is clearly very very late nights for small children while grown ups get very very drunk 🙂 result is everyone sleeps through the night (well I think the children do, but if they don’t we are too drunkenly unconscious to care or be disturbed by it!)
Almost bored of saying we had another lovely day today, but actually we did 🙂 First thing we hot footed it to Jenny’s for business related chat and children communing in the back garden with the two kittens proving a huge hit. Tarly later asked me ‘where Fergus?’ and Davies proclaimed that he ‘loved Carys’ so that was a popular destination obviously! 🙂 Jenny and I even managed some fairly proactive business chat in amongst the general chat which was also lovely – how lucky I am to have so many good local HE friends (and I know HE does not have to be a prerequisite for friends but it is nice!) with the kids all getting on as an added bonus 😉 Had lunch there and as a result of Tarly disgracing herself just as we were about to leave (running late anyway) re her nappyless status (involved a mat, two nappy sacks, a chucked out pair of pants and at least half a packet of baby wipes – not nice!) we arrived at Tumble Tots for the last session of the ‘school year’ late. We dashed in – Scarlett and I – and joined in and had a whale of a time as it was an unstructured, go wherever you want type of session – I went to call Davies in and found him sitting reading a Dr Seuss book with Julie – the main TT2 lady, she then brought him in and he joined in with the end of the session. They finished up with parachute play which both my two love (practically the only thing they miss about TT1 actually) so that was great. I then smuggled Tarly in for most of Davies’ session which was in a similar unstructured vein and ended with more parachute play. I did try to combine good parenting with texting but my battery died so that was the end of that!
Somewhere inbetween classes I managed to have a chat with Julie – the in charge lady about last week and my concerns about Davies’ behaviour. She was totally reassuring that he is lovely and a normal typical boy but also understood where I was coming from and assured me that next ‘term’ he would be treated very differently as he goes up a class, most of that particular clique will not be in his class anyway and they are more into a gym type class without the action songs and so on that are part of it now. So feeling better about that 🙂
Got home to find Ady had delivered one of these and set it up in the garden in our absence so that allowed me to change all the beds and pack up supplied to take over to Ros’ house while they were distracted. He arrived home shortly after us and we were on the road only shortly after we were supposed to be there 😉
Arrived to find Joyce, Bob and Hannah and a new HE contact already in situ so poured my only alcoholic drink (designated driver) of the evening prepared to make it last. Tony was cooking up a storm on their barbecue and our meat turned out to be totally unrequired (hospitality being one of Ros’ many qualities!) Davies was lost into the midst of chez Scream Team almost straight away but Tarly was in a clingy mood having slept all the way there and complaining of a hurting tummy so Ady was to get no respite. 🙁 He quickly decided he would not drink which of course enabled me to do so 🙂 In honour of his great sacrifice it would have been rude not to fully make use of this so I proceeded to keep topping up Joyce and my glasses with wine! Those of you who’s mobile numbers I was capable of recognising through my haze before my phone died again would have gotten some sort of incoherant text from us at that point! 🙂 There was a video text recorded too but I am not sure whether anyone would have actually received that!
Drank steadily until about 10pm, Ady and I both made a show of ourselves by having a go on the trampoline (there is photographic evidence of this – if Ros is cruel enough or indeed if I am looking suitably gravity enhanced in any of ours you may yet get to see it!) before the feeble cries of our offspring to ‘go home now, pleeeeeeeease’ finally wore even me down and home we came. Ady now asleep, kids fell asleep on the way home and I am not long for my bed myself.
Got perfectly coherent text message – even if it didn’t arrive til lunchtime today – must have gone the long way around 😉
Comment by jax — 23 July 2005 @ 2:47 pm
Mine looked totally sober as well, despite claiming to be drunken! thank you 🙂 I wished I was there too 😉
Comment by Sarah — 23 July 2005 @ 4:28 pm
mine looked ok, and i replied
Comment by HelenJ — 24 July 2005 @ 10:36 am