Mayhem and madness

Another successful kids birthday done and dusted.

The young master 8 has now celebrated with 14 of his nearest and dearest! We had 15 kids here for party games, food and cake. I thought I was so organised with prizes, loot bag goodies and having got the food sorted that come party day I realised I didn't have a cake nor time to make one.

I ended up buying some goody gum drops ice cream, turning it out on a plate, icing it with loads of chocolate icing and sprinkling it with good old M&M's before refreezing until candle time. It was a real hit but a bit embarassing when one mum asked for the recipe based on her kids report of the cake!

The weather was dodgy but we managed to get out for a swim. i drew the short straw and ended up in the (icy) pool swimming with the kids with Steve on lifeguard duty. Very stressful 30 minutes of kids sinking and me rescuing them and then trying to convince them all to get out before we turned into popsicles.

All children were safe and accounted for by pick up time, Matt was happy and we were exhausted - but nothing that a stiff drink couldn't cure!

Uni starts to tomorrow so I am trying to get everything organised for that. Currently grappling with forms for the student loan. Now, I believe I am an intelligent woman but you just about need a degree for filling in government forms! Hopefully by tonight it will be in one of the three envelopes they sent me with the three different mail outs of different forms and then they can do with it what they will.

With the start of uni and work, my "holiday" comes to an end. I can't understand where the last three months have gone. The rest was good but I have got horribly lazy and wonder how I am going to cope with being a full time student, working one or two nights a week (and one Saturday per month) as well as being chief cook and bottle washer to the family! Well we shall see.

I started a movie club in my last week of holidays. Currently I am the only member, but so far it is an extremely fun club. The purpose of the club is to attend movies while they are still in the cinema and then discuss over a wine afterwards. The discussion part will be much more lively when there is another member or two involved. Currently it just looks like a sad, half-cut woman talking to herself! I went to see "Death at a Funeral" and thoroughly enjoyed it - I laughed like a hyena most of the way through. The only thing about attending a 10.30am session of the movies is that most of the other 10 people in the theatre are senior cits whose hearing has seen better days - and they insist on telling each other what the character in the movie is thinking, or what is about to happen, and of course the only person who can hear all the comments is me. However despite these little setbacks I believe my movie club has good potential and is much less time consuming than book clubs.

Enough procrastinating though, I must away and continue my uni prep and form filling and mourn the carefree days of my holiday. I'm not too depressed though becaause the husband and I are going away sans children next weekend to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary.