phone calls and dreams

On Friday (after dropping Evie off - she started crying when we got there) I was sitting at home watching Kendra get all 10 stars and my phone started ringing, and on the screen it said that it was Evies pre school....

...to say that my heart sank is an understatement.  So I answered the call expecting to hear that they wanted me to come and collect her as she wont calm down.

Luckily for me it was just to say that they had lost the keys to their cupboard and they were ringing all of the mums/dads to see if someone had picked them up by mistake.

I checked my buts and I hadnt picked them up - incidentally they found them caught up in a little ones coat (they didnt say whos though).

When I went to pick her up she was snuggling her cloth and they said that she was asking to cuddle a toy that begins with "m" and they said that I could bring the toy in with her next time - so monkey will get to go to school with Evie ;o)  Although when I asked her if she wanted hime to go with her she said "no thank you"!

Then last night Evie was sleeping and she woke up crying and I heard her say "Mummy gone home" which is what they say to her at pre school when she asks where I am.

I do feel a bit bad that its playing on her mind that much to give her nightmares :o(

the lure of a kids milk

On Tuesday morning (following the oven almost blowing up - ok Im being a touch over dramatic) I told Evie that we were going to go and buy a new oven ;o)

I measured the space that our oven is occupying and looked through the ovens on Currys website and because there is a little storage area under the oven there is only one brand that will fit the area.

So we went to Currys and I found the ovens but typically they didnt have the one in there that I liked the look of (but I had written down the dimensions and the product codes) so I told the lady serving me and she found the product and said that they had plenty in stock ;o)

She tried to get me to buy their care package for £50 for 5 years (it includes 5 valets also) I said "no thank you" as the oven has a steam cleaning function on it ;o)  I had a look at the website and it says that I have 12 months to take it out if we change our mind ;o)

Now it came to delivery...

...I told her that Tuesdays and Thursdays work best for me as we have Tumble Tots on Monday and Pre School on Wednesday and Friday and typically they only deliver to my area on Wednesday, Friday or Sunday!  So I ended up opting for a Sunday delivery/installation.

It is being delivered next Sunday ;o)

So after we had finished I asked Evie if she wanted to go for a drink or go home and she said that she wanted to have a drink so we went into Costa and she had a kids milk and I had a gingerbread and cream latte ;o)  I wanted to try their sticky toffee latte but they had run out of the syrup.

I got us (or rather Evie) a bag of mini muffins and she ate all three of the double chocolate ones while we were in there!

I asked Evie while were enjoying our drinks what we should cook as the first thing in the new oven and she said bananas for monkey ;o)

Talking of Pre School Evie was crying again yesterday and she started crying again when we got there and one of the ladies picked her up when we got there and gave her a cuddle...

... when I went to pick her up I was told that she had been upset on and off and was clingy and that she might be coming down with something.

She was ok yesterday apart form doing a squidgy poop and we asked her if her tummy hurt and she said no it didnt and she seems ok this morning too.

pop goes the oven

Yesterday I turned on the oven to cook Evies dinner for her and there was a yellow flash and then it went pop!

I ended up frying some chicken nuggets for her but the coating got burnt so I took it off of them.

The oven still works (after I realised that the fuse had cut out and the oven hadnt completely and utterly died).

So this morning me & Evie are off to Currys to look at ovens - I have measured the space so know what our options are ;o)

first brought home picture

When I picked Evie up on Friday from pre school I looked in Evies drawer and found a picture waiting for me ;o)

I have proudly stuck it up on the cupboard wall ;o)

On Thursday I went into Iceland and bought a Exotic Meat Feast LOL the lady of the checkout told me to "enjoy my meal tonight" ;o)

I had an ostrich burger last night and it was nice allbeit with a stronger flavour than beef has, I was worried that I might want to bury my head in the sand but I havent yet but then I havent been anywhere near Evies sandbox in the garage ;o)

crying real tears

I woke Eve up (after putting her down earlier last night) and she was crying real tears saying that she didnt want to go because of the noisy ones :o(

I tried explaining to her that they are just like her and get noisy when they are enjoying themselves but she wasnt having any of it.

I have told her that we are going anyway and at the moment she is happily watching tv and eating some frosties.

I have yet to get her dressed in her school t-shirt.

I am hoping that I dont get the phone call today saying that she is too distraught!

I know that she will get used to it and she will have to when she starts school properly in a couple of years.

tired and whingey

Yesterday (all day as it turned out) Evie was tired and whingey from the moment I woke her up.

She was whingey and grizzly yesterday morning and when I kissed her goodbye at pre school she started to cry, one of the ladies gave her a hug and I got out of there before I could get upset too.

She then cried when I came to pick her up, and fell asleep on our way home.

I was hoping that she would feel refreshed after but she didnt.

I half expected her to wake up ill this morning but she is ok, but am wondering if we should try and get her to go to sleep an hour earlier when she has pre school the next day?

I will have to see if they have it in store

I was watching Im a Celebrity this morning and whilst fast forwarding through the adverts I briefly caught sight of an exotic meat feast on the sponsorship bit at the beginning of one of the advert breaks ;o)

It says on the website that you can order it online but I will have a look in store when I go into town probably on Thursday ;o)

So I am off now to check what room we have in the freezer ;o)

We had alligator way back in 2001 at Gatorland while on holiday in Florida, and as I recall it tasted a bit like chicken ;o)