As I was early to rise – and won’t be about tonight either.
Up before 6am this morning with Tarly, but I suppose it is still preferable to being up ‘in’ the night. I did manage to snuggle into her bed with her for a while though and get a little more snoozing 🙂
Davies was up shortly afterwards so we watched The Land Before Time on video that I had picked up yesterday. They both got really into that and sat snuggled up with me on the sofa watching it while I did the first of this week’s CVs.
Ady got up then so I went to get dressed, got the kids dressed and then I took Tarly out with me while Davies and Ady did some gardening. We needed to go to Sainsburys for a few bits (top of the shopping list was wine, obviously 😉 ), then we went to Boots and Tarly got to push one of the children’s trolleys which she has never done before. I always have Tarly either in a trolley or in her pushchair when we are shopping as her and Davies together are too giddy to just walk along beside me, but when she is on her own she is a pleasure to be out and about with and walks along holding my hand and being very sensible.
We walked all round Boots looking at all the makeup, perfumes and stuff. She saw some Barbie perfume so she had a spray of that and has been proudly asking everyone to ‘smell me’ all day ever since 🙂 Got several ideas for Christmas and birthday gifts for her just from that little trip 🙂 She’s so girly!
Then we called into see my parents for an hour or so. It was really nice to just be the two of us, the interaction and dynamic is so different. As much as I enjoy the fact that Davies and Scarlett spend so much time together I do really enjoy having one of them to myself at a time too. They become an interesting companion instead of just half of ‘the kids’ – something I swore I would always value in each of them, but we seldom get the chance to do. They have spent a lot of the last year seemingly at the same sort of level but suddenly Davies has streaked ahead again and the age gap seems to have stretched again – which means that they are often competing for my attention instead of being complementary to each other. Sadly Scarlett usually comes out far better from this as she has in the main identified that tantrums don’t work so she gets her attention from being either very clever or very cute – positive stuff. Davies does either very loud, very silly or very, very annoying – far more negative.
So Ady and Davies had some good bloke time this morning while Tarly and I did some girly shopping – oh how stereotypical! 😉
Came home and hung three loads of washing out, which I must remember to get in later otherwise it will get rained on and end up out there for a week like the load I finally brought in this morning! Made some lunch for everyone and then shoved some chocolate chip muffins with chopped up rolos in the oven too. Recipe I found on the internet and they are very yummy but due to it being an aga recipe I must have messed up either the timing or the oven temp as they have not risen properly. Still taste lovely but look a little flat!
Just as we finished lunch we heard the unmistakable sound of a motorbike pulling up and our friend Will appeared at the door. Ady had seen him at work (he works for B&Q still) last week and said to him to pop round sometime, so he had! Ady and he used to live together years ago and he and I were a couple for a while a long time ago (yes, that Will – for those who have heard some of my life story!) so lots of ‘have you seen x?’ type conversations went on while the kids showed off for the ‘visitor’!
Right, the house is a state – although it does smell pleasantly of home baking! – and my parents will be here in about an hour ready to take over bathing and putting to bed of children while we go off out for the evening with Frazer.
What are the chances of that happening? 🙂