I moved to Hertfordshire from South London in October. My eldest (5 1/2) has been in school since November. I'm particularly concerned about this school choice as I didn't get the school nearest to where I live and prior to this move my son has changed school once already.
I think for the first time my very sociable yet boisterous son feels a little out of his depth. He's complained of bullying already which I have acted on. Spoke to teacher and deputy head. They both think that my son has misinterpreted the word, yet he gives me regular reports of certain boys not leaving him alone. Any way the situation is to be monitored next year.
I know for certain that my eldest really feels like the odd one out. On a good note we have made friends with a boy and his mother from the school. The new friend is not in my sons class and we are going to see Madagascar 2 on Christmas eve.

Next bugbear is Christmas. At the beginning of the week I asked my dear husband to let me know what he is doing this week as he insists on us having Christmas together in this new house that isn't totally unpacked. Only to find that he was going to check some items out at an auction and then to return to the auction tomorrow to possibly buy. He has stipulated that no Christmas decorations are to be put up until all the unpacked boxes are cleared. This is more than 2 days work. This is what I want. I want to have a lovely Christmas together with 1 or 2 events thrown in such as a lovely country walk, visiting Church and a visit to Hertford before Christmas so that the boys can make some last minute decorations. As we are going to do the Christmas decorations late I was planning to make this one of the events of the holiday. Well I will be doing this tomorrow. Dear husband says that he will buy the big present for the boys as he knows what boys want. This still hasn't been done and if he thinks I'm going to ToysRus on Christmas eve he's got another thing coming! I will be buying a couple of games and I have already bought some books for the boys.

Picked up a self help book on motherhood from the library. Didn't think I needed it was just curious and wanted to know what it said about me time. Turns out its an excellent book asking the reader " what did you enjoy doing before you had children and what did this activity do for you?". The book is from the "teach yourself" range entitled Motherhood.