I'm free

Oops!! I know it's been a while since my last blog entry but I'm children free till tomorrow morning!! Yes the boys have gone for a sleepover at my sil's house so Akber & I are going out for a meal this evening & later I plan to scrap....loads ....I hope!



Last weekend was pretty hectic. Good Friday was also Akber's birthday so Kaizer made him a wonderful chocolate cake that he'd learnt how to make 2 days previous at school. And before you ask, yes we ate 2 cakes in 2 days!!It was also a friend's 30th birthday so after his birthday meal we popped in at her birthday meal & made it a double celebration.

Here are my handsome guys.

Saturday I drove up to Birmingham with Jamila to attend the Arabian Soiree. It was a fun ladies only do with a belly dancer showing us her talents & also teaching us how to dance like her!
Jamila & I are dressed up & raring to go!!

The belly dancer & boy was she was good at wriggling her hips!!!

We came back really really late (it was almost 2 in the morning when I got into bed) so spent most of Sunday dozing on & off. Though I still had to hide the eggs around the house so Imran could hunt them down LOL.

And here's his stash.....I think he did pretty well .....and that's not counting the other eggs he'd been given by family!

Happy 13th Birthday Kaizer

Today, finally, Kaizer becomes a teenager!!!
Happy birthday darling boy. Bet you're counting down the minutes till it's pressie time.
He knows he's getting a mobile phone as he picked it out on Saturday but there's still a couple more surprises to come.
And here's a photo of my handsome boy:




I now have 2 teenagers in my house.....do you feel sorry for me

Happy Mother's Day

To all the mums out there I hope you're having a lovely Mother's Day.

My boys spoiled me this morning with breakfast in bed & lots of lovely gifts including perfume, potted orchids, a new reading book & choccies and more!
I've not been allowed to do anything even making the beds was a no-no. Going out for a meal later. So all in all I'm having a fabby day.

Congratulations....

to my friend Rachael who is a runner up in Scrapbook Magazine.
I'm really really pleased for her as Rachael's work is fabulous.
You can see some of it on her blog www.thebassettboys.blogspot.com (I haven't yet worked out how to do links...Rachael can you help me?!!)
She also designed this week's class kit for The Scrapbook Lady. Hope you do some more Rachael!

Some los to share with you

Here's some some los that were done this month. Quite pleased that I've managed to get this many done!!





This one was a class kit done last night at Sharon's crop &
was designed by Rachael. I love how it's turned out.



Love these pictures of my eldest & youngest enjoying a
book together.



Some pictures taken of my guys just before they set off to
watch India v England at the Oval last summer.



My beautiful niece Zahara.



And finally a challenge lo set by Sharon of Scrapbook Lady.
We were given the bauble cutout cs & the rest was up to us.

Oh no, back to work tomorrow..

That's it. Back to work tomorrow! It's been lovely having these last two weeks off work...that's one of the perks of working in a school!!!

We've had a lovely Christmas. It was a quiet one, just spending time with the kids playing loads of games. Our favourite this year was Switch 16, a fab card game for 4. We ate tons of yummy food. Hussein fell ill on Boxing day so we didn't really get a chance to go out much.We also watched a whole bunch of movies including It's A Wonderful Life (a pressie from Dawn....thanks!) Here are a few pics taken during the hols.





Went to see Peter Pan at the Birmingham Rep...Xmassy present from my lovely baby brother Asif...thanks. Unfortunately Kaizer fell ill the day I was leaving for B'ham so I had to leave him behind with his dad. Thanks goodnes he's better now & all ready for school.

My cousin Alifiya,who lives in Kuwait, had her second baby a couple of days ago..another boy. Join the club hon!!

Last night we had raclette for dinner. It's a Swiss speciality cheese. You cook it under a tabletop grill & eat it with potatoes, sausages & pickled beetroot & gherkins. Yumm, my mouth's watering just at the thought of it. We love it but only eat it a couple of times a year.

Spent most of today updating my diary, the family calendar and at the last minute rushing out to WHSmiths with Kaizer to buy him new stationary for school.

Decided that I'd love to start knitting again so spent some time searching the web for sites. There's not really many bricks & mortar shops around here that sell wool & patterns. So if you know of any good sites please let me know.


Otherwise it's been a pretty much chill out day and I think I'm ready to go back to work. Ask me again at the end of the week and it might be a different story altogether!!!

Ciao for now.

Serendipity

I was really chuffed to find out that this film was on telly, late last night.

I first saw it a few years back & just love the story, of how, two strangers finally reunite after several years apart.

In the film they visit a quaint chocolate/patisserie in New York called Serendipity 3.

Skip forward a few years to 2005 & I'm in NYC with my family for my 4oth birthday celebrations. The morning was spent visiting Tiffanys and Central Park. In the evening my husband called a taxi and off we went for my birthday meal.

Lo and behold we stopped right outside Serendipity 3!! I was so chuffed that he'd remembered the restaurant from the film. No such thing! He'd been advised to take me there as they are well known for their chocolate desserts and he knows that I love chocolate! Also loads of famous people like Beyonce and Nicole Kidman go there too.

Anyway it turned out to be the most fabulous meal starting off with Frrrozen Hot Chocolate which is their speciality. I also did a little shopping in their shop buying a Betty Boop mug & some Frrrozen Hot Chocolate mix to make some up back at home.

So here are some pics of us at Serendipity and if you're ever in New York I'd highly recommend you going.