The right side of three – count ’em THREE- nights sleep (yes that’s right folks, probably the longest ever stretch of consecutive nights she has slept through in her life!) it was a lovely day 🙂
I was up first – 6am, downstairs by 6.45am but it did give me a lovely couple of hours with the kids doing the drawing blogged in the pics below and I also sat with my laptop in the lounge and did a couple of hours work on and off which I will email across tomorrow, so that was productive 🙂
The sun was shining and the birds were singing here again today. I popped up to Sainsburys for the weeks food shopping without children 🙂 and then after lunch we headed over to Chris and Julie’s.
We had a lovely afternoon in the garden. The kids got muddy, soggy and worn out running around playing games really nicely. I wore my sunglasses and spent most of the time lying on a rug chatting about nothing to Chris and Julie while Ady was videoing and taking pictures of the kids. We covered all sorts of nonsense such as Dr Who, car boot sales, planning the kids’ summer wardrobes and Easter all of which was very relaxing and Sunday afternoon-ish. Don’t know if I have blogged this before but I know I am prone to saying it a lot. When we lived in Manchester one of the first things I noticed (and missed about the South) was how little sky there seemed to be. Not sure if it was the taller buildings or simply a more built up area – bearing in mind I have lived the rest of my life sandwiched in that small strip between the English Channel and the South Downs so there is nothing south of us and just the rolling downs north of us but there just seems to be such a bigger expanse of sky up above us here. Well anyway today was a perfect vast expanse of sky day – the hedges in C&Js garden mean you are not overlooked at all so lying on my back all I could see over the top of their hedges was perfect blue sky with fluffy clouds like the ones on the titles of The Simpsons and the occassional plane leaving a trail across it 🙂 Bliss! We also spent some time trying to recall cloud names from long forgotten geography lessons – infact we all agreed to do some research on them and report back next week so must do that and sort out my cirruses and nimbuses again!
We came home via McDs and kids were bathed and asleep very quickly. Two messages on the answerphone, one from Frazer to cancel coming over tonight and a hilarious one from my Mum calling from Hong Kong – we have an answerphone with no speaker so it does not play out loud while you are recording your message. We have had this phone for at least 2 years and I have told her countless times that calling loudly into the phone ‘Yoo hoo Nicola are you there? Nicola? Nicola? you’re not there are you?’ is pointless and furthermore a useless message to leave! This one was even funnier as she did the whole ‘are you there?’ number before saying to my Dad (obviously stood next to her) ‘I’ve got through to her answerphone but she’s not picking it up’ and then hanging up 🙂 pmsl bless her!
Scarlett fell out of bed with a most spectacular crash about an hour ago so Ady has gone to bed convinced that she is now unconscious as opposed to just asleep. She has just stirred so I went in and she is clearly fine – perhaps it will aid her sleep for another whole night although I am not hopeful of anything at this stage, merely thankful for what we have already received 🙂
Tomorrow Drusillas with Ros and Pea and Boo and Dylan 🙂
Wow Nic – three nights hope the next two are just as good. K xx
Comment by Karen b — 21 March 2005 @ 11:24 pm