yay! hols are booked!!

finally got the ferry booked today! i have been putting it off and forgetting and just not getting around to it since i decided to buy a car instead of a month in ireland, but now tis done AND i managed to save the price of the kids ferry fares, no not by leaving them behind, altho i am tempted, but by getting a deal with irish ferries!! woohoo!! looks like i am keeping the voyager until then at least.
talking of the voyager, had that into chrysler this week as last week i couldnt get the key to move in the lock, the ignition had siezed which is a common enough fault. tis done now and should last until we get back from ireland at least, which is good coz it is the perfect holiday vehicle.
gotta go up to school later as river had a letter home last night. the letter says that river acted dangerously, putting himself and others in danger with a chair. he says he was sitting on it as a lunchlady said he could, he was then told to move and when he said he could sit there it all kicked off. so going to see to dep head about that and some other incidences that have been happening, the cricket teacher taking the piss, a teacher threatening him and his nemisis that pretends to be mates with him and gets him into trouble.
i hate school and i wish i could home ed, but life is too short to spend all my time teaching them and to be properly educated you need structure with doesnt work when it adds me and my kids to the mix, so they are in school and i am at home. i was thinking about this yesterday when over with another ex-home edder. her child also asked to go to school as he knew he required more than was possible to get at home. i have heard all the arguments about how autonomous home ed is sposed to work, but it doesnt. at all. i was selfish keeping the children at home for so long when it clearly wasnt working. they needed to learn to read much earlier, they need to feedback from other children and a tinpot home ed group doesnt cut it.
i've been baking lots, made paulee a choclit mallow cake with double cream and raspberries for his burpday, made some choclit cinnimon merange and orange faery cakes which were divine with some lemon sorbet!
HFC (hatty fried chicken) tonight, my own secret recipe of herbs and spices coating freerange chicken legs and fried. served with greek salad and garlic mayo. i was going to make bread and butter pudding coz i have fancied it for ages, but dont have any stalish bread. never mind.
mauds babies have gotta be born soon, or she is gonna pop i swear it!! i have prepared her nest, aka a crate with some blankets and old towel in, put it in a shady corner of my room behind my clothes horse, i mean exercise bike ;o) also put her a litter tray in the ensuite and she has used both, so i dont think it can be far off now.
think the post has just come and with it (and a bit of luck) a letter telling me what i have to do to get my new washing machine, the other (which is only a year old!) has the bearings gone, so the insurance have said we can have a new one!! woohoo!! i just wanna wash me whites!!