Crap night last night with the Minx – we’ve lapsed with letting her creep into our bed in the early hours and are paying the price again. Unlikely to do any sort of hard work on it as we are on holiday in a week’s time so her ‘routine’ will go to pot anyway so will deal with it when we are back from holiday and Ady is back to work.
There was some sort of dramatic jack knifed lorry incident on the M25 this morning so our planned departure time of 7,30am was put back somewhat to about 9am – allowing me to do some ebay invoice sending – the pile of clothes dragged from the kids’ wardrobes and earmarked for Julie if they didn’t sell has so far netted nearly 30 quid so that’s good considering it is all so washed and worn I would have been ashamed to offer it free to a friend! (Fear not, I have been totally upfront and honest about the condition of stuff on my blurb)
Today was the first run of the in car dvd player for Davies and it went down really really well 🙂 His travel sickness was not mentioned and he sat glued to it without asking even one silly question 🙂 Tarly was less well behaved and Ady was a bit cross with her for being rowdy when he was trying to take a work call on the hands free in car phone – oops!
He dropped us off at Lakeside (shopping mall mecca for the finest chavs in all of Essex!) and headed off to do some real work 😉
We pottered round buying various bits and bobs – I got a replacement pair of sandals for the ones which had died (infact I chucked them and started wearing the new ones straight away), a new top, loads of stuff in Lush – where we spent ages and the children charmed all the very attentive staff, some hair bits in Claires (some for me and some for Tarly who now occassionally allows slides and things in her hair) some Spiderman stuff for Davies in H&M (a hat, a wallet and a sweat band, will get a pic as he looks dead cool!), and a handbag and purse and a Dora cutlery set for Tarly. We had lunch and then thought we had time for a quick last browse before Ady picked us up he rang me to say the M25 was shut and he didn’t know how long he’d be 🙁
Fortuntately there are worse places to be stranded 😉 so we went to ELC and bought a couple of colouring books and a story book and decamped to Costa for one of their icy chocolate drink things and some biscuits, a read aloud story and some colouring. We seemed to attract a fair few induglent smiles as the kids were being very cute. Ady then arrived sooner than expected in the end but it was at a tricky time to start the 90 min journey home so we went and got the kids some tea, Ady had coffee and then we bought then some pjs and changed them into them before heading for home.
Tarly fell asleep as soon as we got in the car, Davies stayed awake watching Nemo all the way home and we called in to Asda on the way back to get a couple of things from their Tickled Pink range (Ady lost his sister to breast cancer so we always support it as it gives money to the cause and I get to do shopping 🙂 ).
I have now had three glasses of wine (and no one will be surprised to learn we have big glasses here!), taco and tortillas dinner, Ady is snoring on the sofa and I’m about to wake him up and go to bed.
Tomorrow we’re going to the RAFA Shoreham Air show and Chris and Julie will be meeting us there at some point. Next week has panned out with something happening every day, I have 2 more CVs on their way for writing and this time next week I’ll be in a state of wild excitement about HOLIDAY 🙂
You drove 90 minutes to go to a shopping centre? I love the fact that you bought thwem some PJ’s so you could change them into them to go home in 🙂
Didn’t drive there as a destination – Ady was working nearby and we were not busy so went along for the ride and he dropped us off there (although I love shopping I don’t usually have to travel to indulge!)
They were both wearing stuff which they could not really have slept all night in and the plan was to transfer them straight into bed as soon as we got home without waking them. We considered naked but seatbelts would have been sore. (In my car we have spare pjs, spare clothes, coats, wellies and waterproofs, towels and swimming stuff at all times but we were in Ady’s work car which is not kitted up for such eventualities!)
yeah, yeah. We know you just spotted a retail opportunity.
yeah, I laughed at the pyjama buying too 🙂 Elijah doesn’t generally believe in pyjamas, and I realised today that Lulah has never had a new pair of jamas all of her own, apart from perhaps a couple of baby sleepsuits! My lot have slept all night in shoes and coats on the odd occasion 😉