Is it just me or are the holidays absolutely flying by? I can’t believe we’re into August already and looking at our calendar we really don’t have that many days without any plans before we go back to school. I mean some of those days only have things like eye tests, or swimming lessons and the rest of the day is free but it still feels pretty chocka!

We did it! We made it to the end of term and we have already enjoyed the first week of our summer holidays. We haven’t really done much so far. I think we all just needed a few days at home to relax and get our energy back after the last tiring few weeks of school.

Hurray! I’m here on time – I actually stayed up to write this last night when I really should have been going to bed but at least I’m back up to date again! Like the rest of the country we’re currently melting up here in the north, and it’s only set to get hotter – I don’t know how we’re going to cope at school for the next few days…

Despite my best intentions I’m still writing this post at the last minute again. I feel like I haven’t stopped for weeks now and I’m constantly worrying that I’ve forgotten something important! Still we’ve only got 4 more days at school to go and then hopefully I’ll have time to catch my breath a bit…

I’m so busy at the moment I don’t know if I’m coming or going! Which explains why I should have written this post a week ago! Anyway, I’m here now so it will have to do…

Wow! Week 26 means we’re half way through the year already! And only four weeks until the summer holidays. I can’t wait – I’ve enjoyed going back to work this last year but working full time after being at home for six years has been hard to adjust to. Hopefully six weeks at home over the summer will give me chance to catch my breath a bit…

I’ve just realised it’s Friday night and I still haven’t written this week’s Living Arrows post! Life just feels very hectic at the moment and I don’t seem to have much time to do anything… This last week I’ve had a school governor meeting, taken Toby kayaking with Cubs (more of that later), had a haircut, a PTA meeting, a massage and had to go to Aldi because we had run out of pain au chocolat and Gabe’s life was over!

I don’t really have much to say this week. We’re back at school now and getting back into the routine. I think we’re definitely on the countdown to the summer holidays now though – only 25 school days to go! (And yes, I did count them!)

I only wrote my last post a few days ago but I’m back again! We’ve been off school this last week, like most of the country, but the boys have got two inset days this week so they’re not actually back until Wednesday. We made the most of the week off school to use our new tent again and go on another camping trip.

Despite the fact we’re almost at the end of half term already I’m not going to write about what we got up to this week in this post – I’m going to save that for my next one… Instead this week’s photos are from my birthday on Saturday.