Reasons To Be Cheerful

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!

Our's aren't back till the 1st so little less then 3 weeks to go. They are back in afternoon school since start of this month so easing them back into it. Middle Elf is starting Junior Infants so big change for them however they'll have their big sibling to keep an eye on them :)

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.

Con'grat tscul32 on the new arrival to the house :)

Just about turn laptop off and get out for some fresh air. Have a great weekend folks.

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.

Finally found my way back to the Christmas forum and added it to my categories. It’s been a challenging year so it’s nice to be back

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!!!