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What a day!

07 Sep 2015 53 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: angry, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Email, First Day, Hacked, tired, Yahoo

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Well, first official day of term has been and gone, and I was looking forward to it soooo much!

So thanks to Yahoo Mail for stressing me out first thing in the morning!

I got up, and perused my emails over a cup of tea, or I tried to, but it wouldn’t let me log on… Looks like I have been hacked, or rather my email has been hacked.

So apologies if I haven’t been on your blogs or read posts today, I can’t get my email alerts! And if you direct messaged me then again, couldn’t access my mail box.

I contacted the customer services, as directed, and kept getting a message at the end saying they would contact me… on the YAHOO account I couldn’t access!!!!!

Stupid people!

Finally at 6.30pm, after contacting them a 3rd time, I got a response, and am still to get access to my account! It is so frustrating, I never realised how much I rely on my account. I have been advised to not use Yahoo as it has been hacked so much, so I have now changed my contact email on here to a gmail address instead.

Then I went on to think I need to change my email contact in many places, and I will have to start somewhere, so I was updating those… great fun on a Monday night when I have so much to do!

And as for school…

It was a wonderful day, I think!

We met our new children, with parents today for an hour, each session, morning and afternoon. I will never speak ill of children, they are all unique and special in their own way, but I can already see that the afternoon bunch are going to be an ‘interesting’ lot! Both sessions have a lot of language issues, but the morning ones were pretty calm, and got on with things. The afternoon ones, SHARING may be an issue!!! And very boisterous! Oh, and don’t get me started on possible special needs! And some are not even potty trained!

Tomorrow we will get them with no parents staying, so this will be the trying one!

The kids appeared to have a great day, and it was ended with their Dhol Drum lessons until 8pm… don’t know about them, but I am shattered now!!!!

Monday Minions

07 Sep 2015 27 Comments

by Ritu in Humour, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Humour, Minions, Monday

I am definitely capable of this one, what about you?

I find myself doing this to my kids, when they are waffling, then I realise I may have just agreed to something I so should not have!!!

And I’m pretty sure my Hubby Dearest does this to me a lot of the time, because we often have that conversation “You didn’t tell me that!”, when I know full well, I had been rattling on for half an hour about said topic!

Have a wonderful Monday Peeps!

Bump!

06 Sep 2015 24 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Back to Reality, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, New Term, School, Work

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Uniforms ironed – ✅

Bags packed – ✅

Lunches made – ✅

My clothes ready -✅

Alarm set – Ooh I must set that! Ok now – ✅#

Yup, I was back at school last week for training, days, but that wasn’t real… no, that was a peaceful school environment, with no children around… but as of tomorrow, term starts.

My children start a new era in their own lives. Lil Princess is no longer an infant, and will be a Junior now! And Lil Man starts Year 6, his last year in primary school! I can’t believe that… where did the time go? Before I know it, both of my kids will be in secondary school!

And I get to meet my new classes in Nursery officially tomorrow. It’s going to be a set of taster sessions this week, an hour or so, firstly with their parents, to settle them in, then we go in full on. Yes I have met them before, one on one, but this will be different, as they are actually starting… some children literally turned 3 at the end of August, so they will be teeny weenies!

I am anticipating plenty of blogger fodder from this, so I hope you will get to enjoy my experiences too!

Have a great start to the week everyone!

I’m definitely off to bed now for an early night!!!!!

He Did It!

06 Sep 2015 43 Comments

by Ritu in Children Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, First Match, Football, Lil Man, Proud, Soccer Mom, Winners, Winning

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that my son, Lil Man, has been in training with a football (Soccer, for my American Peeps!) team here, and this season, he has been selected for the actual squad! He is officially in the Under 11’s team!

Well, aside from a few friendlies that they played over the summer holiday, he hasn’t played a match, and unfortunately they have pretty much lost most of them.

But today was his team’s first official match, and they were playing a charity shield match, raising funds for Cancer Research.

They were hyped, it was a big un, as they got to leave with an actual trophy (or shield) today, and a medal each!

And you know me, I am NOT Soccer Mom! I do NOT do sport of any kind, aside from having to drop him off to training, but, I do try to be a good mum, and I promised, that come hell or high water, we would all be there watching him.

And so there we were, watching this 30 minutes each way game, 18 pairs of little legs running back and forth on a pitch much larger than what they were used to! My mum instincts were fighting to come out, I wanted to stop the match, go give them all rests, pick kids up as they fell and rolled around (yes the footy dramatics start at an early age!), but no, I was good. I reined myself in, and stood at the side line, not really knowing what to be shouting or what to say. At least I knew which side they were meant to be shooting at!

Offside rule? Nope, no clue! Yet these little ones are supposed to understand that already, their first match where it actually counts too!

He wasn’t on initially but 15 minutes into the first half, he was brought on, and played well.. I think he was Midfield… Excuse me, I haven’t a clue! They were even 2 – 0 up at this stage!

My Lil Super Player!

The half time whistle was blown, and everyone was buzzing! Yes, I admit, even I was kinda hyper… my son’s team was winning!

Lil Princess was there too, and missed the first half, as she was far too busy playing with a pair of Daschund puppies that were there with their owner!

By this time Granddad had come to fill his cheerleading squad, and Hubby’s brother and wife, so we had a nice little team of supporters, alongside all the other parents!

Second half, and he wasn’t playing to start with but was, again, swapped on 15 minutes in, and guess what… they actually WON the match! 5 – 0!!! A prouder bunch of Under 11’s (and parents) I haven’t seen!

An overjoyed bunch!

I’ll admit, it was more thrilling than I thought.. I may go and watch a few more… and hopefully the first match, the first win, is a sign of what is to come this season.

Here he is, medal proudly displayed (behind the shield!), and holding the special Shield!