Funny Kid

This was a post i wrote last week and saved instead of posting up....

And it's not a full moon today so I don't know why I'm in a funny mood....maybe it's just that Monday Feeling.

When I asked Eilis how she felt about starting school. She said 'it's going to be great. Because if it's raining like this (points out window) we'll be able to do stuff.'
"What kind of stuff?" I asked
"Like LEARN" she said
This child has high expectations about what will happen in Junior Infants. I hope it lives up to them!

On holidays in Lehinch, we visited the Aquarium....Eilis quite liked it. Grace was nonplussed by it all and preferred to chomp on a Liga. Fair enough. I decided to educate my eldest and called her over to a tank with a Ray. I said " See how this fish is the same colour as the sand so that it's hard to see". "Yes Mammy" said Eilis, " That's called Camouflage".
Tony and I looked at each other trying to hide the laughter and at that point I decided I had to step it up a gear and explain how rays were the same family as sharks, etc, etc. She had learned about camouflage from 'Little Einsteins' on the telly. And who said tv is bad for children!? I just have to find a 'big einsteins' programme for myself to keep ahead of her.

Pink Shrugs and the Countdown

There's an unusual title. I'm in a strange mood - I wonder if there's a full moon??

Today, because it was so yeugh outside - winterlikeness, I pulled on jeans and a top for work and pulled a pink shrug out of my 'winter wardrobe box'. I know this makes me sound
A - super organised because I have a winter wardrobe box and
B - super cool for owning a pink shrug....

Hmmmnn - well, the organised bit is WRONG - I am the untidiest person in Ireland at the moment. Have no space, hate hanging up clothes - prefer to just let them sprawl...and the box is actually just one that wasn't unpacked from the move in March. So there. Not super organised, at all.
Super cool...maybe....I bought the shrug in H&M last winter thinking I'd wear it loads cos I was preggo and nothing else would fit, but just didn't do it. Now, (when it's probably uber unfashionable) it is my favourite-ist thing in my non wardrobe. It's cerise pink mohair-ish (not like really hairy mohair, just kind fluffier than wool...so probably not mohair at all in fact. And there's a touch of sparkliness through it. Everyone needs a pink shrug on a day like today.

The Countdown to my big 30 starts today.....
Not sure what the countdown will entail...any suggestions??
Was going to do a 30 days to 30 - but I forgot, life got in the way, and so instead it's 24 days to 30. How will I celebrate the last 24 days of being a twenty something....Aggghhhh.....
I'll blog - that's one thing I suppose....maybe photos? Maybe craft?
I'll be back...