By 9am I had already gotten dressed and had a beef stew cooking in the slow cooker. By 10am I had already got a load of washing on the line, the children were dressed, a picnic lunch was packed. By 11am we were standing in the car park at Highdown Gardens awaiting the two families …
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Birthday Monitor Says…
Happy Birthday Hannah!! Hope you’re having a lovely day, lots of love from Nic, Ady, Davies & Scarlett xxx
Little bit of this and a little bit of that…
I got most of what I needed to get done done today but none of it was particularly spectacular so I am without any great sense of achievement really. 🙁 I hate bank holidays. When I was a child my parents always seemed to spent the extra time off work as an opportunity to row …
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Autonomy-oh-my!
I’ve had this post bubbling in me for a couple of weeks. I’ve chatted to some of you in real life about a conversation with a woman who insisted she had the definition of ‘autonomy’ (except she called it autonomative, which really annoyed me! 😉 ) and was not up for debating it. My definition …
We like to move it, move it…
with apologies to everyone who now has that ringing in their ears! We’ve had a blissfully people free day today, having had my parents around for the last two days and for dinner both nights we have really appreciated not having to be remotely sociable today. 🙂 The children were awake early, Ady got up …
Bracing…
The weather forecast for today was lovely. It wasn’t lovely of course, it was windy all day with heavy showers happening from about 2.30pm onwards but it is a bank holiday after all. So we’d had this plan to go to Devils Dyke for a wander about and my parents had said they’d come too. …
Dancing the dance that will never never die!
Bit of scene setting Chez Goddard this morning for a tale which for once needs no embellishment or creative licence from me 🙂 Scarlett and I had just had a bath together so she was naked with dripping wet hair and I believe wearing lipgloss, Davies and Ady had been tidying up the playroom and …
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You had a temper like my jealousy
Really tired today, it feels like Friday’s been a long time coming and I feel drained and knackered but in a happy and positive way. Bring on the weekend! 🙂 We didn’t get to Blockbusters as Ady drew my attention to the fact there were already loads of films on TV being Good Friday we …
Grand Days Out
Probably the week after next (I’m semi planning for Tuesday 25th) I’m taking Davies up to London to go to the Pixar exhibition at the Science Museum. Anyone fancy joining us or meeting up for lunch / play in the basement / wander round afterwards? Also planning a Legoland trip, probably sometime in May. Does …
Always going to be an anticlimax
When you’ve had a houseful of up to 9 children, a drip feed of junk food and snickerdoodles, various adults bribing you with things to go and play and films, games, inside and outside play all with minimal supervision for three days to go back to normal and spent time with your cousins instead. And …
Must be missing something..
Just finished Catcher in the Rye and have utterly failed to see what the fuss might be about. I found it like a olden times version of listening to Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard doing a written monologue (the yeahbutnobutyeahbut teen). The repetitive ‘slang’ and dialogue feel to it irritated me, I’ve found myself wanting to …
Photos
With the absence of Chris and Ady the usually most photographically documented children getting together is fairly barren image wise, BUT Davies and Scarlett have both been showing loads of interest in the camera recently. They both had a play with it this morning, Davies taking a load of images around the place which had …
Back after the break
Monday Spent the morning getting in some food shopping (seriously over estimated on the milk, seriously under estimated on the bread, got the alcohol quantities about right! 😉 ), tidying up a bit, getting the children to gather any precious belongings and stashing them in our bedroom and batch baking snickerdoodles. Layla and Alison arrived …
That Sunday feeling…
It’s been a very long day today, we seem to have had loads of stuff crammed into it. Scarlett ended up in our bed with a bad dream in the night and around 5am when I woke to find her sleeping on my head – snoring 🙄 – I decided I’d make use of her …
Birthday monitor says…
Happy Birthday Helen! Hope you have a lovely, lovely day 🙂 Look forward to seeing you soon for real life glass clinking xxx
stereotypical gender role domestic bliss
Had another lovely day here 🙂 This morning we mostly lazed around and then I remembered I’d promised ebay buyers I’d get their wins in the post today so I dashed around parcelling up three loads of outgrown clothes and headed off to the post office. Came back for lunch and then Ady took the …
Like a Catherine Cookson novel round here today
with four generations of females all in the same room. Ady went off to work at some ungodly hour, Scarlett woke around 6am and a had a fit that Daddy wasn’t there to pander to her every whim. I left her to it and within ten minutes she’d reappeared beside the bed for a cuddle, …
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And it was :-)
I spent some time being educated in exactly what the Wallace and Gromit on Holiday game was all about. What happens is they gather all sorts of essential items (books usually although sometimes changes of clothing, pens and paper for drawing and assorted toys) and load the stair up with them. A map of the …
Today will be better…
Had a ranty session at Ady when he got home last night. Ady, like Davies the day before is really rather good at dealing with ranty females. He listened, nodded in agreement at all my woes, smiled reassuringly when I listed things I thought I was doing well and looked aghast at anything I tried …
‘Again? It’s my middle name’
As in do I really have to say the same things again and again and again. If my middle name was Again then my initials would be NAG which would be very apt right now. 🙄 But let’s do some focussing on the positive shall we? Went to the scrap store today with my Mum, …