Excited!

Today I booked my trains and youth hostels for the AMT meetup in July! It's 12 weeks away so I was finally allowed to book tickets! :) I'm SO excited!
Because of ferries, trains and distance though, I'll be away for two and a half days!
I will catch the 5pm ferry on Friday, to meet up with the 6pm train from Oban to Glasgow. Arriving in Glasgow at 9.30pm, I'll stay in a youth hostel on Friday night, get up at 5am to catch a 5.40 train to Birmingham. The meetup will probably start early afternoon (I'll have arrived in Birmingham about mid-day I think?) and go on until we all fall over... then my train leaves at 1pm on Sunday, to arrive back in Oban, via Glasgow, at 9.30pm, which is after the last boat! So I have to stay in a youth hostel in Oban as well, and then get up super-early to catch the 7am boat which will get me to Mull for 8am, which gets me back to Tobermory for 8.30am, before Adam goes to work! Woohoo! :)
Alexander is hopefully going to get to go to my parents' house that week - not sure when we'll get him to them - which will be wonderful for him, and it means that I will only have to deal with one little person the day I get back after a long and tiring - but very fun! - weekend. :) I'm just hoping that I don't end up childminding that week. Jane knows Alexander will be going away, but not sure if she'll still want me to have the kids. I imagine it will be a long week if she does... don't know how I'd entertain them if I don't have munchkins here!

Anyway, in other news, Kathryn has now got five teeth and a 6th on the way. Three came through all at once over this past week. We're all a bit sleep deprived because of it! She is doing so well though, I can't believe she is 11 months old now. The first 6 months seemed to go at the right speed but the past 5 months have flown by. She's not confident enough to try steps on her own yet but I don't think it will be long.
Alexander didn't get into school this year so he will have another year of playgroup. I'm torn between disappointment for him and happiness that I have another year with him at home with me. I think he would have really benefitted from school, but hopefully the playgroup will somehow manage to make an effort to get him doing extra activities that help stimulate his mind - otherwise he will be very, very bored. But we'll see. The head teacher has promised me that he's going to make sure he gets something to keep him from getting bored. Fingers crossed!

We didn't get any of the council houses that were up over the past few months... not sure when it's going to happen now, so we are resigning ourselves to staying here for the time being. It wouldn't bother me, it's just the unsettled feeling has now kicked in and I can't really be bothered with anything. Need to shake it though because my house is such a mess again and it's depressing me. This happens quite regularly though, I just hope it passes quickly so I can get on top of things again!

Anyway it is getting late and I must go to bed as Kathryn will probably see fit to wake me up in about 4 hours demanding a bottle, cuddles, dummies, bonjela and goodness knows what else.

Will be back soon. :) x