Now I know how my mum must have felt all those years ago when she used to try to turn off my CD player. I would watch her and sigh as she attempted to find the volume switch and roll my eyes as she struggled to turn the music off.

It’s my kid’s turn to get frustrated and annoyed with me as I try to keep up with ever-changing technology. I actually think that I do a good job of  keeping myself up to date with things…after all I am writing this blog and you’ve got to be a bit tech savvy to do that!

Even my four-year old can find his way around an iPhone better than I can! He’s also obsessed with YouTube and has Buzz Lightyear envy after seeing a boy showing off his extensive buzz collection. He even asked if he could download music from YouTube. How does he even know what download means?

We took a video of him dancing last week and after we showed it to him he said, ‘Can you put that on YouTube mum?’.  It’s all a bit worrying.

Christmas in our house is not a quiet affair. With three boys, all of very different ages, they have different hobbies…..and none of them are quiet.

Youngest is 4 and has the entire collection of Toy Story characters. He already had Buzz Lightyear and Woody and this Christmas he completed the trio with Jessie. ALL of the them ‘talk’, which is fine until he has them all ‘talking ‘ at once!

Oldest son listens to music, and it’s actually pretty good music, he just likes to listen to it LOUDLY!!

But none of this tops middle son who is now the proud owner of an electric guitar and a

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Fender Amp. Why did we buy him this, I hear you ask. Because we wanted to encourage him and his newly acquired interest in guitar playing plus hubby also likes to strum a few chords also couldn’t wait to get his hands on the new ‘toys’.

After a rather successful hen weekend in Manchester with five of my best buddies, I’m being greedy and having a second local one this Saturday.

This time it’s for all the female (well, those old enough to drink!) wedding guests. We’re going to M’s beauty in Burbage which a favourite of ours. Not only do you get a half hour beauty treatment, but you also get a four course, home cooked meal. It’s great value for money and we always have a great time.

I am a bit worried though about what they might make me dress up in. I just hope it’s not a playboy bunny outfit!

It’s flippin hard work running a business (or two). On top of which I look after 5 kids including one stepdaughter and one foreign student and to top it all we’re getting married in less than six weeks!

I’ve decided that if I ever went back to working for ‘The Man’, I should look for project manager jobs. I think I may even be over qualified!

My kids do a minimal amount of activities outside of school. The reason being, is it starts to get very expensive!

My OH’s ex-wife has recently started to ask for more money as she says the money we give her doesn’t even cover my step-daughters activities!! We then found out she takes part in an activity every day except for the weekends we have her. Is that too much?

My boys have to pick and choose what they do so that it falls within our budget. Once middle has played football, youngest has taken his spanish class and eldest has had his pocket-money there isn’t much left to go around.

Middle has been thinking about going horse riding but just to buy the speciality equestrian clothing is going to cost a fortune before the riding lessons even start!

OH bought himself some golf clubs for his last birthday and yet still they sit in the garage, brand spanking new and never taken out of the bag! Sigh!! Think I might sell them to pay for riding lessons!

A couple of years ago we had a new kitchen fitted. It’s a lovely kitchen with high cupboards that reach to the ceiling.

Lovely, until I want to get something from the back of the top cupboard! I’m not a shorty, in fact at 5ft inches I’m classed as above average height and with heels on I could stretch to 5ft 9! Even so I just cannot reach to get things at the back. Up until now, dining rooms chairs have been dragged along the floor and back or I’ve asked OH who at 6ft 3 can just about reach on his tip toes!

So, yesterday I finally invested in a couple of two step stools and my life has suddenly improved! I don’t know why I didn’t do this years ago!!

I have one downstairs and one upstairs to reach into the top of the wardrobe. I am officially a  very happy bunny!

In exactly five days time, eldest will be breaking up from school…again.

Nothing breaks up a year like the long, school holidays.

Last year I booked up several camping trips and the holidays simply flew by! But not this year…oh no….I’ve managed to organise absolutely nothing. Zip…zilch…nowt…you got it….nil!!

Now that my bakery business is taking off, I’ve had time to think of little else…except of course the wedding.

Eldest is being whisked away to Italy by his mostly absent father, so that is obviously great for him, but as for the other two horrors!! Plus we’ve got my soon to be step daughter staying for a couple of week and if mum don’t organise anything, nobody organises anything!

I wonder if Aldi still have that speacial offer on Gin!

Here’s a question for you.

Anybody ever taken out wedding insurance?  Supposedly, the average wedding now costs just under £20,000! Really? Are couples seriously spending that kind of money on one day? I find it hard to believe, especially when they can do it for 12 grand on Don’t Tell the Bride!

I think our wedding will ultimately cost somewhere in the region of £6,ooo to £7,000 which is still a fair old chunk of money and I suppose it pays to cover all the ‘what ifs’.

‘What if’ my dress gets ruined. ‘What if’  the venue goes up in flames the day before. ‘What if’ he doesn’t turn up?!

But, they are all just ‘What ifs’! ‘What if’ it all goes to plan and nothing goes wrong and we end up out-of-pocket because we took out wedding insurance?