in a too many cooks type way.
When you are married to someone like Ady who tends to cosset and run around after you rather a lot anyway it can actually be quite hard to make mothers day feel different to a normal day.I did request that the radio NOT be turned on in the kitchen when he got up as he has a habit of doing so then wandering off into another room and leaving it on and it drifts up the stairs and intrudes on my sleep when I have a lie in. Normally I appreciate just how spoilt-brat a request this is, last night I felt Mothers Day was enough of a reason to make the request for this morning ;). I said I would accept visitors after 9am 😆
Scarlett came up and patted me on the head around 9ish and asked if I wanted her to bring my card up. I agreed she could and got up to have a wee and put my contact lenses in so I could see what was happening. They were speedier than I was though and we ended up all squished in the little bathroom while I sat on the floor naked infront of the mirror trying to put lenses in while they tried to foist gifts and cards upon me. I persuaded them the bedroom would be better and we went and sat on the bed while I was presented with a lovely card from each of them – Davies’ has he and I digging on the allotment complete with me in my beloved wellies. Scarlett’s is interesting in that I’m not too sure at which point of my body she started it but she ran out of room for both my feet and the top of my head 😆 I had a new pillow for camping and a box of chocolates aswell as a cake very comprehensively decorated by Scarlett at Rainbows.
Ady had run me a bath, made me a cup of tea and was full of elaborate breakfast suggestions he could make me but I declined breakfast and enjoyed a bath with my tea. I dried my hair with the hairdryer which I almost never do but it is at a very annoying inbetween stage of growing out and can be even more unruly than usual so needed a bit of taming this morning.
I decorated the triple layer cake Tarly and I made yesterday with pink whipped cream and pink edible glitter then Davies and I settled down to about 2 hours of playing professor Layton together on his DS. Ady and Scarlett were in the garden among other things planting up a hanging basket to give my mum.
At 1pm we headed over to my parents for lunch. Granny was there too and Frazer even got up despite Mum saying she didn’t expect to see him as he’d not gotten home until the early hours and he was rather delicate ;). We had a really nice lunch with wine and the kids were really funny parodying some of the things my parents come out with regularly. Granny was on top annoying form and managed to really wind my mum up although I think she remained oblivious. She also came out with a racist rant about Germans which I intercepted when I realised how much attention Davies and Scarlett were paying by explaining over her loudly that ‘Great Granny is expressing an opinion. That is fine aslong as she precedes what she is saying with ‘I think’ and makes it clear it is her opinon and a personal viewpoint rather than presenting it as fact!’ Again I think she was largely oblivious but grrr just the same.
After dinner we retired to the lounge where Scarlett sat with Frazer and they played Harvest Moon on her DS together and Davies made the most of noone else monopolising me and sat with me playing Professor Layton on his DS. Dad and Ady watched the football which sort of left Granny and Mum at a loose end. I did feel a bit bad what with it being Mothers Day at all but was far happier having some one to one time with Davies than trying to think up ways to entertain them and decided they could work things out for themselves really.
Later on Frazer went out and Granny did play with Davies and Scarlett freeing me up to go and chat to my Mum where Dad also joined us in the kitchen so I did do my daughterly duty in the end.
We left at about 730pm as it was dark and the chickens needed putting away plus Davies was very tired and I was conscious of going to London tomorrow. Don’t know why I bother really as he was downstairs at 1030pm asking for a glass of water – you can take a Davies to bed but you can’t make him sleep :rolls: The kids had toast and we finishedthe last Mr Gum story.
Tonight I’ve been drinking pink fizz (partially to give an air of a celebratory day to the evening and partially cos it’s that or all the half bottles of alcohol like bacardi and mead and erm meths that we have kicking about as I’ve run out of real wine ;)) and Ady made me a lovely big bowl of pesto pasta with bacon and pine nuts. And now, given there will no doubt be plenty of chivvying to be done in the morning, I’m off to bed.