We bought Davies and Scarlett one small Easter egg each, a couple of packets of small eggs to ‘hide’ around the lounge and a small present each for Easter. I hate all the excess packaging that comes with Easter eggs and refuse to get drawn into it being some sort of mini-Christmas type celebration but we started the egg hiding thing years ago and they enjoy it. Scarlett got a Fur Real duckling that she’d been wanting for ages and Ady finally found in Tescos about a month ago (she’d wanted it for Christmas but we’d not been able to find one).It turns out she was wanting a chick rather than a duckling and she is a bit cross that it has a bottle of milk to drink and even worse in her opinon, it burps once it’s drunk from it. She’s not at all happy at the idea that birds drink milk let alone out of bottles and dislikes the uncouthness of the belching! 😆 She’s so not a girl that would ever have wanted a weeing, wailing Baby Annabel or similar!
Davies got a ‘make your own comic’ set with a load of blank storyboard pages, some already filled in, a set of pens and loads of character stickers and speech bubbles – all Ben 10. He was delighted with it and spent ages this afternoon thinking up a storyline and colouring and drawing with it.
David and Jeanette /Annette had been over way back about 2 weeks ago with a bag of ‘easter presents’ which were revealed to be a toy car for Davies and a lurid lime green sparkly unicorn for Scarlett. Maureen left a bag on the doorstep earlier in the week with a chocolate bunny each for them and an Easter card so they’ve done well. I believe they have more eggs to come from Mum and Dad and Frazer and possibly my Granny too. We’ll no doubt be using excess chocolate to cook with a couple of weeks from now!
The big news this morning was not the presents or the chocolate however, it was that the first of the eggs in the incubator had hatched! It’s been followed through the day by five more and of the 6 eggs still in the incubator two have pips and look to be hatching too, so 8 / 12 may well be our best hatch yet. I guess it had to be on Easter day – real Easter chicks! 🙂
I insisted everyone got dressed today and had intentions of getting everyone out for some fresh air but it wasn’t to be. Scarlett and I did take a short walk to the local shop to try and get a light bulb as we discovered the brooder lamp had blown it’s bulb. The very local shop had a massive queue of about 20 people and only 40watt bulbs so we walked to the slightly less local but still quite local shop and they only had energy saving bulbs which are great but no use for giving out plenty of heat which is what we want it for. Scarlett slumped on the way home and had to have a piggy back though.
Ady and I are pretty much recovered from being ill, although we both have lingering coughs but the children are both still really knocked out by it. They both slept for a couple of hours again this afternoon – Scarlett went to bed and Davies on the sofa which is just unheard of for them. They both look washed out and energy-less. It really has been a horrible bug and I’m just glad we didnt have anything to cancel or miss out on this week.
I rang my Mum who was all for coming over to see us but I put her off and then she rang me back as my Granny had been ringing us (and being ignored) so had rung her. She wanted me to ring her back but I got really cross and refused. I can’t see why none of them could seem to accept that we are all ill, feel crap and antisocial and just want to be left alone. Surely family duty shouldn’t have to extend to making phonecalls and receiveing visitors (who would only sit around and expect to have tea and coffee made for them anyway!!!!) when you feel ill. I could understand if there were offers to bring over food / shopping / run the hoover round but that wouldn’t ever happen anyway. Or maybe I’m just extra grumpy and intolerant at the moment.
Ady made a lovely roast beef lunch which both children slept through but he and I enjoyed eating together. A couple with a young child in a pushchair were standing on the pavement outside watching our cockerel for ages and I was all for asking them if they’d like to see the chicks but Ady was having none of it! When the children woke up they had their dinner and both had baths and hairwashes although Scarlett’s hair needs a good brush as it is all tangled.
I had a go at the microwave cake in a mug recipe which turned out really well and we all had for pudding and eventually, because sleep patterns are all over the place round here at the moment, everyone has gone to bed and finally to sleep.
Looking forward to some sort of return to normality tomorrow although I suspect the children will be running at far from full capacity for a few more days yet.