PGL CAYTHORPE COURT, LINCOLNSHIRE

CAYTHORPE COURT

O.k so Bow started year 6 this week which means s.a.t's in may and then leaving primary school. So beofre they settle down for their last year in primary school as they do every year the kids go on a pgl trip as most kid's call it "parent's get lost" just to see if they can get a reaction from them doesn't work though.
So on wednesday the day they went back Bow walked into school with her suitcase with a massive smile on her face and all her friends grinning from ear to ear.
The school was fantastic we got regular up dates with the activities they were doing and how they slept it was fantastic and i have to say made myself and other parents jealous.

On the 1st day there they left school at 11 and think they must've started activites near enough straight away these included Zip Wire, Vertical Challenge and Ambush, they had an early night apparently even though lights out was 10 Bow and 3 of her friends who were all sharing the room stopped talking about 11. All to prepare them for a full day off activities the next day.
On day 2 they had there breakfast then went off Kayaking where Bow decided to wear one her t-shirts she wears everyday she decided against the old one i put in a bag marked for Kayaking after this it was lunch then on to the afternoon activities which involved climbing then the big swing apparently the boys was expecting Bow to be to scared and not do climbing little did they know that she had actually been climbing before and used to do it as a sport and has climbed 70ft up on her very 1st attempt not bad considering she was only 7. Then it was a relaxing evening with a camp fire then bed apparently Bow and her friends went to sleep arounf 10:15 they must've been exhausted.
On day 3 this involved mainly morning activities as they came home this afternoon. Apparently the kid's slept like logs pardon the pun. For the 2 activities they did abseiling and trapeze then Bow's favorite hobbey shopping then home time.
BOW called the whole experience awesome and fantastic. The food was also fantastic. I didn't just take Bow's word for it i spoke to her many friends as they came off the bus and then spoke to some this evening. All the kid's came back exhausted but so happy but apparently 3 days wasn't enough she want's to go for a week. Problem being now Bow wanting to go on a family holiday there.

http://www.pgl.co.uk/PGLWeb/Schools/Primary-schools/adventure/centres/CaythorpeCourt.htm

COMING TOMZ BOW'S REVIEW ON SOME OFF THE ACTIVITIES she's fast asleep and has been for hour's

I HAVE NOT BEEN ASKED TO DO THIS.

Me

O.k so i hate writing about myself but i realised i'm not going to get more follows if i don't start writing more and also telling you about myself and my children.
I think i'm going to do a basic outline off everything i have been through and just put a bit about them and i will put more details on at a later date. I am going to start writing this blog most days as loads happen to me from fantastic to bad and some just pure weird. I may only be 29 but i have been through so much in one lifetime more than anyone should and all before i hit 30.

O.k so 1st i come from a broken home my mum left my dad when i was 5 i have a younger sis and bro my mum went off with another man who she later married. My dad took years to find love again he used to take us to a group called Gingerbread where he found love again at 1st us kid's loved our new step dad and step mum we were spoilt rotten (one of the many joys off a broken home) all this time we lived with our dad he got many suspicious looks as when he was single and raising 2 girls they didn't think about him raising my brother. However i have to say my dad did a fantastic good job better when he was single than with his now ex wife the one after my mother, yes we have had major falling's out and i didn't talk to him for over a year once i was older more about that later though that was fun not.

o.k so as i have said both my parent's got re-married and all was well and good for a couple off years then i hit teenage years yep DUM DE DUM lol. The teenage years started out fun sneaking out to nappie nights (18 under's club) seeing friends etc. Then the trouble started which would set the path for my life. My ex step mother who myself and friends referred to and still refer to as the wicked witch off the north, south, east and west, started hitting me and my brother i wore so much make up to cover my BLACK EYE for a school photo once i needed to have a belt taken to me for wearing make up doesn't make sense i know considering what i was covering up. At this time my dad was at work all time and if he wasn't at work he was at the pub (he still does that now pub then work and at weekends shop then pub). Myself and my brother who is younger than me bore the brunt off it my sister was the apple off her eye along with her own son. Then one night i went to a nappie night and the next day i moved up to live with my mum (nappie night another story). I was so happy after my dad and the witch i thought new place, new start and new school you see my mum lives's 3 hours away and i thought heaven. I was so excited but 1 nightmare turned into a even worse nightmare.

I was RAPED by my step dad at the age off 15 it went on for 17 months. I became so withdrawn and didn't tell anyone, then i confided in one off good friends she then told an adult

and i cannot re-pay her enough for helping me even though at the time i didn't thank her. I have blanked out most off it but needless to say it is something that i live with everyday off my life. What did help is that when it was finally disclosed he was charged and it went to crown court and he was found guilty on 10 counts off rape and sentenced to 12 years (more about this another time) however what i will say this is when my DEPRESSION started. After this i went off the rails and didn't care what i was doing and who i was hurting and that is how BOW came about she has no contact with her dad that's a long story he has never seen her though. I credit falling pregnant with BOW with saving me but that bought me on my next chapter.

 Becoming a TEENAGE PARENT as we called it then however there now called YOUNG MUM'S (prefer this name sounds so much better) i fell pregnant at 17 but found out a couple off weeks after my 18th birthday. Then i started dating the person who i though was the love off my life turns out he wasn't. At 1st he was fantastic when we were friends he came to ante-natal appointments with me he was the same age as me then after BOW was born we started dating then i fell pregnant.

ANDREW my angel baby i was so happy but we were both scared we were both only 19 at that time BOW had just had her 1st birthday. However things soon took a turn for the worse with my pregnancy my waters broke at 17 wks turns out i had CMV early in pregnancy which caused alot off problems and unfortunately he never made it i gave birth to him in 2002 and he passed away before he was born and we buried him 1 week after my 20th birthday. Our relationship didn't survive however before i left him i fell pregnant again with BUG who has his own problems.

Thinks that's enough for now i'll write some more tomz along with a happier blog about BOWS pgl trip she's coming home today and i need to go and pick her up now.