Reasons to be Cheerful: I am back online!! #R2BC

The wonderful Jo over at Ojo's World has been hosting as I haven't been online at home since the start of June! All that is now behind me and I am back again. So here are my reasons to be cheerful this week:

1) Internet

Not having home broadband has been so frustrating and its been a comedy of errors. In the end my mum had to email the CEO of BT to get me sorted! Today at 3:20 I was finally reactivated after being switched off on June 1st. We have all systems back online and that includes TV which is a relief. It shows how much our family and student life relied on being able to connect to the world wide web.

2) Fun in the sun

Today to celebrate great academic reports from both children we headed to the park in the village and the children were all cooling off in the river. It didn't seem to matter that my two didn't have swimming gear:

3) House move

Well I haven't been able to blog about the progress in the house since we moved but today a major step happened when builders ripped out the dodgy walls in my son's room and started to make it a safe room for him to sleep in:

Hopefully now I am back online and coming to end of my teacher training I will be back blog on a regular basis again! 

Reasons to be Cheerful: It's June! #R2BC

The lovely Jo is hosting this month and I hope to be able to join in even if I am late some weeks! Here are my short and sweet reasons to be cheerful:

1) Shiny things

My new cooker was installed at the house this week. Looks far too new and clean! Just need to sort out the gas meter card so that I can try it out..

2) Outdoor teaching

I had the best classroom this week when I spent a day miniature raft building near Coniston Water. I even got a tan!

3) On the move

We may not have everything ready in the new house but we have to start sleeping in it so I moved the children's mattresses over tonight. One will be on a camp bed as I am pinching the decent single! Hoping that by the end of the weekend we can have a make shift home that we can survive in for a few weeks until the building works completed and we can carpet and move in all the furniture:

Why are you smiling this week?

Reasons to be Cheerful - the Colourful One #R2BC

As Jo at Ojo's World said I have actually been away for a few days hurrah! Now back and raring to go and full of cheer. Great to see so many folks joining in already this week. Here are my colourful reasons to be cheerful:

1) House Move:

I am coming to terms with the fact we now can't move in for at least another month due to required repairs but we have made lots of progress including moving in the fridge/freezer and washing machine:

My daughter has been painting her room a lovely shade of blue:

2) Kendal Colour Run

We all did the Kendal Colour Run in aid of a local hospice and children's hospice. Lots of fun and hoping to raise even more money (hint, hint!):

3) Family Holiday

We have just come back from an amazing 3 generation break at Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest to celebrate my mum's birthday. There will be a full post appearing soon but here is a taster:

Why are you smiling this week?

Reasons to be Cheerful: Decorating and Running #R2BC

The lovely Jo at Ojo's World came to the rescue when I couldn't get the linky up in time today! Thank you angel xxx. Here are my reasons to be cheerful this week:

1) Busy Cub

My son came home from cubs this week with a backlog of badges as Akela had been stocking up. See if you can work out what they all are:

2) Running

I got out for a decent run for the first time since April 26th today! Having signed up for a virtual race that needed to be done this month I had to get out there... I was so happy to be running that I shot off pretty quick but then eased off after a couple of kilometres as my stamina wasn't too good. A reasonable 5 k time of 34 minutes which was only 3 minutes off my PB. Hopefully I can get out during the holiday next week.. This is how pleased I was to finish:

3) House move

Both my parents have been working really hard on trying to get the new house ready for us to move into. This weekend the children both did their bit by helping to paint the kitchen:

Some boxes of kitchen bits have already moved in to their new cupboards and drawers which makes it all feel real! More stuff has been packed up at home too even though its a slow and steady job.

What is making you happy this week?

Reasons to be Cheerful: Its all coming together

I have been a bit AWOL recently with teacher training and preparing to move house - I never do anything by halves! It isn't because I had nothing to be cheerful about just not enough time to blog about it. Thanks to the lovely Jo at Ojo's World for holding the fort. I will do my best to keep hosting in May..

Here are my recent reasons to be cheerful:

1) House move 

My dad has been working hard to get the new house ready for moving. He has been removing paper and painting woodwork as well as fixing the kitchen floor. Still plenty to do and its giving me time to pack up all our worldly possessions:

2) Outdoor Fun

I had an amazing school trip to Coniston Water Park this week. As well as canoeing I even got hauled up into a tree by the children:

3) VE Day

My children celebrated VE Day at school by wearing vintage style clothing and having a street party. This was my daughter's outfit:

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