Times change

Just Small Thank You

this link talks about how I didn't like my son to play with guns when he was little - this photo shows you how times change!!

Hello Stangers!!

So, another 9 months have passed and I still haven't found the time to write a post!

Life for me continues to be very hectic - work seems to be getting busier and there is still only me with no admin support (I only want someone to work for 4 hours a day to help with all the paperwork!!), being District Commissioner again is just as bad as it was the first time round and with the Brownie Centenary celebrations being launched, I really have no time for myself or my family!

I have however made a concerted effort to look at my lifestyle and with that in mind I took myself off to Weightwatchers (again!) and although I have only lost just over a stone since Christmas, I have just got to my 5th dress size smaller - so I feel very pleased with myself.

This was me outside No.10 in 2011

 

And this was me outside No.10 two weeks ago!

 

So, I do feel better with myself! I still have a long way to go, but I will keep at it. Zumba has been a great help, but I have also been walking much more that I have ever had even to the point where I have taken myself off early in the morning to walk the fields and canals around here - something unheard of if you ask my family!!

 

Brownies seem to have taken over my life - which it shouldn't have with so many leaders at our unit but I maybe need to look at letting bits of it go and delegating more - I find it difficult to do this but the way I feel about having no time for me, then I need to make this a priority!

 

My son has just moved on to Explorers and is wanting to go to the World Scout Jamboree in Japan in 2015 - if he makes it through the selection weekend then we will have to find  approximately £3500 - that's a lot of fundraising!

 

He has also been in Army Cadets for over a year now and has been on a canoe camp, a weekend away and his annual camp. He has just applied for a skiing holiday for next February too which we should find out sometime this week if he has a place on this - more money!!

 

He has however made the decision to join the Army when he leave school - he wants to go to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate and complete his education there and then go straight in to the Army when he finishes that! It's great that he knows what he wants to do when he leaves school, but to be honest this really frightens me - maybe its because I'm his mum and to me he will always be my baby (he does however stand at over 6 feet tall and has size 12 shoes and he only turned 14 the week before last!!)

 

As parents we have always said that we would support him whatever he wants to do, so I just have to bite my tongue and smile and say " great idea monkey - lets see what we have to do to get you in there!"

 

Well that's my life in a concise nutshell, hopefully I will find a bit more time to write more posts as the weeks go on.

 

Have fun my friends :)