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We have been on a bit of a money saving drive at the moment after i realised that you do actually have to pay for the things you buy on the credit card and it is real money!
We ahve been trying to find ways of entertaining the children for free which isn't easy when you live in wales and it rains all the time.
The latest brain wave was kite flying. We didn't have an expensive one, just a plastic one that i got for a couple of quid which says it all really.
We went up the biggest hill we could find and nearly got blown away by the wind. I had to stay in the car because of course i couldn't leave the baby alone!!, so i left my husband and son to it. They soon got bored of the kite hitting the floor all the time and it was really cold so my husband had a brainwave.
So there we were the four of us sitting in the car on top of this windy hill flying a kite out of the window.It worked quite well to begin with and then it hit the windshield and got stuck in the window wipers.
While we were arguing about who should go out and untangle it we got a few looks of disgust from a few hikers who went past who were braving the winds with their big rucksacks and wearing shorts!!
You have to ask yourselves who out of this picture were the stupidest???
Any way i think we will have to leave the kite flying for a bit.Bike riding was a bit hairyas my son only has limited control and can't use his brakes. He keeps heading towards the water or wall or what ever danger is lurking beside the bike path. He cycles for about five minutes and then gets bored and i end up pushing the bike back. Walking is good excersise but again i end up pushing the pram and my son on hi8s buggy board and he isn't small for 3.
Roll on the summer when we can go to the park and have picnics. At least that is the idea although the last time we went to the park, he tried to walk opver the monkey bars and i had to go and rescue him.Perhaps i am an overprotective mother and i should just let him get on with it. My husband had broken his ankle and his arm by the time he was my sons age.and that boys will be boysI know the accident and emergency department is free but i think that is pushing it!!

P.s we wnt on holiday to devon which was wonderful and i am pleased to report that the roof box stayed on and the motorway stayed underwear free.

I cannot believe it has been so long since my last entry, time seems to have flown since christmas. Let me think, we had a fab christmas, my hubbie made christmas dinner for us and it was brilliant. He doesn't eat vegetables though so i had to fib to ryan and tell him that daddy is allergic to them in case he tries to get out of eating them too!!We had new years at home, just us and you know you are getting old when you find it a pain staying up till 12 o clock because you know the children will be up early and you have already been up since the crack of dawn.
Katy was christened in january which was wonderful and we had alovely partry after except for the kids changing around the flags that tell you what the different foods are and ryan and his little friends sticking their fingers in the christening cake.
I dug my high heels out for such a special occasion and with in fifteen minutes remembered why i had buried them at the back of the wardrobe.My feet were killing me which ended up in me walking like a duck. I thought no body else would notice until my friendly kindkly informed me that i was walking like a man in drag.
My husband has gone away for work this week which has brought the old my life is harder than yours arguement back to the fore.He claims that going away on a course is hard work while i say that looking after two children doesn't compare to his few hours training and then a totally free evening to sleep/eat your dinner in peace/watch tv /go to the gym etc....We always have this arguement.I sometimes wonder if he thinks i stay home all day eating chocolate and having my nails done.He hasn't been o his own with the two children yet as i am scared at what disaster will ensue. You should see the palaver when i go for a bath!!Still i have missed having somebody here to talk to. Kty had wind last night and screamed for two hours solid.Ryan didn't mind though, he had free reign of the computer and could press whatever buttons he liked. Ihope he hasn't bought anything on ebay!
We are goingo on holiday ti devon in march hoorayy!! We are staying in a little cottage with an indoor swimming pool. I think it will do ryan some good to be out in the fresh air i am worried about how obsessed he is with computers and our dvd player. I don't want him to turn into one of those kids who is a allergic to fresh air and can't kick a ball about but knows how to kill zorg and get to level 5!!
I have also agreed to go to soul survivour with my husbands youth group in august.I was a bit apprehensive as i thought it might not be the best place for children but apparently they have lots of activities for the kids to do so now i am really looking forward to it.We are going to have to get a roof rack or trailer to take all our stuff on these holidays to fit everything.I am a bit dubious about this, i have seen all the films where the family is driving on the motor way and the trailer full of their suitcases goes past them in the next lane or we will get there and the roof rack will be missing.You retrace your steps to find your stuff all over the motorway and your bra attatched to the AA emergency phone.
Oh well i will worry about that when it happens!

I am having a bit of an image crisis at the moment.The weight they said would drop off by breast feeding has stayed stubbornly put and i have even put it on. I am now almost as heavy as i was when i was having katy grace. I think it must be a lie by the midwives to get you to breast feed, either that or it is something to do with the copious amount of chocolate i consume everyday. I never have time to do my hair and always look like i have been dragged through a hedge backward, i can't remember where my makeup or hair dryer is and i wear " comfortable" clothes ie tracksuit bottoms and a pair of two pound jeans i got from tesco. This is due to the fact that i always get stains on my clothes, the usual suspects being regurgitated milk and spaghetti sauce. I have promised my self that i will have my hair done in the new year to try and kick start me into being a person again and to remind my self that i am not just a mum.
We went food shopping yesterday and it was crazy..People were fighting over car spaces and the trolley collectors had to play referee.Christmas has the same affect as the fuel crisis, people go into panic mode and try and buy as much as they can. It is just one day when the shops are shut and even then you could probably find a spar open if you are desparate.You would think we were all heading down to our nuclear bunkers for a few years the way people were shovelling things into their trolleys and trampling over each other to get to the biggest turkey. I haven't seen such blood shed since the last Next sale in tow We can't talk though. We spent £178 and that was just food for two adults and one child!!
Getting it all in the car was a bit of a nightmare with the two car seats in the back and the pram in the boot.It was like playing tetrus.Ihad so much stuff piled in my lap i couldn't see out the windscreen.We played the usual game on the way home of one of us shouting at ryan to keep him awake and one of us rocking katy graces seat to get her to sleep.
I am really excited about christmas now although the battery charger for our very expensive camera just broke and we are having to revert back to the disposable ones.
We are not going to my mums for christmas lunch this year but steven is cooking.He does most ogf our cooking anyway as grilling fish fingers is as far as i can go,but he does tend to get really stressed and so there will probably be alot of shouting and banging of pots coming from our house tomorrow and a couple of sos calls to my mum on how to cook a parsnip.
We haven't had any carol singers yet and i am really glad.Last year a few vengeful carol singers kicked our ntl box off the wall because i wouldn't answer the door. To be fair i had a peek out of the window and they looked like a bunch of pre pubescent boys who just loved the fact they had a legitimate excuse to knock on peoples doors a\nd ask for money. Where have all the cute little carol singers gone.The same thing happened at halloween and at bonfire night when i was stopped outside tescos by two teenagers with a pillowcase wearing a mask and asked penny for the guy.
Perhaps i am just scared of tennagers which isn't much good as steve wants to be a youth worker,plus i will have to learn to deal with them when ryan and katy grace start bringing them in when they get older. Ryan is starting to sound like a teenager already. He likes to say its not fair and huff alot which i seem to remember doing alot when i was youinger .
Ah well i should enjoy christmas with them while they are young,before i have to drag them out of bed and spend thousands of pounds on the latest x box. Isn't it lovely to still believe in santa.

Katy Grace had really bad wind last night and was screaming her head off, a sort of un natural high pitched screech designed to have parents tearing their hair out. I was sent out for gripe water in the end which shows how desperate i was because our local shop is the type to be surrounded by spotty hooded youths drinking white lightening and generally looking menacing. I just put on my don't mess with me f ace and marched past. I am ashamed to say that this is the same technique i use when being accosted in town by some one waving a clip board and it generally works.
The gripe water seemed to work but when i aarrive home i was met by steve saying NO MORE CHILDREN NEVEr AGAIN.. NEVER. At thast moment in time i could see where he was coming from but i have to say i would be distraught if i didn't have any more. I suffer from the only child syndrome where you want a really big family. I kind of imagine it to be like the waltons.... goodnight john boy etc...... but i am probably way off and would spend most of my time making up bathroom rotas.
Anyway she slept in our bed last night but kept waking up everytime her dummy fell out. It is like japanese water torture, just when you have fallen asleep you hear the click of the dummy hitting the pillow.
I am starting to think that ryan has an abnormally large head, everytime i try and take his jumpers off they get stuck and i end up having to yank them off which he doesn't like. He is starting to not not want to wear his jumpers anymore which is a bit worrying because life is hard enought without having a phobia about jumpers. I have tried stretching them but to no avail. I wonder if they make jumpers with extra large head holes, now there is a money making idea, perhaps i should patent it.
Had a bad time getting ryan into school today. I had to carry him in and he wouldn't even take his coat off, he has never been that bad not even on the first day of school. I could have brought him home but he is a sly dog and i think he would catch on quickly that having a paddy would mean he could come home. I had to run out with the poor teacher rugby tackling him so he didn't follow.
At least tomorrow is the last day. I can't believe christmas has come so fast, we found out i was pregnant on boxing day last year and this year has flown by in a haze of morning sickness and baby mania.Ihave gone one whole year without drinking wine. How have i held on to my sanity?? Ask my husband and our bank account!!!!

Katy grace has been in hospital for the last few days with broncholitis. She was really bad on saturday and spent all day and alot of the night screaming crying. I had to ring the emergency dr which i hate doing. I spoke to a call handler and told her everything then i had to wait for a nurse to call me back and explain it all again and then a dr called me back and i had to explain everything to him. He then told us to go down the hospital to see him. So off we went at six am after calling my poor mum over to watch ryan. The gp then said we had to go to the paediatric assesssment unit upstairs where we saw another dr and explained it all again. It was really busy,apparently there is a bronchitis epedemic and we had to wait five hours to see the consultant.The people in the bed next to us had a 15 week old baby and gave up and went home.
Eventually at 1pm we got to the ward, alot of nurses recognised us from the millions of times we have had to go in with ryan and his chest and his eye. I hope they don't think i have munchausens disease.!!! We were so tired it was scary,luckily katy grace slept alot of the afternoon only there was just the one bed so i ended up sleeping on the floor, but by then i didn't care. Ihave been tired alot recently, i mean you are always tired when you have young children but i have been exhausted!! I am very worried about breastfeeding, I keep forgetting to put my boobs back in. On saturday i nearly opened the door to the postman with everything on show, and i live on a main road.Being tired makes you forget the simple things.
Luckily they let us out today so steve and i have been packing presents while ryan was at school. I am a bad packer, if it is not a square box i panic. I also end uo using way to much paper so that a cd ends up looking like a hard back book. I think i do this to rebel against my step0father who measures his paper to make sure he doesn't use a centimetre more than necessary. The up side to this is that no one can ever guess their presents before they open them.
Ryan has decided that he doesn't like wearing trousers anymore so his helping his dad make noddy cakes in his pants!!!!!!!!!!

Omigosh i am old.I know what you are thinking, 25 isn't old but today i had to come out of top shop because the noise ie music was giving me a headache!!Iremember subjecting my mother to hours in topshop when i was a teenege, trying to convince her to buy me the latest cool thing or that this skirt wasn't too short. Iremember her saying the exact same thing to me about the" rubbish they call music" but i at least expected to last a couple of years yet. What is next... will i start buying thermal knickers from littlewoods?? Still at least i have finished my christmas shopping. I THINK I HAVE GONE OVER BOARD AGAIN,. Every year i tell myself i will buy less and concentrate more on the true meaning of christmas, but it is v hard for a self confessed shopaholic like me who doesn't need much excuse. It is katy graces first christmas so it is extra special.
I am in one of those moods again today where my nerves are totally frazzled and i feel like i could scream my head off. Since ryan started school i feel like i have been rushing around like a whirling derbish.It hasn't helped that i have had to be at the drs three times this week.I am so short tempered it is frighnening. I think ryan can sense this like an animal can sense fear and is choosing this time to train for the nagging olympics. Still my husband steve is off on hols for a week now so i am holding on to that and hoping i can relax a bit then, although i seem to spend more time tidying up when he is home. I feel like life is rushing past a bit but i don't suppose you can expect anything else with two children, to be honest i prefer it to sitting around and doing nothing. i think i just need more sleep.
Apparently one of my favourite programmes Blessed isn't on tonight to make way for some programme about sport!!!! It is about a c ouple with two young children and how they are not coping with life.Most people think it is pants but i can relate to quite alot of it so i find it hilarious.
I have been havingh a debate with my mother over whether The Simpsons is suitable viewing for my three year old. He has become obsessed with them lately, especially the Mr Plow episode I was of the view that it is harmless as he doesn't really understand what is going on any way but he has spent today going around saying Kiss my asphalt which is a line from Mr Plow which i feel discredited my arguement some what!!!Oh what shall i do??? there is only so much cbeebies one person can take..

It was Ryans first nativity play yesterday.He was a donkey in the stable. I am glad they did a traditional one. My friends daughter needed an alien costume for her nativity and another one was going to be a lobster!!!He did quite well actually i was convinced he was going to start crying or try and climb over the people in the front to get to me. The only thing he did was rip his tail off and try and eat it so all in all it think it went quite well.
Ryan has got a cold again., no sooner does he shake one cold then along comes another and he has asthma so that makes it worse. Of course he then passes it along to his sister. She is four months old and has had four colds already.I am trying to get him to cover his mouth with his hand but i think i am fighting a losing battle. I am spending so much time at the drs surgery i think i qualify to get my own chair. Our surgery is like the place that time forgot. They insist on putting one receptionist on the desk despite the que outof the door. You arrive ten minutes early for your appointment and by the time you sit down you are ten minutes late. Their tannoy system needs a bit of work too, you never know what name they are calling and wait till you hear them mumble something that sounds remotely similar to your name and walk into the drs room praying you wont walk in on someone showing an embarrasing problem to the dr. Saying that the last time i went the dr forgot to turn the tannoy off and all the waiting room was broadcast our conversation. Iwas glad i was talking about my sons chesty cough and not someone who had a bad case of venereal disease.I wonder if you could sue for that.
On a more festive note, does anyone know the etticette(i know ihave spelt this badly wrong) about sending christmas cards to your neighbours.We arre on polite hellos with both next doors despite tensions arrising from the car wars in our back lane, which i will have to go into at a later date.I can't quite remember their names so have just put our names at the bottom and the number of our house in case they have forgotten our names as well.Is this rude? ah well it's the thought that counts.. i hope.

I have decided to call my blog Ryan turn the tv down because that is the sentance that i seem to use the most in my life. Let me see, my name is suzanne i am 25 and i have 2 children. I have spent alot of this morning and the last 13 mornings trying to explain to ryan (MY 3 YR OLD)that you can only eat one chocolate out of the advent calender per day. He is not happy about this arrangerment and wants one advent calender per day.I am almost tempted just to get a bit of peace and quiet but my mother is a dental nurse and woe betide me if he ends up with any fillings.Ah well only ten days to go. Oh hang on a minute............. it is one of those calenders that has a count down to new year as well. Oh heaven help me.