You’ve got to laugh a little…

More groundbreaking stuff happening this week 🙂

Last night I had my first EVER night away from my children. Ever. Not the longest I’ve been away from them, and we once left the house at 6am and didn’t come home again until midnight, so technically I didn’t see them for a whole day, but the first time I’ve slept anywhere where my children were not. Not remotely ready to leave them with anyone other than Ady yet, or go too far away, of for more than a night, but it was a lovely little taste of freedom. 🙂

Oh and I cuddled a dog! 😯

Yesterday day I went to Tesco in the morning as I had some upholstery underwear to return (I used the M&S one I’d bought instead) and I’d intended for that to fund alcohol purchasing for last night. Unfortunately I’d lost the receipt so I could only exchange for clothing, which meant Ady and Davies got a pair of Tesco value jeans each, Tarly got a two pack of leggings to wear under skirts as she refuses to wear tights and I got some new pants. 🙂 Had an embarrassing moment at the till when I realised I’d picked up more expensive potatoes than I’d meant to and had to take them back as I didn’t have enough money for them (and witnessed the scathing looks from the checkout woman and the customers in the queue behind me as I kept the 8 tins of Guinness but swapped for cheaper potatoes 😳

I worked in the afternoon and it was easily the busiest Saturday afternoon I’ve worked – it was good 🙂

Then Layla and Si arrived, I kissed the children goodbye and Si ran Layla, Jasper and I over to Ros’, collecting Ali on the way. Alison was already at Ros’ and we had a wonderful evening of singing, dancing, eating, drinking, laughing and baby cuddling (when Layla could bear to allow it 😉 ). We had a phonecall with Joyce, who was so missed that we nominated a cushion to represent her in spirit (which got up to all sorts of wee tricks :lol:), we watched Beaches and Beverley Hills 90210 – oh Dylan still has ‘it’ 😆

Ady and Si had a more sedate version with added children back at our house (but with even more curry than we had I believe 😉 – and the Guinness!).

This morning Ady and Si arrived with children at Ros’ slightly earlier than expected so we all sat round together watching music TV, eating croissants, drinking copious volumes of tea and coffee and showing ‘Joyce’ a really good time 😆 Photographic evidence of some of the evening can be seen here 🙂 – thanks for a lovely time ‘sistas’ 🙂 xxx

The afternoon has been a fairly lazy one. Scarlett watched Rainbow for ages having been inspired by us singing the theme tune on the way home after spotting a real one. Davies watched Shrek 2 and then decided he wanted to make a Shrek house and characters – he painted a flat piece of wood we’ve had kicking around from one of our Winter WalksTM and I’ve promised to make some fimo models with him tomorrow for it. Ady went and chopped logs and I cooked a roast dinner (Nigella’s ham in coke) which we all ate together. Bed for the kids, baths for us and Ady is in bed while I’m watching Lost before heading off to bed myself.