Went the wind and whoosh went the week. Can’t believe it’s Thursday already.
Merry and girls arrived on Tuesday afternoon and stayed until after lunch today. It’s been a lovely couple of days with all the children seeming to get on really well. Lots of dressing up, playing with the castle and colliseum, Barbies and Polly Pockets and a fair bit of film viewing. There was some sort of Fimo masterclass for Tarly with Fran teaching her to make fairies (Davies just got on with it and made a Wallace and a Gromit :lol:) and I think pretty much all fall outs were between siblings.
Lucy, Richard and Rebecca joined us today which was nice and Lucy stuck around after Merry and co left and helped me work round the house restoring order and collecting lost property (three socks, two tops, two pairs of trousers, that angel teddy (which Scarlett is convinced is a ‘dead teddy’ :lol:, a wooden doll – will bring them to Sheffield unless any of it is desperate to be posted?).
Merry and I managed 4.30am on Wednesday morning and 3.30am today before retiring to bed. Not so bad this morning as I don’t think either of us emerged much before 10am although I know I was getting visited by children so I’m fairly sure she was too. Yesterday was slightly less sensible as I worked in the morning, so was standing behind the counter in the library a mere 4 hours after having gone to sleep feeling every one of my 33 years 😆 and more!
Merry bought a lovely selection of her new beads and bits to coo over and play with which was much enjoyed and I am now sporting my new liquorice allsorts bracelet having made and baked fimo around 1am this morning. 🙂
Davies had Badgers yesterday evening which he really enjoyed again, he is getting loads out of Badgers and Beavers and in some ways they almost seem to be complementing each other too so that’s all good. 🙂
Ady is loathing being away, it is loads of corporate entertainment which is so not his thing – I believe he got to bed even later than melast night which is hitting very hard for a never seen after 11pm sorta man like him. He’s desperate to get home tomorrow and I imagine will need the entire weekend to detox and recover!
This afternoon we watched Bagpuss with Tarly and I snuggled under a blanket and Davies playing with the Gears! Gears! Gears! Wacky Wigglers that I won on ebay after Helen naughtily reminded me of how I’ve been meaning to get a set by blogging about them, but I did get at a bargain price and he has been attached from the instant the door closed behind Merry and co (it arrived this morning and I told him not to open it until everyone had gone home. 🙂 ) They had soup for tea and Tarly was asleep well before 7pm, Davies hung it out a bit later but was at least tucked up in bed playing by 7 too.
I’ve bathed, fed, spent more time on ebay bidding for things for me and the children to wear to K&J’s wedding. We need to be up and about early tomorrow as we have to pick Lucy up at 8.30am to drop her and all the children back here and be at work for 9am, Ali and Freya are coming over in the afternoon for second shift of childcare and Ady will be home in the evening :). Looking forward to a quiet weekend and having had one or both children in my bed for the last couple of nights I am shortly about to go and savour the whole bed to myself before Ady returns to it again tomorrow ;).
ooh I’ve been buying loads on ebay lately!! If you need a suit for Davies I have a bloomin navy blue one with a nice shirt (was supposed to be black!!). Can’t imagine we’ll ever put Marcus in it, but who knows.
I am such a lightweight when I visit people, I don’t think I ever make it past midnight!!!
Comment by Kirsty — 18 January 2007 @ 10:52 pm
the gears are fab, and i had to blog how cheap they were post xmas, as the rest of the year they go for more than half price as a minimum. we were v pleased with our £3 oogly googly set. and gears are fun!
Comment by HelenHaricot — 18 January 2007 @ 11:05 pm
Had a lovely time; thank you for all the food (!) friendship and hospitality!
Impressive lost property selection. Nothing urgent though 😉
Comment by Merry — 19 January 2007 @ 10:24 am
Add to that a small knitted purse with more purses inside containing coppers and five pences 🙂
Comment by Nic — 19 January 2007 @ 12:44 pm