy she took in had to be something that wasnt noisy,

Im guessing that someone took in something that was literally all singing and dancing.

I have told Evie that she cant take in anymore cuddly toys, so she said what about a hard toy and I told her that she cant take one of those with her either.

strendon

Friday was the first day of Evies half term holiday...

...we decided to go to a trampoline park.

Everything was going well :)

We were jumping on the trampolines (I was exhausted after 10 minutes :)) and Evie was going on the bag too (its like a bouncy castle base that you can jump onto from a trampoline).

We went back onto the trampolines and then 10 minutes from the end Evie was crying saying that she wanted to go now...

...one of the marshalls came over to make sure she was ok, Evie told her that she had hurt the back of her knee.

They then got a first aider to come over to check Evie over (he got her to bend her legs, wriggle her toes and to bend her ankles.

Luckily everything moved ok.

He said that he though that she had stretched a tendon and for her to rest up for the rest of the day and if she was still in pain on Saturday to take her to the doctors to make sure that it was nothing more serious.

I had to sign their accident book too

After we got out shoes on we went upstairs to the cafe (Evie was able to walk upstairs so that was good) and she had a chocolate muffin and a strawberry slushy, and then we headed home.

We had some lunch and she was feeling much better.

I asked her every now and again about her knee and she said that it was better :)

So that was a relief.

We now have the rest of the week to get through...

y1 parents evening cords and jumping

Yesterday I had Evies first year 1 parents evening.

There was table in front of the teacher with folders on and the timetable in order that parents can look at the English and Maths books first for 10 minutes.

She said that Evies letter formation isnt very good...

she doesnt start writing at the top of the page (she teds to start in the middle)

she doesnt follow instructions too easily

she is unco-ordinated (and wants me to get her to practice jumping jacks with her)

She isnt very good with numbers of objects..

There was a positive too that she is a sweet girl :)

I thin went to her classroom to look at her other books...

...it was quite funny seeing the comments that her teacher was writing in the books.

The funniest one was a maths thing she was doing and she had to put in certain numbers (7+3) that added to 10, Evie decided to use different numbers, (I cant even remember if the numbers she used added to 10 anyway) but the teacher wrote that she was supposed to use the numbers that they wanted her to use :).

When I went for my interview (the job that I got) I asked what the dress code was and the guy said smart/casual, so yesterday after I went in to fill out a whole load of paperwork (I still have the handbook to read) I treated myself to some grey cords.

And as its the first day of the half term holiday Im taking Evie to a trampoline place (there were only 3 places left for the 12pm time slot) I really wanted 11am but they were already sold out, I have booked online and we will have lunch in the cafe upstairs after :).

phone call and interview #16

Yesterday I rushed back from taking Evie to school (sorted out my buts to take with me into town) and waited for my phone call.

The call came and the job is something that I have loads of experience with, so she is going to send my details through to the relevant team and I will have to see if they want to see me for an interview.  I told her about the interview I was having that day but I didnt mention the job offer.

I then went into town for my interview...

...the job is debt collection, to be honest I dont think that it is something that I will be any good at.  I didnt tell them that, but I did mention the job offer (especially as it is for the same company) :)  They did ask me if I would still do teh ther job if I got offered this one and I said that I would have to think about it.

I will have to see what they say :)

yipee

Yesterday I as in town and I got a phone call...

caller: hello is that Clare?

me: no, its Amber (thinking that they may want to speak to me anyway)

caller: oh ok sorry about that..

five minutes later...

caller: hello is that Amber?

me: yes

caller: oh sorry about earlier your number came up on our system first, congratulations we want you to come in for an interview :)

The only time they could make it was just before I am supposed to be having my HR phone call so I have pushed that forward an hour, and that means then that I can head to my interview after I have finished the phone call :)

Then last night while Evie was reading her book, I got another pone call :)

Offering me a job that I went to interview #15 for :)

I told the guy that I have an interview today anyway (as it is the same company that I have the interview today for)..

James had the cheek to say that it means that he cant do anything on a Sunday now so I pointed out that this job means no childcare costs :)

I have to go in on Thursday and fill in the registration bits, I have already put together the bits that I need to bring with me, I will then find out my starting date :)

There are lots of pros to the job like no childcare costs, and I can still go to things like book look and sports day, christmas show and school trips (if they chose me to be a helper) without having to use up holiday :)

The only con is that I cant watch her tap dancing lesson during watching week (and there are only 2 of those a year) and James will video it anyway :)

another HR phone call

Yesterday I got an e-mail from the HR lady that I spoke to a few weeks ago.

This time she wants to discuss the role, salary and my experience...

She is going to call me tomorrow (I wanted to get the phone call done before the school holidays start on Friday) so I will have to see what (if anything comes out of it) :).

dig into gap

After Evie got all of her spellings right the other week I thought that we were on a roll :).

So on Friday when I picked Evie up I looked in her bag and found the new list of words and at the bottom I saw that she had got seven right...

...all week we were already practicing the word dig, as that was the only word that she seemed to have trouble with.

She was still getting dig wrong together with into (her longest word so far) and gap.

She doesnt seem to have troubles with this weeks words (there are a few two letter words), so we will keep practicing as well as with sit too.

flu jab

As Evie is due to have her flu nasal spray done on Monday, I decided yesterday as I was in town to get my jab done (so as not to be too ill for Evies birthday).

I have also had my appointment through for Evies first Year 1 parents evening (its next Thursday), in EYFS the meeting was in one classroom and her work was in the other classroom, but from Year 1 onwards the meetings are held in the school hall and you get 10 minutes before your meeting to look at the maths and English work (again in the hall) and you go to the classroom to see her other work.

Evie cant come with me so she can stay at home with James and I will go by myself.

interview #15 and brown paper bag

I got to the interview, and whilst telling me the details of the job he said its a fixed 22 hours per week but you have to be flexible with your hours, some days you will need to be in for 7.30 am!

Woah...

...I told him that I thought the job was 5 hours on a Sunday, he then looked again at my form and saw that I was there for the Sunday job :) I thought that the recruitment company messed up again like they did with the location.

The job is to be on hand when a church hold their weekly meeting in case their are any issues and to clear up the room after and to arrange the rooms for the next day.

I think it went well and will find out by the end of the week.

Evie had a great day yesterday and came out clutching a brown paper bag :)

her brown paper bag with a purse, a wish, a friendship bracelet and a a square that she traced her initials into

you can see them closer here

Evie has her school photo taken today too :)

rupeviezel

Evie all dressed up for her fairytale off of the page day at school :)

looking forward to being a princess

We are going to put her hair up just before we go :)

I know what Im having

On Friday we got the menu for winter/spring lunches at school, together with an order from for the year 1 lunch that parents can have a lunch experience :).

The menu choice is sausage casserole or vegetarian sausage casserole and for dessert its iced sponge with sprinkles or a muller fruit corner yoghurt :)

Im going for the sausage casserole and the iced sponge with sprinkles so Im really pleased with the choice on offer :).

In Evies spelling test she got 10/10 so it definitely paid off getting her to practice the words that she was finding tricky :).

Of this weeks words the only word that she found tricky was dig.

I also treated myself today to a new shower gel from the Body Shop :)

I made the right decision

Yesterday there were discussions from the Mum helpers about whether they were going to dress up for Fairytale day on Monday....

...it seems the Mums that got picked are the same ones that were picked for Evies trip in Reception Year also.

One of the other Mums said that she got a "thanks but no thanks" slip in her daughters bag.

So Im glad that I didnt say that I couldnt do the interview on the off chance that I would be picked for this :)

spellings book

Since Friday I have been trying to get Evie to practice spelling the words that she has had trouble with.

So on Saturday we bought her a special book (while we were doing our food shop)  that she can practice her spellings in :)

it has yet to be decorated

some of the words successfully written

It has been hard work trying to get Evie to practice the words that she is having difficulty with, but we are determined to get her to do them after she has read her book when we get home from school.

spelling test

On Friday when I picked her up from school I eagerly looked in her bag for the next words that she needs to be able to spell and the results of Thursdays spelling test...

...I was hoping for just one correct word so was really happy to see that she had gotten nine right out of ten :)

The only word she got wrong was "sit".

She has a new list of ten words to learn but of the ten, four are words with "d" in and she always gets her "d" confused with "b".

So if she gets anything more than six out of ten I will be pleased :).

cakes and advent chocolates

On Friday Evies school took part n the worlds biggest coffee morning...

..LOL I even bought a tub with me so that I could get a couple of cakes for James & Evie :)

In reception year Evie was allowed to eat her cake in her classroom but from Year 1 they make the kids wait to eat their cakes :(  Evie had chosen a butterfly cake :)

the victoria sponge was for me, Evie had the brownie and then I had the cupcake yesterday

Yesterday we were doing our grocery shopping, and in the seasonal aisle I saw that they had advent calendars, so me & Evie chose one each :)

my one

Evies one

We have got to get one for James now (although he will not be having it! :))