Reasons To Be Cheerful

And be thankful its just the one baby!! 😆

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Finishing up work today for two weeks Annual Leave 😍

I know, it's frightening how quickly time is going! I'm not back to work until the day after the kids go back to school so this is literally my last working day of the summer holidays! How quickly the last 8 weeks have gone!

To be fair to the school they always tend to go back the last week in August (though last year was Sept 1st), there is an extra few days off in June this coming year but the school calendar is still just the standard 183 days so they're not doing anything extra.

That first day back is always a half day, suspect the Friday will be a short day too. Suspect I'll miss having them around myself on the days I'll be WFH, like yourself I enjoyed going down & having lunch with them.

My littlest is back on the 26th too. The teens aren't back until the 1st and 3rd. Will be back to organising lunch boxes and uniform (only the 1 these days thankfully) and school drop before work.

They sent me some photos

Was going to ring dogs trust on Monday but since there are plenty of dog owners here - what's the best for travelling in the car. It's only a 10 minute drive home when we collect him but what's the safest/best option? A crate, sitting on my lap?

As you can probably guess, we're complete newbies. We'll learn as we go along but want to get this first thing right.

Thanks for any advice.

A Goldie!!! He's (or she) gorgeous loughc. My family show goldies so they're a popular woofer in our part of the world. Fabliss.

Thanks LoughC. That's what I was thinking of doing, just wanted to be sure it was ok (and your doggie is soo gorgeous).The kids have had stupid grins since we told them. Although I think the OH is even more excited. He's been watching collie videos all evening.

Cute puppies alert 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

we have a little clip in harness and it attaches to his harness and clips into the seatbelt 👍

keep the photos coming 🥰🥰

It's getting closer....

My Mrs. even said last night randomly as we were watching TV that she could feel the Christmas build up starting, that it just felt like Christmas was in the air for the first time this year... that's not like her at all so there's obviously a growing feeling that things are starting.

Giggidy!!!

Nah, she's well used to that by now... 🤣

Exactly 4 months from now (Dec 17th) I'll be finishing up work for the year... taking a longer break at Christmas again this year as I've enjoyed the longer break the last few years, and I'm hopeful this year will be slightly more normal in the build up and not as quiet as last year so we'll be able to do some bits in the run up too... in some ways 4 months sounds miles away but the reality is that the time will fly by, especially with work being so busy.

Enjoy! We have my Wifes sisters family over from the UK next weekend (they haven't seen one another since Christmas 2019) so this weekend is a deep clean of the house... I've already been allocated the bathrooms... oh the joys!!🤐