Nick has passed!

I am please to announce that Nick received a letter from the RAF today, telling him that he has been accepted for officer training, and will start at RAF Cranwell on 30th August. We are all so proud of him, and happy that at last he has achieved his life-long dream. Congratulations Nick, we have always believed in you and knew that you would make it xx

The end of a stressful week!

Well, this has been a very hormonal household this week - Nick has been at RAF Cranwell all week, and Polly has had a full week of Year 6 SATS exams to sit. I am now shattered, having woken up at 4am every morning wondering how Nick has been getting along! The good news is that, out of 27 candidates who arrived for officer selection training on Monday, Nick was one of only 10 who made it through to the end of the week. He has passed all the tests, medicals, aptitude tests, exercises and interviews, and we now have to wait a further 3 or 4 weeks to find out if he was good enough to be offered a commission as a pilot officer with the RAF. I hope my nerves will stand the wait, never mind Nicks!
Polly is now glad to have her brother back home, and equally happy to have finished her exams too. She goes away for a 4 day school trip tomorrow to Bamburgh, and is both excited at the thought of her first holiday away from us, and nervous at how she will cope without us for so long! I am sure she will be fine. Meanwhile, it is very strange to have both of our children soundly asleep so early on a Friday evening!

Nick's A to Z is nearly finished!

I only have 4 pages left to scrap, so Nick's A to Z is almost finished. Spent a lovely day yesterday with Leeds Paper Dolls, Susy helped me cover the album, and I also scrapped Nicks "Q" page. I have deliberately left his R page blank for now, it will be titled "RAF" but as he goes to Cranwell on Tuesday for his officer selection, I am waiting to see if he is successful before making the page. He is SO nervous bless him, as he wants to fly more than anything. He didn't make it last year, so we are really hoping that this year will see his dream come true.

Q is for Quilts

Wow, I'm on a roll now!! Spent all day with Leeds Paper Dolls, and managed another layout....just one today, but the stitching took ages and we were all being very silly as you can see from this picture of us - "The Mad Hatters"!

Catching up with Nick's A to Z Album

After spending last Saturday scrapbboking all day (luxury!) with the Leeds Paper Dolls, I managed to finish a few more pages of Nick's A to Z book. I've spent weeks thinking what to do with each page, and printing photos out, so hopefully I'm now back on track and might get it finished before his next birthday in November! I had hoped to spend the next few weekends scrapbooking before the caravan season starts again, but as we've finally arranged for our old kitchen to be replaced with drawers that don't fall to bits in your hands(!) it looks like I'll be clearing the cupboards out instead. Never mind, when the new kitchen is in, I'll have more worktop space so maybe I can scrapbook in there!

A walk in the park

 

We had a lovely walk in our local park today, something we haven't done for ages. It was so nice watching the ducks, and the regulars from the model boat club. It was even nicer to see a bit of sunshine, despite the bitingly cold wind! It made us determined to make 2009 the year we get out and exercise more....maybe this time we actually will! Whatever, we had a great time and got away from the laptop for a while, so that's got to be good.

Christmas is coming!

 

Thanks to my friend Juliet, I have finally found out how to upload collages! I love picasa! These are just a few pictures from the "snow day" we enjoyed a few weeks ago. Snow seems to make the most boring things take on their own magic...even our rusty garden gate looks beautiful!