I can't believe how quickly time goes by.

I looked at my blog today and discovered it's 9 months since I looked and I have 2 messages!! From the same person but if you are still checking in I am so glad to hear from you. I am going to try to leave you a message.
My lovely girls are doing very well, CMJ is now a teaching assistant and CMM is turning out to be a genius - well, a very bright girl. We are very proud of her, she is lucky though, loves to work. How cool is that for a 13 year old.
CMM is off to France on a student exchange and the daughter of the family she stays with will come and stay with them. It's such a lovely idea, we always had students when I was young and it helped with language studies a lot.
Yesterday was Robert Burns' birthday so the girls were here for haggis, mashed potatoes and swede. We like to keep it up, my parents always celebrated so it keeps the family traditions alive.
We had a lot of snow this winter (for the south coast anyway!) and it was surprisingly cold, but Christmas was lovely again and so was New Year. We had hoped to stay with a friend of CMJ who spent lots of time at my house when they were growing up, just like one of the family. Anyway, she's moved to the Lake District and we were planning to go but the weather was too inclement so we stayed home and just celebrated here. It was just lovely - a really nice start to the year.
Once again I will try to do this weekly at least, I want to but have been very bad at it so far!!