When it rains....

The weather yesterday was what i would consider typically English, i woke to glorious sunshine, by dinner time i would describe the weather as a monsoon. It came down for an hour really heavy, flooded everything in sight, then after an hour was glorious, (repeat as necessary all day from this point).

It was during one of the more epic monsoons during this day that it happened! Smallest, wet from our dash to safety from the car, climbed the stairs and fell putting his teeth through his lip. Joy oh Joy! The ensuing debacle would have been funny, maybe, if it was on a sitcom or something but having it happen to me, well not so funny when your the one wearing the shoe. 3 hours up at the walk in center only to have to leave to collect our other kids from school without actually being seen.

I woke this morning took a look at his lip and thought shit I'm going to have to take him to the Dr this morning. So to the doctors we went, who then sent us to the accident and emergency department, at this point i was absolutely pissed! Last time i went to the A & E the waiting time was 6 hours. Lo and behold we were in and out within half an hour, 1 nurse, 1 Jr doctor and a pediatrician later and we were on our way home, sporting a clean but really fat lip and a enormous bottle of anti biotic syrup. Thank you whoever was listening to my prayers, today was a significantly better day than yesterday.

Lovely neighbours...

We had new neighbors move in down the street quite a while ago now and although to begin with they were wonderful, quiet,considerate etc, the last 2 months they have been the neighbors from hell. This morning they woke me at half past one in the morning swearing and shouting, it appears to be a regular thing as last Saturday they were still playing loud music at 3 in the morning! ARGGHHH! Why do some people care only about themselves, i know they don't know alot of us well in the street but what the hell happened to Common curtesy? I've always gone by the creed to treat others how i would wish to be treated, it's a damn shame no one else seems to give a shit.

Summer heat

It is scorching, 7.05am and it is scorching, how can that be so? I'm living in England; the land of weather inclement, obviously mother nature has got her wires crossed somewhere. We were actually hotter here than in Mexico city yesterday, or so the weather girl on my local radio station informs me. On the upside my vegetable garden is thriving, my pumpkin plants are making a bid for world domination i think, they are absolutely enormous, i had no idea when i planted them that they required so much space to grow. Note to self: when planting pumpkins next year give lots and lots of room!

On a totally unrelated note, there is only two more weeks until my children break up for the school holidays, how on earth has that come around so quickly again? This year they have seven weeks and 3 days off too. My husband is working most of it, and i have a decided lack of funds to do days out with them. Although truthfully it's a real struggle to take all 4 of them out on my own especially as i don't drive.
Better start my prayers, the first item on the list will be to pray for inner serenity i think!

half assed up date.....

As the title suggests that's exactly what this is...I have been obscenely busy although when i think back i can't recall exactly what has been eating up all my time. I started an educational course, re landscaped the back garden, tiled the kitchen floors, got smallest into a nursery, potty trained smallest (although this is still under development), and help eldest prepare for this years sats oh yes and i went on holiday. Looking at that made me remember what i have been doing! So yes i've been busy and i let this slide Oops!

Over a month again, in fact it's nearly been two!! Christmas went off without a hitch, the children were suitably impressed with Santa's leavings. My birthday has been and gone 27 now, i feel older somehow though almost as though i have lived twice my years. And as per my previous entries i am up reeaallllly early smallest child is upchucking! Don't feel to sharp myself truthfully. Add that to the sick in my hair, hmm lovely.

A little while later.........

So it's been a while almost a month, Christmas is done for everyone now, thank goddess. The decorations and tree went up not long ago. All I've got left to do is plan my yule ritual, not entirely sure what I'll be up to yet. On a completely different note there's a new shop opened near me called spell casters, yep an honest to goddess witchy shop i was so excited when i went in yesterday, they've got candles, dowsing pendulums, tarots cards, incense, the works. It was lovely, i hope they do a brisk trade and stay open it would be a real shame to see them close. Ok things to do and more things to do, hopefully I'll do another entry before yule!

snow glow.......

It snowed in the night here last night,and at about 5am this morning the light from my window woke me, I thought it was later than it was. When I came down stairs I looked in my back garden and there is about 1/2 an inch of snow, the luminosity of which woke me this morning. I didn't mind getting up though as i had a little peace before the children woke for the day.

up early again............

For the past couple of days my smallest has been getting me up around the hour of 3am, we've got up this morning at 3.45am and he is burning up, looks like there's a reason he's been getting up so early he's been coming down with something all week. He's lying in front of the fire at the moment feeling sorry for himself, hopefully he'll get better soon as I'm going out with friends Friday night.

My Altar......

.....Is slowly coming together. I've been hand crafting my items one at a time. Those that i have not hand crafted have been salvage from charity shops and other household items. Even if i do say so myself it is looking pretty special. My god and goddess have been molded from polymer clay by me, my book of shadows has hand made paper ethically sourced, the cover is a reused piece of cardboard from packaging that i was recycling, the wand i crafted myself from a piece of hazel deadwood, i cut a spiral in all the way to the handle. I've yet to set the piece of quartz in the top though. The altar cloth is an old piece of black cloth that i have embroidered with gold thread, my witch stones are riverbed stones that i have found on my walks with my children through the country side, painted with acrylics and varnished, they are beautifully smooth! My main expense was my tarot cards, i picked out the druid craft tarot, these are actually my third set now, and my only complaint is that they are overlarge for shuffling. The images though are wonderful, they really speak to me, and are so beautifully detailed. Just when you think you've made a good study of them your perspective shifts and you can see more detail than before, they are a joy to work with.

I did my self a reading with them last night the general question or ask of the reading was for guidance in my spiritual life. I did myself a pentacle spread, it follows;

1. Fire/intuition; 8 wands reversed. A shift of attitude is needed. 8 is the number of successful magical work.

2. Water/feeling: 7 wands reversed: Struggling with other peoples objections. Magic , spirituality and research.

3. Air/Thinking: Queen of cups. A woman who is fully open to the qualities of the goddess.

4. Earth/sensation; Cerrunos (the devil) The dragon of newfre (life force) awakens within you. Take care to integrate and channel this force.

5. Spirit; the magician: creativity, life force, empowerment.

Overall a pretty good reading i feel.

Autism.........Again

My daughter has autism and is kind of mid spectrum, which means she needs more help than is viable in a mainstream school and attends a special school for children with autism. After recent concerns voiced by his school middle T has to go for assessment, how crappy is that? Actually it's more than crappy it just plain sucks!

So............ i really need to stop having the pity party, however as my husband says; if they didn't have these odd character flaws, they wouldn't be our children they'd be someone else, very Zen of him i think.

Nearly there......

The last week in my house has been a nightmare thanks to fireworks, yep while many people enjoy this time of year my dogs decidedly do not! We have had one dog whining consistently and another trashing everything in the house, getting defensive when he's told off, sicking everywhere, it has been an absolute joy. I wonder however if many children today even know about Guy falkes , and his attempt to blow up parliament? My 8 year old certainly doesn't and if people are no longer aware what the holiday is about doesn't that make it defunct? Or perhaps for many, it's just an excuse to burn rubbish, let off fireworks and get obscenely drunk. Lovely just what we need another excuse for people to be idiots like there weren't enough already. The photo is a firework i caught in mid burst from a professional display, which by the way i don't mind, they time their events reasonably (there's no 1am eruptions.), they are done with all the correct safety equipment, and you know weeks in advance to prepare for the discomfort of your animals and/or disruption of your childrens sleep.

Ok i'll get off my soap box now.

Samhain......

I went to a party at my sister-in-laws house, it wasn't an adult party though alas!

The house was full of small and not so small children, which considering that my sister-in-laws youngest is 13 and the youngest child there was 17 months it was quite a collection of kids. Goodness knows why she did it, crazy to have a house full of kids when yours are older, but I am thankful she did. For if she had not it would have been up to me to do the party.

<>, That was a close call.

Blah Blah BLah BLOO.....

so random things today, Husband is off, I'm going shopping later, we're up early again, it is absolutely freezing and I'm currently watching the cramp twins on cartoon network with my two smallest children. My new knitting project is coming along nicely, I'm doing a bolero for my daughter. The back is almost done i started it yesterday.

On a new note: I hate this time of year, people should only be able to buy fireworks if they have a permit, these permits should be priced at 100 pounds a piece, which would pretty much make it that only the big displays would buy them, not every tom, dick and harry off the street. There would be no-one setting off fireworks in there back gardens upsetting the neighbors animals, children couldn't buy them and do injury's to themselves, other people or animals, it would make this whole time of year better and safer for everyone i think. I mean for goddess sake i went into tesco yesterday, they're selling them buy one get one free as if they were frickin' groceries. Tesco aren't the only offenders though our co-op and quite a few others are just as bad.

The first snow...

Yesterday we had our first snow, not just a little mind you, it was coming down in enormous flakes and quite sharply. The only thing that kept it from sticking was because previously it had been raining and the temperature had not dropped enough to turn the wet ground into icy ground.

Snow in October? Hopefully this is not a portent of things to come. Half term is going along quite nicely/ quickly it will soon be time for the children to be back at school, only 4 more days, not that I'm counting.

Henry the hedgehog...........

I am the caretaker of 6 cats, 4 kids, 2 dogs, 1 rabbit, 1 husband, and now 1 hedgehog.
Yep that's right a hedgehog. I'm thinking that with numbers like these it officially makes me the resident estate crazy lady. I'm following in my mothers footsteps she used to keep silky hens in her shed, she was the crazy chicken lady of Newstead. Lol.

My dog found him/her in the garden and tried to eat it, (my dog is not exactly smart), every time he went to pick it up it spiked his tongue, but he wouldn't stop, until i went out to see what all the fuss and yelping were about. I had a hedgehog covered in bloody slobber and a dog with a pierced tongue. The hedgehog was fine, he's currently living in my recycling box eating my cats cat food until we're sure he's ok. We're putting him in the woods at the back of our house tomorrow, he seems no worse for wear for his ordeal. However the dog is mopey and nursing a sore tongue, will he have learnt from this ? Probably not, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Moon magic

the moon full date was the 14th of October but this morning when i got up it was beautiful, i looked outside and the garden was awash in silver. At first i thought that it had snowed in the night the glow was so ethereal. Seeing as though i didn't really celebrate two days ago, while my children and the rest of the world slept, i sat in my garden amongst the silver moonlight with my big fluffy cat and my two wild dogs, i lit my silver candle rubbed with sage, and i thanked the god and goddess for my blessings. Although sometimes with the hustle and bustle of my daily life i forget and sometimes things get a little stressed, this morning i took stock and realized that i really do have a lot of things to be thankful for. (not least the car going through it's mot first time; my apologies my goddess in future i will have faith!)

things to do............

.............and places to go, it's my hubby's day off today and as per usual these days are crammed with things to do, They tend to build up in the week when I'm alone as my toddler is a terror, at least when the other half of my partnership is at home he can occupy smallest and i can get stuff done.
We have to take the car for it's mot today although it's not due until next week it gives us a week or so to get the work it needs done on it, it would be too optimistic to think it was going to pass straight away no car we have had ever has, I may as well pray for a washing fairy to come in and do my household washing every night while I'm in bed.

Trust me the latter scenario is more likely.

Why?

Why does middle t insist on getting up so early? Right now he's lying in front of the fire ASLEEP. Yep you read it right he's asleep, he got me out of a nice warm bed to come down stairs and go to sleep. Funny little bugger. We are currently watching Quest on cartoon network for those of you sans kiddie crew he's a mercenary who hates everything. So to paraphrase him

mornings?........I hate mornings!

Poorly.....

Middle T and i are ill. Not sure why but whenever I'm ill one or more of the children is ill with me. Is this a blessing or a curse, well it's a blessing because i don't have time to mope when I've got a sick child, their comfort takes precedence over mine, so I just get over it. On the other hand he may be well in the next couple of days but it takes me longer to get well as i can't get the rest i need.

We haven't been for our walk for nearly a week now, hoping that everyone is well for Sunday, and the weather holds as we're heading to Hanchurch woods.

Yet again i'm going insane............

It's that special time of week again, Sunday evening and I've just about reached my tolerance level with my kids. I'm not at all sure how i got through the 6 weeks holiday, i feel that it was very much ''needs must''. However today i don't have to as they're all at school tomorrow tee hee...small things and all that. So I'll hopefully do a better job with the blog tomorrow, when I've got a little head space.