Laura's Life!

Goodbye 2005

This is my last entry for 2005. This year has certainly been better to us than last year. Laurence is now in good health and has not only gained his qualifications but now has his own family law practice. I have finally completed my studies, and Carly won a bronze medal whilst representing Great Britain at netball and passed her driving test. Joëlle gained an A in her textiles GCSE (an A* the previous year in IT) and is to take the rest in 2006. Jaimie and I have both taken up karate and achieved our yellow belt grading earlier this month. My parents and Laurence's mother all seem in fairly good health (a few ailments that will hopefully improve over the next year).

Yesterday was the first day for about 5 years or so that I did absolutely nothing! I had been quite unwell during the night and had no energy. I sat on the settee and watched television, DVD's and tinkered about on the laptop. Well, I am on holiday so I am going to make the most of it.

Today I attempted to clear out Jaimie's bedroom. This is a difficult task that I attempt every six months or so. Teenagers rooms (Most of them not you darling Joëlle) are a little untidy, but Jaimie's is a mixture of the usual mess and a collection of unusual items e.g rubber gloves, fake dog poo and rubber tongues and jelly eyes. The lack of organisation due to her ADHD doesn't help nor does the fact that she has a tiny box room. We took a trip to IKEA and bought a chest of drawers for her that we could keep in the spare room. This started us thinking about rearranging her bedroom and taking out the old fitted wardrobes and maybe getting her a bed with a bit of storage underneath. I'll see what she thinks when she comes back from JLGB camp tomorrow.

I am really missing both Jaimie and Carly, however the house has remained tidy since they both left! I spoke to Carly just before and told me that Jaimie had an accident last night and knocked herself out running into the bedroom door! It couldn't have been that bad as I had not heard from anyone else and Carly said she was fine when she saw her! I think she just got over excited. I am hoping that she has managed to keep off medication during camp as the medication suppresses her appetite and she is very underweight.

Well enough rambling, we are going to stay in with a Chinese take-away and a bottle of wine. Happy New year and I'll be back in 2006