You’ll never shine if you don’t glow

Friday I worked all day. Julie was here in the morning, Dad was here for about an hour over lunchtime before Ady got home. Seems a long time ago now. Ady has been ill all week and is only really better this weekend. S woke in the middle of Thursday night with a temperature but seemed ok in the morning. She slumped mid morning and was asleep on the sofa when I got home at 5ish. She drank some lucozade but complained that everything she ate tasted funny. 🙁 She did perk up when I brought out the Shrek soundtrack I’d brought home from work though and we all spent some time dancing around the room to that. I was totally worn out and went to bed at 10pm, ending up asleep even before Davies. 😯

Saturday we deemed a pj day. Davies was clearly not right either so they watched lots of films, listening to lots of music and did lots of xboxing and barbiedotcomming. I did a load of baking (flapjacks, snickerdoodles and chocolate cake – all without beetroot naturally 😉 ) and loads and loads of washing taking advantage of the lovely sunny, windy day. My Mum called in for an hour or so and came out with me to get some clothes pegs (where do they go?) and bought the kids a kinder egg each and some minadex tonic that me and Frazer used to take when we’d been poorly. She was on good form actually, it was a nice visit. 🙂

We thought we’d got the children both asleep, exhausted by about 7pm and settled down to a nice dinner and eclipse watching but both children ended up awake for various parts of the evening / night with musical beds all over the place and I think Ady saw the moon doing it’s thing but I’d long since zonked out ready to be woken for the next shift. 🙄

Today has been by necessity another lazy day. Scarlett is pretty much over it and Davies had perked up by the end of the day depsite spending most of it sat on the sofa with his duvet wrapped round him. He was asleep nice and early and seems to be sleeping peacefully (although I don’t want to speak too soon…) so hopefully he’ll wake recovered tomorrow. He was well enough to play some xbox though so not totally broken. We had roast chicken at lunchtime although the children didn’t eat a great deal and then our friends Bruce and Paula arrived for an hour bringing with them an incubator and 19 fertilised hens eggs. 🙂 We talked last year about hatching some chicks for them (Bruce is a farmer) for the children to see it all happening and then handing back the hatched chicks at a few days old to return to the farm but the timing was never right as we were away so frequently last spring / summer. The incubation is 21 days but the eggs can be stored for up to 2 weeks before starting them in the incubator so we’re going to start them off next weekend to be sure of them not all hatching while we’re at NicCamp, tasking my Dad with daily turning of the eggs along with feeding the cat and the fish while we’re away. Can’t wait 🙂 Ady has another mate who can get us fertilised duck eggs which we would actually be interested in rearing to keep but we’ll see how we get on with these ones first. Ady was getting quite emotional looking at the eggs in their boxes and muttering about new lives at our hands etc. 🙄

After Bruce and Paula left we put on High School Musical which I’ve wanted to see since it was talked about last year but have only just got to the top of the waiting list for at work. Davies and I snuggled up and watched it all the way through with Tarly coming in to dance to the songs and Ady being initially snitty about it being ‘no Grease!’ to ‘well that was alright actually’ – told him it’s working title had been Grease 3 and when we went back to the singalong bit with all the songs he was singing along too. 😆

Which, in brief, brings us up to date. Scarlett has been coughing loads in the her sleep and was sounding a bit bark-y which was worrying me so I’ve been googling croup ready to pounce and blogging this to kill half an hour while I listen to her but she seems to have quietened down and is more peaceful now too, so again, fingers crossed for a decent nights sleep and a brighter pair of children in the morning.