Blogs
Welcome to the NEW Candis Blog feature. Meet Melanie and her family and keep up to date with her musings of family life as mum of seven.
Moving on
I'm really chuffed! Madison, who has been struggling to find permanent employment for the past two years, has finally found a permanent job. Although it is only 12 hours a week to start, I am hoping this will pan out for her and she can start to find her own feet. Meanwhile Kelvin is STILL awaiting an end to the long renovation of the cottage he's supposed to be moving into. The last h... Read more
Date Posted: 11/03/2010
Hectic holidays
We've arrived back from our Disneyland Paris break. While it was lovely, it sure wasn't restful! We left on Tuesday evening at 10pm, arrived at Dover by 4.30am and were able to make the early ferry crossing that meant we were picking up our park passes at 10.30am! Poor Pete had no sleep and was kept on his toes with the children excitedly running off in all directions. Needless to say th... Read more
Date Posted: 10/03/2010
Sticky end to the week
Last week whizzed by and I can't believe we are off to Euro Disney on Tuesday night. Even though I've only been back at work a week since half term, by Friday, I was frazzled. This was partly due to an incident that happened in the morning. I was set the task of sitting with a group of children, helping them to papier- mache over balloons. Blowing the balloons up was a feat in itself, an... Read more
Date Posted: 02/03/2010
Aquafit and Grapefruits
Well, this half term has flown by, yet again! I don't know where the time went. It was a blur of the usual cleaning, sorting and refereeing, with some lovely family time in between. The 15 or 20 minutes when we could all sit together and watch a family documentary without any sort of ruction was pure bliss - short-lived, but nonetheless, wonderful while it lasted. These moments were usually ... Read more
Date Posted: 26/02/2010
Euro Disney
I can't believe we're half way through half term already! It's been so nice catching up on all the housework and cupboard sorting that never gets done in term time. Pete gave the family a lovely surprise at the end of last week, by booking a short three-day trip to Euro Disney for us in March. Seeing that I was flagging a bit and because Callum turns 12 this August - when the "k... Read more
Date Posted: 19/02/2010
Counting down the days
I am now counting down the days until half term, as I'm definitely beginning to feel mentally frazzled. It's so funny, because before I went back to work, I used to be slightly agitated by the thought of the half terms - but now, I count the days down until I am only dealing with 3 children as opposed to 20-odd! There is the ever-present heavy snow forecast, but again, referring to the a... Read more
Date Posted: 12/02/2010
Sod's law
After the last few weeks of ups and downs, I was rather hoping that things would start to calm down a bit. By that, I meant no blown up appliances, no missing children, no beaten up children, no pieces falling off my car and no major teenage meltdowns. Well, we seemed to achieve all of the above and I was beginning to feel hesitantly upbeat again. We had the bumper repaired on the car and I no l... Read more
Date Posted: 10/02/2010
If it can go wrong – it will!
I awoke this morning with renewed vigour, and decided that this would be a good week. I had a particularly hectic day at work and looked forward to getting it over with. But no sooner had I stepped into the car than I heard a dragging sound, rather like I had run over an old metal dustbin. As I hadn't made it out of the car park, I stopped to investigate. The entire back bumper was just hang... Read more
Date Posted: 05/02/2010
School bully dilemma
I didn't have a good start to last week and, on Wednesday, I had yet another problematic and also sad day. Firstly, Callum took the bus back to our old village to meet me, as I was waiting for Mackenna's confirmation class to end. After Monday's incident, I wanted him where I could see him. Unfortunately, this happens to be the bus that 'Noo Noo Head' takes, along with Call... Read more
Date Posted: 03/02/2010
What a week!
What a week it's been so far! Yesterday, I was roped into working an afternoon shift as well as the normal day - and having run around like a nut all morning, I found I'd been allocated to the nursery part of the school for the remainder of the day. I was lucky not to stagger out tied up, with a feather in my hair! My goodness - I was spinning as many plates as I possibly could and came ... Read more
Date Posted: 29/01/2010
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