Hey im back !!!

Hi all
Sorry I've been away it's been total bedlam round here ... but that's nothing new . Well I've been reading some of my favourite blogs and the two main ones i read have this little gadget that can be added to your own blog that looks like a fridge magnet so give them a click and read theres plenty to keep you busy reading through .
One blog is becauseisaidso its written by a mum of 6 who thanks to the sale of a set of pokemon cards got a huge following and has written 2 books !! Her first is on sale now but the 2nd has only just finished .
The second is the mad white woman i can verify she is very much mad and white her name is kimmi and shes a wonderful friend to have .She is a very talented woman who makes all sorts of creative goodies so have a look .

The kids are being their usual self .Nicole has had a broken bone in her hand all due to a little bit of playfighting with sammy and Dans learning what the wonders of fresh air are since he got grounded . Oh the fun of teenagers ... yeah right !!!
Joshua is doing brill with his behaviour now hes in the school routine he actually eats most of his school dinners which he never touched in the first week and only had to see the headteacher once in the last few weeks .

I am trying to get back into my psp I hada bit of trouble making tags for a bit but i am hoping to get back into it soon as it is really good to see all the new work out there .
The horrors are back from school so off to sort them out take care all xxxx

It's snowed !!! ( and still is bleurgh )

Well the kids are happy it finally snowed . Not the horrible slushy stuff that lasts for an hour or so but the huge deep stuff that looks lovely on pictures but doesn't always bode well in real life . The kids were gathered round the radio this morning for the school closed notice . It was the only time they were quiet listening to all the school names and waiting for thiers to be called . The girls school has a website so we were checking that from 7 am to find out wether theyre closed or not . Finally at 7.50 they said schools closed and Dan couldn't go anyway as all buses are cancelled .So it's a " fun "day of kids wanting to go and get frozen then crying because they got snowballed but its ok when they do it to the others .
I cant complain really The elder two have disappeared to go over our local meadows to build a snowman !! its 8.49 and theyre doing that already they'll be back and moaning theyre cold soon enough so while they are im nice and warm in here and dont intend to go anwhere for quite a while lol
catch you later take care xx

Saturday rolls round too fast !!!

Well it's been another manic week .
Joshua started full time school this week ,I knew it wouldn't be a walk in the park as he has his own very forceful manner but I thought maybe once the routine starts he might get into the swing of it .How wrong was I ???? Lets say if I was competing on Deal Or No Deal the banker wouldn't offer me a penny for wrongness . He has sio far this week told the Headteacher " No I don't want to " He refused to eat in the dinner hall and just covered his ear ( Josh does not like noise and lots of people and freaks a bit ) so he was tyhen dragged down to his classroom where he teacher then tried to get him to eat he only ate when she fed him 6 mouthfuls of carrots and that was his lot . Friday same thing happened with the extra loveliness of him disrupting the class and spitting at the other children .Now this added to the fact i told the staff he was showing autistic traits the same as Nicole you would have thought they would have got the care programme in place for him but... NO !!! they would rather have him miserable and the kids in the class not liking him first .
Right rant over and back to normal programming ..... ( what is normal anyways ??? any idea ? and Astro any comments you may get bi**h slapped )
Sammy is her usual rat baggy self this week informing me she will be going to her mates til late in the week and when told different going into screaming rants why do 14 years olds do that is it pre programme Dan never tried argueing he just sulked from the age of 12 lol
Dan stayed out last night turned up an hour ago and said hi you got any money and wrnt out again ...Nice!!
Nicole has been up and down this week but she'll get there eventually or else !!!!
I managed to escape for a couople of hours today not doing much as i felt weird going to get a hot chocolate on my own people looked at me oddly so i thought better of it .
But ne and josh needed to be seperated otherwise it would have been in tears having a tantrum instead of him lol
I've got to get off here i guess .I don't really fancy the pile of washing thats turned up even though i did 3 loads today yuck !!
catch you all laters and take care xxx

It's friday already !!

Well it's been a busy couple of days with lots of stress and strife on some quarters but thats the joy ( ahem) of teenagers and little ones .
Yesterday Joshua (4 year old ) started his first morning of Infants school he was fine going in when it came to them leaving he sat on the floor and sobbed .The teacher asked me to come and get him out because he wouldnt move so i just stood him up asked what was wrong and brought him out . It turned out that he got upset because he wanted to stay and his name had to go on the going home list . But within a couple of minutes we had a little joke and he was fine . In between this I had a call from Daniel's (15) school to say he hadnt turned up so then once we had joshua we went on the hunt to the local town where he hangs out .Low and behold i found him with his mates the minute he saw me he walked off with his mates now hes a bi lad hes 6ft and so his legs are a lot longer then my little legs so running after him was not going to happen .So after hunting a bit more I waited at home calling his mobile every few minutes which he conveniently had turned off and sat fuming thinking of how many horrible tortures i could bestow on him . He finally turned up looking sheepish and said he was sorry and we made an agreement he would lose his phone and bus pass and would be took to school by us . That was going to be the end of it No !!!!! His friend knocked to ask if he was going to youth club with which i said no chance at the same time i was getting joshua to bed so that took presidence with that he walked out . So i rung the youth club after a little while and said if he turned up ring me as im really worried about him she was good and rang us and in the time he was there chilling out she sorted out a motorbike repair course to leep him busy and some other bits . The womans great she understood where i was coming from straight off . Sammy (14) has left the house to go for a weekend sleepover ( peace and no rows woohooo - damn did i think aloud again? ) and Nicole (12) is finally quiet watching the coaps so me and the biggest kid of the lot ( cheers for that astro ) might get an hour or twos quiet before Dan gets back and then Josh will be up at 5.30 !! unhuman hour at the weekend yuck!!!!
Its still icy out the temperature is -2 C not nice at all I hate the cold yucccck .
Thats enough rattling for now going to get a nice warm cup of tea and get ready for some rubbish on tele
take care all bye for now xx

Thought I'd Try This Blogging Lark

I dont actually know what i'll be writing in here yet but here's a start .
I'm Amanda I live a pretty up and down life with my absolutely loony family .( Hence the name of my blog ) There are 4 of them although a good friend of mine reminded me that number 5 is a grown up version . ( Cheers for that one hun love ya xx !!)
Its been an odd day today a few less rows between the kids as my 15 year old went to college today so that was one out of the house woohooo !!! ( did i say that out loud oooops !!)
so it left the 14 12 and 4 year old to fight I mean annoy the hell out of each other for the rest of the day .
We had snow this morning but by 11 o'clock it was gone which cheered the dog up no end as she hates the cold and refused to go anywhere at first . It certainly put a spring in her step
so now it's all gone and everythings wet and slushy and the kids are fed up because they want a snow day tomorrow instead of school ( anyone would think they hated school i think its just because they love me sooo much they want to be with me all day !!!! PAH ) The truth being like most teens and pre teens they just want to lie in bed nice and warm until lunch time and then moan because most of the days wasted and theyve got nothing to do . Roll on bed time is what i say. The chrstmas breaks been too long for them and they've been bored senseless since boxing day . Even though there have been day trips and stuff to do the usual dolcid tones of " I'm Bored " and" How many days til school? " have still been going round . Followed by my crys of " How many loads of washing have you been hiding in your room ? " and " Seriously have you really worn all these clothes in three days ? "
Anyway .... I've just spied my 4 year old little monkey climbing under the bed with his sisters make up case so i better go wrestle that off him before its a renactmentof a circus with plenty of clown paint bye for now xx