August was a busy month!

It brought:
An awesome vacation (more to follow on this, excuse the Americanisms, we seem to have come home with more than a few!)
starting an insurance claim for work resulting from a leak in the bathroom that has left an attractive hole in the living room ceiling!
GCSE results. (see below)
a manic post-holiday period of preparing for year 8 at grammar for Katie, getting Sam enrolled at the new Mid Kent College, writing up a CV and him sending it out all over town in an attempt to find some weekend work.
the beginning of a long haul of holiday photo uploading, editing and scrapbooking the memories.

Proud mum moment - Sam picked up his GCSE results the day after we got back from Florida. As usual he was as cool as a cucumber, pretty sure he'd got passes in everything except History. He did absolutely fine....2 BTEC First Certificate passes in Sport and Art & Design, GCSE Grade Cs in Maths, Additional Maths, Statistics, Science, Additional Science, English, Business & Communication Systems, at grade D: a short course in RE and in English Literature (shame because he loved Of Mice and Men), and a little higher than he expected a grade E in History (again, a shame, he had quite an interest in the World Wars). We were all very happy with that lot, and means Sam does get his place on the BTEC National Diploma in Construction and Civil Engineering at the new Mid Kent College. He starts next Monday.

As for the holiday, as promised I'll be uploading some piccies and some of my trip report....