The weather changed from threatening rain and being all cold and gloomy all morning and the sun broke through just as we arrived at the PYO farm. Another HE friend met us there so there were 9 of us altogether. We picked strawberries, peas, broad beans and onions. At one point Scarlett stayed with the strawberry pickers and Davies went off with Julie to pick sugarsnap peas which I don’t like (taste like runner beans to me!) while I picked normal peas so I was without children – felt very odd seeing them both in the distance on either side.
And now I’m home alone! Ady’s taken Davies to Badgers and he and Scarlett are waiting outside in the car – Scarlett’s watching Peter Pan on the in car dvd player and Ady is revising. I’m off to work in about an hour. This is the longest I will have been home on my own since I had children – noone has ever taken them out while I’ve stayed at home before – it feels very strange and really rather lovely. The quiet is amazing :). I do of course have a job list to keep me going during this hour, including washing strawberry juice off my hands and getting changed ready for work, clearing out my car so Ady can have it on Friday and I can have his and running the hoover round, so the feeling of utter freedom is slightly hampered and about to go away again 🙂
C started going to football again when Poppy was about 9 months old I guess, so he would take her to Reading with him and dumnp her with one of his parents for the afternoon. I really can hardly believe that even Ady has never taken them both out anywhere for a reasonable amount of time.
I like PYO except you always pick too much, lol!
Comment by Alison — 06 June 2007 @ 6:59 pm
I think it was probably longer than 9 months before I was home alone with no children – but not as long as 6.5 years! It is a slightly surreal feeling even now, I find.
Comment by Sarah — 06 June 2007 @ 7:14 pm
I guess it is weird, but then it was only earlier this year that I spent my first night away from them in over six years too – and we know that was barely 12 hours before they came and joined us 😆
I suppose because there is only Ady who would have taken them out and if I wasn’t doing anything else then I’d have gone out with them rather than stay home it’s just never happened.
Picked two massive punnets of strawberries, although we’ve already eaten about half, a bag of broad beans for Ady and some peas for us to eat raw from the pods. All for about £7 – such a bargain 🙂
Comment by Nic — 06 June 2007 @ 10:28 pm
Si started taking J out when he was a couple of months old & it was pretty much the same with C. I much prefer being at home without them t going out for a ‘rest’ IYKWIM
Comment by layla — 07 June 2007 @ 7:08 am