Yesterday Ady was QVCing in the morning so he had to leave home about 430am. He was on just after 930am and for once Davies and Scarlett sat and watched all of it. They normally wander off bored after a minute or so. It wasn’t the lure of seeing Daddy on tv that kept them watching, it was the excitement of seeing the bowls, plate and vegetables we bought in Asda the day before on the telly! 😆 😆
On Friday afternoon while Dad was here the children made themselves hot chocolate by heating milk in the microwave and adding instant powder. This is apparently thrilling to do and to drink so we are going through pints and pints of milk as they make it for themselves and everyone else. This means the kitchen smells permanently of chocolate and the worktops need wiping down often :lol:.
We had six bananas which were very ripe and needed using so Scarlett and I made chocolate and banana cake traybakes, then as we were in the mood for bakin’ we made snickerdoodles and cheese scones. Davies watched cartoons :rolls: and then Ady came home. They all went in the garden while I cleared the kitchen up and sat debating whether to go out for a walk by myself or to agree to Davies’ request to go to the park with his bike. It then poured with rain which brought everyone back indoors again and put paid to any plans to go out anywhere as it continued to sunshine and showers in a very April-y manner.
Eventually I decided to go jeans shopping – every pair I own either has holes at the knee, sewn up patches where they’ve ripped elsewhere or ‘unique customisation’ by Scarlett with permanent marker! Noone wanted to come with me (surprise! ;)) so I had a lovely hour or so all alone browsing the shops. I did get some new jeans, which have now given a bit and keep falling down :rolls: and a couple of very cheap tops :). I think wardrobe declutters for me and the children are on my to do list this week, might try and list some stuff on ebay or freecycle too, I’ve got a dejunking bug (must be spring!).
Back home Davies was watching Ben 10 the movie,utterly thrilled at it’s very existance. Ady and Scarlett had tidied her bedroom (it was a long overdue task) and were playing with the Barbie stuff (TV’s Adrian Goddard in playing with out of proportion naked dolls shocker!). Ady and I had baths and got prettied up then my parents arrived. I watched Dr Who with Davies before we left and Dad came with us to bring our car home and come and collect us later :). They probably do evening babysitting for us just once or twice a year so I do like to make the most of each occassion ;).
We had a fab evening, despite being utterly shocked at the prices of drinks, and it was a private club so not even full pub prices :shock:. It was a 40th birthday party for one of Ady’s workmates and there were a select few people from Ady’s work there who we mixed with. Another workmate is the lead singer with a band playing live music there so there was drinking and dancing and plenty of full on fun and silliness :). Dad came to collect us around midnight and ended up coming in and joining us for another hour before we finally headed for home. I was in that happy happy place where it is very important you do not consume another drop of alcohol otherwise you cross to the dark side of drunk – so I sat and chatted to – or probably more acurately talked at – my parents for a while. 🙂
This morning we did a sort of lie in relay with A going back to bed when I got up. After sausage, bacon and egg I felt altogether less delicate and we headed over to the Plantearium again for a show about the planets which was the second show on my list. Next I want to see the one about the Northern Lights but we’ll leave it a couple of months. We bumped into a woman I used to work with there, she was a part time assistant for me when I managed a card shop and we seem to happen upon each other every couple of years, so that was a nice quick catch up with her. 🙂 There were lots of children this time, more than at the last show and none of them were particularly silent so Scarlett’s whispered ‘what does that mean?’ every so often to me was fine and not disruptive (Liza we could have sat behind you without causing too much ranting ;)). It was a good show again, very information packed, a lot of which you almost feel whizzing out of your brain again almost as soon as you’d heard it but like last time I think plenty of it went in and they are both keen to spot Mars and Saturn which are both visible in early night sky with the naked eye at the moment.
Home for dinner for the children after which I lost patience with both of them for talking all the way through something I was trying to watch on telly and then dithering about irritatingly when I’d asked them to get ready for bed. They are both being really crap at staying in bed and going to sleep at the moment which is tedious and ends up getting A and I cross with them and issuing all sorts of threats about locks on doors and tieing them to their beds and stuff :lol:. We watched Run Fat Boy Run which was pretty good and I think heading to bed now would be a good plan given how tired I am feeling and it already being the start of another busy week ahead.
Rofl 😆
we wouldn’t be ranting cos you know how to WHISPER 😉
Comment by Liza — 13 April 2008 @ 11:25 pm