I think it was the eve of my ninth birthday when I went to Brighton for the day with my Mum and she bought me a new winter coat and wellies. The coat was blue and the wellies were red and I loved them both. When we got home I wore them all round the house and annoyed my brother (who would have been 6) but bouncing around and singing ‘jump, jump, jump, it’s my birthday tomorrow!’
Repeatedly.
😆
I still send him a text every year on 5th January saying ‘jump, jump, jump, it’s my birthday tomorrow’ because it’s not always the younger sibling who is the annoying one ;). Anyway I told Davies and Scarlett this story a couple of years ago and now they have adopted it too. It may well become a long held family tradition and in several hundred years time there will be decendants of mine prancing around in wellies (we don’t bother with the wellies here but they may want to go all retro and keep it real and stuff) singing it and quoting ‘great, great, great, great, great, great grandma Nic (always Nic, never Nicola ;)) on their birthday eves. Then again it may well end up forgotten eventually.
So today it has been Davies’ turn to be singing it and sing it he has :).
I’d had a bad night’s sleep thanks to further upset stomachness, Ady said he slept badly as he’s not used to a bed anymore 😆 and for two children who have sleep deficits to be dealing with Davies and Scarlett were also up fairly early so we were all bimbling about downstairs well before 9am. We talked about what to do today and fairly unanimously decided ‘nothing’ was in order.
I did some washing, put loads of music onto my new phone, flickr’d and finished blogging the week away and lots of ‘last cuddles while I’m 8′ with Davies.
Ady swept out the fire and brought in the coal and log bucket ready for fire lighting indoors. I’m not sure it’ll actually be happening for a while but it’s nice to have it there all autumny looking.
Davies and Ady made some Star Wars figures from an old cardboard box while Scarlett did a pom pom animal kit she found somewhere. We all watched Blast Lab and Horrible Histories which seemed to be on a loop on CBBC.
Scarlett wore her pjs all day only changing just before bed into a clean pair.
Ady cooked a lovely roast dinner which we all ate together at about 7pm, then we watched X Factor and the kids went to bed.
It’s been a very mellow, chilled out, reconnecting with home sort of day, which has been nice :).
I’ve wrapped Davies’ presents up and now as it’s become tomorrow in the time it’s taken me to write this I’m off to bed as I suspect I’ll be woken early in the morning!