D woke me before 7am whispering ‘Mummy, it’s your day!’ I agreed that indeed it was and fell asleep again. Ady woke me at 8am with a cup of tea for which I issued grateful thanks and went back to sleep. They all appeared at 9am so I got up 🙂 My Dad arrived shortly afterwards for a lesson on maintaining Hatchwatch in our absence next week.
Both children had made me Mothers Day cards – complete with explained pictures and lovely writing inside 🙂
Davies’
Scarlett’s
I got a box of Thorntons and a flower made by D at Badgers last week
Dad gave me the money for Davies’ swimming lessons due to start weekly after Easter (having been on the waiting list there for the best part of 2 years his name has finally reached the top – hurrah! 🙂 ) and then went home. I made some cards for my Mum and Granny with the children – Davies drew my Granny and Scarlett drew my Mum – I love kid’s interpretations of people, their pictures are just the best caricatures picking out one or two features on someone, I think in every picture my kids draw of me they focus heavily on my orange hair and always dress me in a green top – sort of like a different coloured, female version of Bod :lol:.
We called in to the swimming pool to pay for Davies’ lessons and then went to my parents house. My Mum was in full on hostess mode and insisted I did nothing (my Dad did jest that I probably wouldn’t struggle too much in achieving that :lol:) so I sat on the sofa chatting to my Dad while Ady and Mum cooked, Davies and Scarlett sat in the kitchen drawing and playing shops with my Granny and Frazer. It was great. 🙂 Dad and I spent some time on the internet looking up his relatives on the 1851 and 1901 census online service which was interesting, and checking his premium bonds online too. Dad is perpetually amazed by the internet and how you can just do anything on it.
Mum cooked a really lovely meal and the kids not only ate everything on their plates they ate with wonderful table manners, plenty of compliments for the food and were just so well behaved :). After eating Davies spent some time playing on the nickjr website with various adults watching over his shoulder, Tarly wandered between adults spending some time sitting with me playing online jigsaw puzzles and the rest of us drank tea and enjoyed family in-jokes. It was a lovely day. 🙂
We left there just after 6pm as the children were starting to get tired and I didn’t want the loveliness to be spoilt by an unpleasant last half hour. The kids had a bath (showers only for the rest of the week, but I think that youth hostel showers are ok 😉 ), I packed our bags ready to go in the morning and wrote down routes etc. Kids were asleep pretty early and I think we’re all set for the off tomorrrow morning. 🙂
Sounds like a wonderful day. Hope you have a great week.
Comment by Lucy — 19 March 2007 @ 8:27 am