Last week of the School Summer Holidays 2022

So it is Wednesday and another day out exploring and today went to a local park. This is the last week until my son returns to school and so it is time to reschedule all my plans and I go by school year which is September to the following August. 

There are many places to explore and been walking a lot. Yesterday we walked along the river towards London Waterloo as my son is obsessed with the London Eye. He also wants to play rugby and so been getting lots of exercise which I have found good and so not been bad year and had many good sunny days. 

I am getting ready for the Autumn by planning more challenges and doing a new Programme called The Autumn reset and will be about getting ready for the change of season by helping me and you organized and sort ourselves out. 

This mean going through things I need to catch up on, and no longer need, and planning for 2023. 

It means getting ready for Halloween and fireworks night, and then it is yes, dare I say it, Christmas Time again. 

The one thing that is concerning is that a lot of people will be struggling, because of prices of things increasing. This means setting budgets and giving to others more than ever. I hate the thought of families struggling to put food on the table and having to pay the earth just to try have a good time this Autumn and Winter.

Helping each other through it, is the best support you can ever create as there will be ways in which we can save, like for example just buying one present for each person for Christmas and birthdays, create gifts like scrapbooks, collect flowers in the garden to give to someone and making Christmas decorations out of paper. I loved making paper chains as a kid and so why not making into a family project. 

I think we will get through it. Making Christmas and birthday cards is one of the best ways and make it more sentimental. My niece made a bit of card I had in my baseball cap into a bit of art for me and I loved it.

It is the simple things that can make the difference, because of the love behind it, and we spreading love is truly valuable and will still bring smiles to children and people's faces. 

So, lets work together and please I hope you had a good summer holiday and be ready for the new school year. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Typical London Gal 

Making the most of the holidays

Another week over and today I feel super tired that I was deciding whether to write a blog. I this morning spent time with my son, watching trains, playing football and rugby, and had not what I have not done in a while had a little nap.

I have a video to upload, but not in the mindset to do that now, sometimes I just need to take my time and listen to my body and mind. If your tired then your tired and you should never false yourself as it can destroy the energy out of me completely, but then I love blog writing and reaching out so going to write this blog and write more in the week or when in the evening after I have spent time with my son. 

It has been a good summer holiday and still got a week left, before my son goes back to school and want still get some bits into the week ahead and Henry wants to go back to Battersea park, where we went yesterday, Saturday and it was a good day out. 

You have to make the most of these times as you never know and since hearing about a young girl being shot, really makes me see that time is pressures and you just never know. I want my to have fun, and as much as possible and going to really enjoy this last week and will report to talk about going back to school and what is coming up in Autumn. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Kids and their independence and not nice people.

It is now coming to the end of another week, and last Sunday I went to my first Rugby League match, but on the way there this guy barges my son, and I told him off and then shouted something at me in a foreign language and just walked on. People can be so unkind that it effects your faith and worried should this happen again. 

My son wasn't playing up or anything to make that guy do what he did and my son was a little dumbfounded by it and kept going over it. I made him see that it is good to be kind, as he has lashed out before and so instead of going over it, talked about what happened, and not want to become like that man and be good. 

This was a complete stranger, and so would have gone after him,  but I didn't want that to make us not enjoy the day and so did what I could do to overshadow this, but he, Henry my son, kept going over it. It is sad that there are these type of people, and just because he may not be in a good place, doesn't mean that he should take it out on a child who is defenseless. 

Anyway, but this week has been good, Henry joined a Kids Club and loved it. He really does miss other children so was really good for him and then today we went Swimming. Yesterday Henry wanted to help me cook dinner and wasn't going to turn him down, and cooking and Swimming really help him development immensely. 

It is good for kids to gain as much knowledge on life skills because they will need to cook for themselves later on in life and he wants to do canoeing, hence why he is having Swimming lessons and taken him swimming for him to practice and is like male mermaid. 

There is nothing like seeing your kids grow, and yes there have been hurdles, as they can be very fussy with food, not want to play with other kids or want but find it hard to join in and kick off when there fun playing in the park is finished, and they protest in anyway they can. Yet seeing my boy grow into a flower has made it all worth. 

Many thanks for reading

Carrie X  

Being part of a crowd

Hello and welcome to my daily thoughts and feelings blog. It is Sunday and today I went to my first Rugby League match in what is 15 years, and it was good to see them, they were playing in Plough Lane, where AFC Wimbledon play, and they won. 

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I hoped to see anyone from when I last went to watch the Broncos, but not anymore, and it is a real shame as it was such a great crowd of people and so much fun. 

I would go to away and home games and did face painting and with a friend of mine, started a Supporters club Newsletter, and me and my friends would have a weekend away and go clubbing afterwards. 

Having got married and become a mum, life took over and have to settle that these old times were then and this is now. I would like to go again, and would like to take him to see AFC Wimbledon, as I have gone to a match before when they played at Kingstonians Ground.  

You've got to have fun times and I did in my teens and twenties. I was part of a crowd and was instantly welcomed to the club, and watched the London Broncos, when they became the The Crusaders. They played in a tiny ground called Barnet Copthall in London, and was a trek to get there but I didn't care. 

Life has many beginnings and things change and that is what I had to deal with as I do feel sentimental about the days when I would spend my weekends watching Rugby League, and loved the beginning of the day getting my rugby shirt ready, and when I lived in East Sheen and they played at the Stoop in Twickenham would walk there and met my friends and we'd all walk together to get ready to watch the matches. It was a massive part of my life and glad that I got to spend time doing this. 

I'd encourage others to do the same, follow something like a sports team, it can be such a good environment and great way to meet new people and make new friends. 

It is all about enjoyment and doing something different in the week or weekend, as it can get boring doing the same thing everyday. 

So go on make the most of your life and you never know where this can lead to. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X  

Typical London Gal 

Be Happy About yourself, us Affirmations to feel good

It is the evening and today it has been good, and tomorrow I am up early as I have an appointment yet not in bed, because of the heat, but also it takes a while for me to unwind and get tired enough to get some sleep. 

I am watching a Documentary about Celion Dion, where by she gets ready to return to Vegas and I enjoy watching these as I find them inspiring. It was a long time ago, but I don't care. I think my singing days are over, but helps me to follow my dreams and aspirations. 

I have just written in my Affirmations Journal, because I am started to see why I am here in this world. I love writing and so glad that this is a part of my life, like music. I would encourage anyone who loves writing to stick to it, and you never know where it will lead to. Just if you are passionate like me then follow it. 

We all want to be happier each year, but I can't be happy 24/7 that is not me, I will moan often and get annoyed like all of us, but I have learned how to handle those moments when I feel unhappy. I know how to get myself out of it, and this is my writing down Affirmations. 

I know not everyone is in to that, and I respect that, and it is what works for you. 

It has to be things that drive you forward not backwards and never fear your affirmations, but build on them, by telling yourself out loud, not shouting but in the mirror and to yourself not at. 

You should never fear feeling good about yourself in case someone thinks you are being big headed, because that is not the case. It feels good to feel satisfied at last about myself, and watching documentaries about those who have made it big, still have moments too of feeling low, but its their talents and their self belief that keeps them going. 

I want you all to feel the same. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Typical London Gal 

A Week to myself feels strange

This week I am having a week to myself and for my insanity I need it, because I can feel bogged down when I don't have that time, not that I don't miss spending time with my son of course I do or with family, its because we all need space. We all need to stop rushing around and give ourselves time to be quiet and enjoy our own company. 

I have a few appointments this week, and so not totally free, but enough for me to recharge my batteries include the items I enjoy like walking and exploring. 

Today as I begin this daily blog, by doing a indoor workout. 

This is not always possible so glad to have had that time. 

Its okay to be selfish at time, we are human beings after all and we all need that rest and be at peace with ourselves. 

Tomorrow I have my Teacher Assistant Training, and plan to go out in the morning to buy some bits before this begins. Yet now it that day, and so going out after training and going to read my book in the park, and then pick up bits to eat. It good to be able to take my time and just have a good wonder. 

I do get nervous about doing my course, no idea why but I think it is the fear of not getting it and not passing it. Yet afterwards feel okay about it. I am always conscious of myself. I have been filming more day in a life videos, and if you haven't seen them click here, on my Main Youtube channel to watch them: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDFIqjVKLy7NhtcR6Hy0Tg

My Life coaching programme, "The Summer Project 2022" to help you have a better summer and better life, is still going and have post some new blogs, aswell as videos on my blog site, https://everyonecanbuildacastle.com

I am listening to a podcast and it is Vinnie Jones, and love listening to these type of podcasts/videos and would like to do a podcast myself. 

If you didn't I have some online courses that my interest you on my Educational Network: https://carrieseducationnetwork.thinkific.com/

I also have books on amazon, under the names, Carrie Challoner, Carrie Lee Holmes and Carrie Holmes. 

There will be more to come on this blogsite too. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X

Typical London Gal 

 

 

Second week of the UK School Summer Holidays

It is Thursday evening and I am listening to Tony Robbins and it is late a night. I would like to get up early to write and write, and lose myself. Yet working late at night I enjoy too, but it gets later and later and so I regret it in the morning. 

This was my second week of the UK School Summer holidays, and today when I didn't want to go anywhere far found myself getting on the bus, train and then another train. I felt so out of energy, that even putting my feet ready to walk, felt like a high task. I crawled out of bed. 

I want to stop this feeling and I think I need to decide when do I work the best? Should it be morning or is it the evenings? I still not sure, but I am more conscious of the time in the evening, than I am in the morning, depending on what happens in the day. 

It is about getting balanced and dividing my tasks. I have a pile of clothes behind me that needs sorting out so going to do a reset to tidy up. I am a planner and like making lists. I like seeing the ticks and the strike through on my lists, going back through my notebooks, to see what I still haven't got done. 

I have begun to film some days in a life videos, showing my life through the Summer Holidays, and uploaded another day in a life video of the Platinum Jubilee, https://youtu.be/juIhwy_KKc I need a more of a filming schedule but not managed to do that yet. I prefer to film in the mornings before my day begins, but with my son who wakes up near 5am each morning, not been so lucky to do that. 

With the Summer Holidays comes to how to manage my work and to get up to date. Now I have a week to myself going to take the opportunity to get bits done and catch up. 

I need to remember I am only one person, so I am not here because I know how to do a list, but because I want to use what I do in my life to support and reach out to other people. So, more daily blogs to come. 

Enjoy the weekend 

It has been a week of adventure, but enjoyable and now off to bed. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X