Knackered of Rum!

Oh for that cloning machine!

Off to school this morning where we were having an Easter event and had invited all the island kids and parents. In the end this only actually meant Davies and Scarlett, Fliss and Ali as Sean and Sandy didn’t come so I sent Ady away and Dave, Sylvia and Andrew didn’t appear. This made for a fairly stressy for me morning as the odd juxtaposition of theoretically being at work and therefore sort of responsible for being a hostess and helping with the activities for all the kids while also having my own kids there who wanted to do the activities but were being thwarted by Joss being wild was all a bit much. Argh school! 😉 Coryla had put loads of effort in and there was egg painting, bonnet making, drawing, egg rolling and egg and spoon racing. She’d also done some food which Davies and Scarlett didn’t want but on the basis that the little ones are being taught to sit nicely and eat together I felt they should at least sit with them for. I think I need to choose one loyalty and stick to it rather than trying to pull off all things at once sometimes…

Ady arrived as we were doing the egg racing outside so hung around for that and then we left at 1ish to come home for lunch. It was nice to actually have a breather and sit and chat to my kids for an hour. I don’t recall them being particularly hard work ever (although I do know I struggled with Scarlett as a toddler but I think a lot of that was in comparison to Davies) but they are a joy to be with most of the time these days. Then I was back down to the village for an ISCAPE meeting with Fliss. We divided up some of the tasks, I did a blog post for the Small Isles website, we both set up new pages on facebook for businesses – Fliss for Rum Crafts and me for Croft 3 and sent some emails out. We also drank lots of tea 🙂 From there on to a Bunkhouse / Rum Enterprise meeting and then home.

Mum & Dad made it to Fort William so by the time I get home from work tomorrow afternoon they will be here – Mum reminded me the other day that this will have been the longest we have EVER gone without seeing each other, Actually six months without seeing my parents has felt like a long time. I finish work for the Easter holidays tomorrow too and am looking forward to spring properly getting here, feeling like I have more of a grasp on stuff and getting into a rhthymn of what should be happening when.