Hama!

I think childminding wise buying these has been the best investment I have ever made!!! I've just spent a small fortune on toys, games and activities and this one has been most popular! It's been used by all the children aged from 4 up to 13 and they have spent all day doing it! I'm going to spend all week hoovering the damn things up off the floor though!

I'm zonked now! 6 kids all day is hard work! A lot of fun though! I must admit I couldn't handle this full time all year round! I'm probably going to need all day to clean up and prepare for the older ones coming! They are much harder in a lot of ways than the little ones but with the older ones I can have my hose looking like a home and not a nursery!

I also had my first fast day today! OH MY GOD!!! It was sooooo hard! I'm starving, got a stinking headache and I'm grouchy as hell! I'm told it gets easier! I seriously hope so! It has really opened my eyes to the calories in things, even things like fruit and other healthy foods! And I've realised just how guilty I am of picking at foods just because they are in front of me, rather than eating purely because I'm hungry! Psychologically I can see how it works at getting people to lose weight but I'm not liking the feeling hungry part one little bit!