normality reigns. in summer 2014 is a creepin' in.

After several weeks, during which I was either applying for jobs or studying for interviews, I have finally been free to not do anything!

It still isn't common knowledge but I've finally been offered a job, and I've accepted, to start in September.

So woohooo to that! I've wanted to give up childminding for a couple of years and finally am able to!! I've actually started looking around the house, imagining it without stuff!

So we had a lovely, normal, day. It started, as Saturdays usually do, with swimming lessons. Lila seems to have gone backwards, we're trying to figure out what's going on. She has her 20 meter swimming badge (approximately 60 feet) but now she seems unable to swim more than three strokes before putting a foot down and kicking off again. Ho hum.

After a trip to Morrison's for weekend food, we were packing it away when Rich broke his toe.

It was yet another alcohol related bone break... Some of you may remember the amusing broken ribs story from four years ago when he went out with his mates to celebrate his fortieth birthday... The morning after he was in agony and told me that they'd been to a restaurant called Cosmo the night before and he'd fallen down the stairs on the way out of the toilets. I looked at him and said "there aren't any stairs in Cosmo!" It turned out that it wasn't so much stairs as waaaaaaaay too much alcohol! I did look after him but took every opportunity to take the piss too!

This particular alcohol related bone breakage (although we think it's just cracked) was because he tried to put his beer on a shelf to have it fall off and land on his foot... Poor bloke did brilliantly by saying absolutely nothing offensive! I grabbed the bottle, which was spinning around spraying froth everywhere, and put it in the sink while telling Rich to sit down. I got him an ice pack from the freezer (yes, I always have ice packs ready to go) and cleaned up the spillage.

So that meant the day would be spent inside, and we made the most of it.

Rich spent the day on the sofa watching various sorts on tv including the Tour de France going through Yorkshire. Thoroughly enjoyed by both of us since we're both Yorkshire natives :-)

Me and the girls pottered around, I got the laptop out to print off the medical form that I need to fill in for my new job as well as fill in the info for my DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. I, obviously, didn't get any leave while doing this so I was answering in-depth questions, spelling words and explaining the meaning of words while writing what my asthma medication is and putting in my place of birth and national insurance number etc... I then noticed a visitor in Lila's hair... time for the essential oil hair-visitor treatment.

Talaia asked if she could use Word after I'd finished, and she wrote an article. This was with no help at all!