Amazing......

They say that the ones with the least give the most don't they.  This has been proven true today. At work we had a non-uniform day for Children in Need.  We asked the children to bring in a silver coin in exchange for not wearing their school uniform. Most of our families are on a low income, many are single parent households and over a third of the total children in our school are on free school meals.  Money is tight in most households, especially leading up to Christmas. Even so we managed to collect £170 for the charity today.  How amazing is that!

The children are starting to get excited now, Christmas will be knocking on our doors before we know it.  My son's birthday is on Boxing Day too!  This year I've been very lazy and opted to buy many presents on-line.  As we both work during the day, I'm lucky enough to have my Dad living locally so I arrange to get my parcels delivered to him!  Dad is on his own now and gets very lonely.  You know, he loves having all the deliveries turning up at his door as he gets to speak to someone.  Some of the drivers he's on first name terms with and they stand and talk for ages with him.  Bless him.

Only 4 weeks left at work till we break up, where has the time gone.  It seems as if the older you get the fast the year goes doesn't it.  Although the children disagree - they say it drags!

Have a lovely weekend.

Sue x x x x

Puts things into prospective....

Some local children have just been put into care of foster parents.  Which, in its self is a sad thing to happen.  To be taken away from your parents must be very traumatic and distressing.

But not always.

Apparently, when asked how they got on on their first night away from their mum.  Their eyes lit up as they explained that they had a cup of tea at tea time, no in fact they had 2 cups.  Then they had sausages,
mash and baked beans for tea followed by a yogurt for pudding.  They went shopping in ASDA for new clothes....for the first time. They had a bath. They had clean beds to sleep in.

Little things most children would take for granted.

If you could have seen the smiles on their clean little faces it would have broken your heart too.

Sue x x x

Tick, tock......

I tell you, I'm not too impressed with this clocks going back and forward malarkey.  I hate the dark evenings, it makes me just want to curl up in bed under the duvet!

We had a lovely week away last week...in fact that's a big fat lie.  It was bloody awful.  It was cold, wet and gloomy. I came down with yet another cold and sore throat...which I am still trying to shake off.  3 lots of our friends have now fallen out - so you could cut the atmosphere with a knife.  We are playing piggy in the middle again and I'm sick of it.  We've shut the caravan up now for the season and hope that maybe things will calm down by next March as it could be a very interesting 2011.

The kids won again and last weekend I relented and we are now the proud owner of a new hamster - a little girl called Poppy.  They have promised me that they will help to clean her cage out as it makes me very wheezy....so we will see.  I have purchased some throw away face masks....just in case.

Feeling a bit down in the dumps at the moment, so I don't really have a lot to share with you.  Hope you are all keeping well and had a good Halloween.

Hope your week is going well.

Take care.

Sue x x x