I'm not here!!!

I've been a bit distracted lately and not blogged much - been watching I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here :-)

And I won't be blogging all week as I'm in Disneyland Paris with Little Prince and Best Friend :-)

See you when I get back
xxxx

Britain's Got Talent!

Yesterday I took Drama Teen for an audition for Britain's Got Talent!! She had applied for it online ages ago, and forgotten that she'd even done it!! The letter came last week inviting her and she was ecstatic :-) I let her have the day off school, as the audition was quite a long way away and we wouldn't have made it otherwise - naughty mummy :-) And Little Miss Sensible also managed to be there to meet us at the train station, which was a complete surprise to Drama Teen, you should have seen her face :-) First she just glanced at LMS and didn't recognise her then she realised who it was, squeaked, jumped up and down and tried to squeeze all the breath out of LMS :-) We had time to get some lunch then find the audition venue, and then go and do some shopping. It was lovely to be with both my girls, that was the best bit of the day for me :-)

After shopping we went back to the audition venue, and queued round the building for our turn. Most people in the queue had thought that as we had an appointment time that we would be able to walk straight in - trouble is we couldn't and it was cold and starting to drizzle! We stood in the queue, shuffling a few steps forward every 5 minutes or so for over an hour!! Drama Teen was ready to quit after a few minutes - just like her daddy she doesn't like to queue!! But we persuaded her to stay and give it a chance. When we had almost reached the door we saw the snack stand and I bought us all a packet of crisps - if I'd known they were £1 EACH I wouldn't have bothered!! Oh well we were tired, cold and hungry so we ate every last scrap of our expensive crisps!!

Finally we got inside the building, only to join more queues!! First to register and give in our signed release forms and show Drama Teen's passport. Then another queue to get a sticky label with her number on which was over 52000 - that's how many people they auditioned!!! Wow!! Then we were herded into a pre-waiting room and left to sit down, at least we had comfy chairs and it was warm - a huge improvement on the outdoor queuing lol.

Next we were moved to the 'holding area' which was the waiting room proper. There were TV cameras everywhere filming interviews with different acts, which was quite disconcerting as I do NOT wish to be on TV - never, ever, at all!!! We waited there for, what seemed like hours, before an assistant came over and FINALLY called Drama Teen's number, she and a group of others were next!! Under 16s had to take a parent or guardian into the audition with them, and so LMS accompanied Drama Teen, while I stayed in the 'holding area.' The group went to the exit door, but were then asked to return to some chairs and be filmed being called and walking to the exit!! LMS was much more nervous than Drama Teen, who was very laid back about the whole experience and had sat reading a trashy magazine while she waited!

When the girls finally returned, we made our way out of the venue and chatted about what had gone on. Little Miss Sensible said the cameraman was very smily about the audition. The assistant outside said "Wow that was fantastic" and LMS said she knew her sister could sing, but where on earth did that fabulous, belt it out voice come from?!?!

The tapes of the auditions (they were filmed) will be sent to London to be viewed and decide who goes further. We won't know if Drama Teen has been chosen until the New Year. Drama Teen was completely happy with her performance, and says she did her best - and that's all we can ever ask of ourselves and our children, that they do their best :-)

I am so very very proud of Drama Teen :-) She has overcome a LOT to get to the stage where she can WOW people at an audition, and I'm getting all teary thinking about how brave and fabulous she is. Well done Drama Teen and good luck - you are a beautiful young lady with a fabulous voice and deserve the recognition this show could bring :-) Mummy and Daddy are VERY VERY proud of you :-)

Bargains!!

After dropping Little Prince off at school, and then going back and taking his PE kit that we'd (well I!!) had forgotten, I went out Christmas shopping (again!!). I managed to get Little Prince's main pressie at Woolies with 20% off :-) I also got him three "walk in sleepers" which are fleecy sleepsuits, with built in feet! I am trying anything to try and get him to sleep through the night lol. They were on three for two, so I thought I might as well get him three, two Bob the Builder and one Tigger. He went to bed dressed as Tigger and looked so cute, I could just eat him up :-)

The DATE!!!

I just have to start off with an 'I told you so' to Drama Teen!!! The boy she has been claiming is 'just a friend' asked her out and she was thrilled. Today was the day of the dream date, me and Fraulein dropped Drama Teen off at the cinema, and even managed to get a peep at the young man in the process!! Which was the whole point of dropping her off, that and the fact there was no other way for her to get there lol. He looked a reasonable lad, no daft hair cut or clothes and fairly cute to boot. We left them to watch Ratatouille (not exactly a great romantic movie - but totally appropriate for a couple of 13 year olds). Then they were going to go to McDonalds and then walk over to Stagecoach, he is a member of that too.

Once I picked her up after Stagecoach I wanted to know all about it. She was obviously very happy and it was lovely to see :-) She watched the film with her head on his shoulder and his arm around her, and they held hands too, not sure Mr Messy will approve as he wanted them to sit at opposite ends of the cinema!! Young Lad bought a large tub of popcorn and large coke with two straws for them to share - isn't that sweet. Trouble is he hadn't checked with Drama Teen before doing this, because if he had he would have known that she doesn't drink coke lol. Still it was a very sweet gesture :-) And its a good job it was a HUGE tub of popcorn, because not only did Drama Teen manage to spill quite a lot of it down her front and all over the floor, McDonalds had a queue coming out of the door and they didn't manage to get any lunch before their Stagecoach classes!! Young Lad had already told Drama Teen he thought she was speacial (spelling isn't his strong point!) and today he told her she was gorgeous - and he is right. How come she believes him and not me, I've been telling her for years!! He also calls her his angel, although knowing his spelling skills its probably angle!!!

Aaaah love's young dream :-) They are now hogging the phone and will probably chat for hours - just like they did last night when I was trying to get through!!!

Today's waffling

Today started early - when will Little Prince learn to wake up at a reasonable time?? Well to tell the truth it was about 8am which is entirely reasonable, but I was still tired after all the driving and shopping I did yesterday so it felt earlier!! We went out to a lovely organic food cafe/farmshop for lunch and the only blot on the day was the obnoxious mother/grandmother combo sat on the table next to us!! They did nothing but complain (loudly) about how un-child friendly the cafe was (it was VERY child friendly, just didn't have child sized cutlery!!) and tell off the older child and complain about the mum's anniversary being ruined. I did wonder if it was the anniversary of her receiving her first broomstick!!!

Little Prince behaved beautifully (for once lol) and I felt like a very smug mummy :-) We did buy him a very nice, well made tractor toy from the shop afterwards as a well done, and he has promised to try not to break it!! Before that though while us grown ups finished our drinks (and Mr Messy finished his dessert) Little Prince went to play in the playground outside, we could see him through the window right next to our table and it was fully enclosed so we let him play. He and another boy and girl seemed to be on a mission to completely fill the slide with sand (much to the witchy mother and son's disgust - they had asked the cafe staff to clean the slide so darling boy wouldn't get dirty!! What are boys for?!?!) and they did a grand job. They then tried to clear the sand by sliding down the slide - how else would you do it lol?? I think we brought most of the sand home with us in Little Prince's shoes, socks, trousers and even underpants!!! He was totally grubby and had a great time :-)

Friday's Post!!

I've got a lot on at the moment and blogging is having to take a backseat. Although I'm trying hard to keep up to date, its harder than I thought!!

Yesterday me and three other mum's from school went to a huge shopping centre for some Christmas shopping, without the children. The dad's were on picking up duties - which as we didn't get home till about 9.30pm (we set off straight from school at 9am!!) was a good idea!! We had a lot of fun at the shopping centre, stopping every now and again in one of the many coffee shops to have a good natter and put the world to rights :-)

I managed to get quite a few bits and bobs ready for Christmas, but can't blog about most of them as they have already been sent to Father Christmas :-) Although I have posted a picture of a little Summer dress I got from a discount Monsoon shop - isn't it adorable?

It wasn't as hard as I had imagined to keep my 'diet head' on :-) I wasn't at all tempted by the cakes and choccies we kept seeing - I would much rather fit in my slimmer clothes thank you all the same!! I had jacket spud for lunch and when we had dinner at Pizza Hut chose the most healthy options I could - and hardly touched my pudding.

Weight Watchers Update

This week I've tried hard to stick to my Weight Watchers points limit. Mostly I've managed it - even with a trip to Frankie and Benny's!! And I've also cut right down on the diet coke, which makes me crave chocolate and sweet stuff and I'm drinking loads of water instead - much healthier. And the results speak for themselves FOUR AND A HALF POUNDS lost in a week!!! That's 5lbs down and 33lbs to go :-) I'm so happy :-)