is what today was 🙂
I was playing catch up this morning having not gone to bed til about 230am and then not got up til nearly 10am. 😳 I then did some speedy housework, rounded up D&S and we headed off to the library. I wanted them to join the Summer Reading Game before it got all mad and busy with school children 😉 so we enjoyed parking in the LIBRARY STAFF ONLY parking spaces in the otherwise very full with a queue waiting for spaces carpark and headed in there to sign up. The children were super confident and chatty, and of course, being my children were utterly indulged by all four of my colleagues who were working today 🙂 They did the hunt the character thing around the library, chatted away to everyone and anyone and chose stickers and their first two books each. Then we popped into the supermarket to get various bits and pieces of food for today where they were both utterly charming, helpful and lovely. Whilst in the queue Helen rang to say they were already at our house and liked our chickens 😳 thereby cementing my position as craphostess 😆
We dashed home, made drinks, let the children do their thing and during the day Ali and Freya, Lucy, Richard & Rebecca and Ros with No Children At All arrived to be part of the day. It was really lovely 🙂 They children mostly played outside, the adults mostly sat and chatted inside, we enjoyed lots of phones trilling at once with twitters, Ros did some NLP(;-)) stuff, well ok it wasn’t NLP it was some sort of mind over matter type stuff, Elinor showed Scarlett a better way to climb up the doorframe than she’d already been doing, Alys was lovely, Freya got the hang of the Shoe Law straight away, Richard didn’t. Rebecca showed us her gymnastics and Davies was Mostly Being Doctor Who Even If No one Else Wanted To Play! 😆 I had lots of various chats in the kitchen with various people which was lovely and enjoyed being hostess without doing an awful lot :). Oh and there was a chicken in the road type incident which resulted in no deaths but possibly answered the ‘why did the chicken cross the road?’ question for us! 😆
Freddie – the first born and by far most adventurous chicken delighted us all by flying up to the washing line and roosting on a pair of my jeans! 🙂
Gradually everyone except Chris and Helen left, Ady came home, we fed the children and retired to the garden while they had baths in various combinations, then ate ourselves, cutting it fine as usual between acceptable eating time and Goddard eating time at about 10pm (we often eat at 11pm so that was almost early 😉 ). C&H left, Davies and Scarlett and Ady went to bed – Ady via Davies’ room, I sat with Scarlett and sang her songs and talked to her about great grandparents. And now I am feeling the effects of decent wine rather than under three quid a bottle wine and really should go to bed given I am due to be walking across the downs in under 11 hours time :). Thanks all who came for a lovely day – it was great. 🙂
It was really great being there except for the few seconds that I thought you’d renamed my sweet little boy ‘Devil Kid’ behind my back. Lol.
I suppose wearing chicken poo in your jeans would be nothing compared to vomit. (There see, I can do that thing too 😉 )
Thanks for inviting us, it was great.
Comment by Lucy — 17 July 2007 @ 11:29 pm
He’s a gorgeous kid 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 18 July 2007 @ 7:52 am
Thanks for a lovely afternoon, we both really enjoyed it and it was great to see everyone.
Comment by Ali — 18 July 2007 @ 11:09 am
sounds like a great day 🙂
Comment by layla — 18 July 2007 @ 4:28 pm
we loved it too. home now, and thought i would hurriedly say what a great time we had.
Comment by HelenHaricot — 22 July 2007 @ 9:53 pm