Reason to Be Cheerful (#R2BC)

Well, it's that time of the week again and I have survived one more week of the school holidays! Yay! This coming week is a bit of an exciting week for us, so here are this weeks Reason's to Be Cheerful:

Picture from www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com

• Sunday is Noah's 3rd birthday!!  I can't believe that he's going to be 3 and starts nursery in two weeks!  Time has flown by so quickly, he will no longer be my little baby. :-(
• Of course, birthdays mean cakes.  Noah has asked for a dinosaur cake again this year, so I am going to attempt to make one like the one on the right there.  Wish me luck!!
• Birthdays also mean days out.  I am really hoping that the weather report is lying at the moment and really the weekend is going to be hot and sunny.
• The weekend off work.  Since starting my weekend job, I have made sure to book the birthday weekends off.  So a whole weekend off work, yippee.  :-)
• And of course, it's a Bank Holiday weekend, so even more time to relax.
• Today is Aled's last speech therapy appointment, so next week we can do what we like, when we like. :-)
• We had a great time at our play date yesterday at the park and had a nice picnic and fingers crossed, we will be having another play date again tomorrow.
• I got my first two sponsors for the Race for Life that I am taking part in in October.  The link is there on the right if you would like to sponsor me. ;-)

Well, that's me for this week.  What are your Reason's to be Cheerful this week?

Jackie. x

Reasons to be Cheerful 1, 2, 3 - Week 4

It's been a bit of a tough week this week for me emotionally.  I think my depression is rearing it's ugly head again and I am struggling to stay cheerful.  Although I can see the good things, I am struggling to really enjoy them at the moment.
My reasons to be cheerful this week are:

• Having a job interview next week.  I have come to the decision that with Noah starting nursery in September and Aled going to school full time, it would be a good time for me to return to work.  Before I had the boys I was working in a school as an administrator and really enjoyed it, therefore the first place I looked for vacancies was the schools website.  I was lucky as they are advertising a position that I feel I can do and it's term time only, so I still get to spend the holidays with my boys.  The best of both worlds.  Fingers crossed I get the job!
• I went to a BBQ last night with my weekend job colleagues.  It's an annual BBQ that they have done every year.  The food was yummy and they did a raffle.  Normally I don't win in raffles, but this time I won a huge slab of Cadbury's Dairy Milk! Yay.  To top it off, at the end of the night, most of my colleagues were off to a nightclub (I am waaaay to old for such shenanigans) and one of the girls asked me if I wanted the bottle of wine that she had won, as she wouldn't be able to drink it before getting to the club.  Thank you very much, with the last episode of Desperate Housewives that I have recorded, that is now my Friday night sorted. :-)

Um, I am now struggling to find something else!  I feel terrible, I feel that there should be more, but I really can't think of anything more!

Hopefully next week I will have a much more positive outlook on life.

Jackie. x