Autumn Leaves

This morning I picked up little P and went, with him and Nat, to my Wednesday morning Mums' Prayer group at Church.

It was lovely to see all my wonderful friends and I took a cake with me as it is my birthday tomorrow! It was just a victoria sponge sandwiched together with homemade strawberry and vanilla jam and piped with vanilla butter icing. Fortunately there was enough left over for David and the boys to have a slice later!

After dropping little P back home, Nat and I stopped to collect some Autumn leaves.

Back home we had a quick bite to eat and I started sticking several sheets of paper together to make one large piece for today's kids craft project.

While I was busy sticking, my mother-in-law Hazel turned up with my birthday present which was a really nice surprise.  She had a cup of tea and a slice of cake and we had a very pleasant chat while I opened my lovely presents.

First was a really pretty and unusal book holder in the style of a deck chair.  This can be used for books or kindles but I think will be particularly useful for my recipe books while I am cooking.

I also was given a  beautiful black beaded wrap - a little bit of sparkle!  Now I want David to take me somewhere nice so I can have an excuse to wear it!

Finally a much needed pot of Passionfruit scented Body Butter which smells delicious!

Later Nat and I continued with our craft project and we painted a tree with branches onto the large piece of paper. 

 

Nat was keen to do some hand painting so we added some handprint leaves.

Next I had to get Nat to eat a yoghurt so we could use the pot for some glue.

 

Then back to work and Nat glued on the real leaves that he had collected.

And this is the finished picture which is now hanging on our conservatory wall! 

Just in time for Seb coming home from school.  I prepared him a bowl of fruit for a snack and we caught up on his day. 

 

Then he showed me a really great website that he has used at school.  It is called Fast Tomato and it is a careers advice website.

http://www.fasttomato.com/public/login

 You log on for free and then answer some questions about your preferences and also what level of qualifications you think you will achieve.  Then it provides you with a list of career options which it thinks you are suited for.  You can find out more about the different roles it suggests including what qualifications you need and what subjects would be good to choose at GCSE, A-Level or Degree level.  If you then click on your profile and then summary it explains about your working preferences and what kind of things you are likely to like or dislike in a job.

I thought it was fantastically accurate.  it came up with suggestions of Website Designer, Fashion Designer, photographer, Cameraman or CAD Engineer (Computer Aided Design) for Seb which are all things I would think he would be great at.

I was so impressed I even made an account for myself and Seb and I tried the questions out on me to see what careers it recommended for me.  I learned that I prefer a role involving lots of writing and also one in which I get to tell other people what to do or to persuade them around to my way of thinking!  The careers it recommended for me were barrister or advocate, teacher, social worker or Human Resources Manager (which is what I am!)

While Seb did his homework I cleaned the paint and glue off the conservatory floor before starting dinner and icing the other cake that I have made to take to work tomorrow!  This one is a chocolate cake, hope it turns out as well as the Victoria sponge - that was yummy!

After dinner we tried the fast Tomato website out on David and again a really accurate outcome as among his career options was Bank or building society Manager!!

Boys are both in bed, just time for a glass of wine and a relax before bedtime!