One word? When seven would do…

Yesterday was exactly the Saturday a good doctor would have prescribed for me. I’d had a shit week, I’d had enough of being Mummy, enough of being broke and not nearly enough of being Nic. Yesterday I was more Nic than I’ve been in weeks and weeks and it was good! 🙂

And I am still feeling positive on the wrong side of two crap nights’ sleep and no alcohol last night too 😯

Yesterday morning I laid in bed attempting to go back to sleep after a bad night with Tarly in our bed stroking me and cuddling me (all very sweet but not condusive to sleeping really. Around 3am I sat upright, looked down at her all strewn across my pillow where she had been playing with my hair and asked her ‘What are you doing Scarlett?’ Her reply was to look up at me with very wide eyes and say ‘Oh you’re the best Mummy in the whole world Mummy!’. 🙄 Clearly she’s been getting lessons in being endearing from somewhere as like Davies and his ‘shyness’ that would be another quality she’s not inherited from me 😉 So there I was lying reading my book and listening to the noises of Ady and the kids drifting up the stairs when Ady arrived with a cup of tea in bed for me. 🙂 Ah, the weekend!

I then left them all to it and went off to a NCT nearly new sale (as blogged about on buymelove) where I got a load of lovely stuff for Tarly for bargain prices. She’s wearing possibly my favourite item of a fluffy orange top today and looks beautiful (and very HE) in it. I then went over to Tesco to get a cheapo plastic jug with US cup measurements on it, which resulted in a batch of the closest thing to Katy’s snickerdoodles I believe it is possible for me to get 😉 I also used butter rather than stork which seemed to keep the mix firmer and actually I need to shut about about this topic now as it’s not so long ago I blasted people for posting recipes in my comment box is it! 😳

So refreshed from being child-free, shopping, getting bargains and the prospect of a night out enjoying the comedic talent of messers Walliams and Lucas with my lovely husband I returned home for lunch. Scarlett did a mini fashion show for us all with her new clothes (now that she does get from me! 😉 ), we put a Frank Sinatra cd on and all sang and danced along for a bit, then there was a prolonged bathing went on. Ady had one but got hijacked by the children so got out. Then I removed them from the bath for various spitting and splashing offences. Then after some tears and apologies Ady started again with an undisturbed bath while I cut Davies’ hair, then I had a bath which Davies joined me in at the end. Scarlett continued in the fashion show vein and went through about four changes of pjs. 🙄

Then the kids had tea while Ady and I got ready to go out, my parents arrived to look after the children and off we went.

We had excellent seats, five rows back from the front right infront of the stage – close enough to count the body hairs on David Walliams when he stripped naked in the second to final sketch (prime minister’s aide one). It was very funny, not amazing script-wise but with enough ad lib to make you feel you were part of an audience rather than watching them on TV, there were various poor people dragged up on stage which is always fun to witness 😉 and probably the most exciting realisation of the evening came during the interval when I worked out that the couple two rows infront of us looked so familiar was not because I actually knew either of them, it was because they were Maxwell and Saskia off of Big Brother 2005!!!! So they are still together and very loved up, still looking quite chavtastic and clearly not doing well enough out of being ex BB ‘stars’ to afford any better seats than we could! ;-). End of.

We remained in budget for the evening by getting a KFC on the way home which we sat in the car in the town centre of one of the towns between here and Brighton and ate, watching the ‘yoof’ marauding around and speculating on how long it was since we were the ones spending Saturday night like that and how long it might be before our own children are doing it…

This morning we’ve been off to a car boot sale braving the mud. There were far fewer people around although we were probably a half hour later arriving than last week and we didn’t find anything for Davies. We got two polly pocket playsets again for Scarlett – this time a 101 Dalmations one and a Beauty & the Beast castle. Both utterly filthy and incomplete with lots of figures missing, but they cleaned up fine with an old toothbrush and some baby wipes and at 80p for the pair I think we did rather well! 🙂

Ady started cooking roast to have at lunchtime instead of dinnertime so the children could try some (Nigella’s ham in coca cola), the children settled down to play on the pc on Nick jr – Scarlett and following the dvd extras instructions on W&G to make plasticine figures – Davies, while I made my list of shopping for this weeks menus and popped up to Sainsburys.

We’ve now had a lovely lunch followed by apple and cinnamon crumble and cream (me, being muffiny again 😉 ), Davies has gone back to his plasticine, Ady is reading stories to Tarly and that Sunday afternoon feeling that I don’t recall having since childhood after a big lunch when really you should galvanise yourselves into going for a brisk walk or something has overcome the whole house.

Ady and I did lots of talking last night about all sorts of stuff – money, work, where we live and so on including a bit about HE – which I won’t bother blogging as having read Allie’s really rather excellent post over on Green House about HE she has said everything and far more, way better than I would have done. Might expand on the rest of it a bit later, but for now it’s been a big up and the end of a down week.