Warmer

It must be summer now.  We’re eating outside and there’s white wine and lager involved.  The boy’s even taken his top off – he’s very ambitious when it comes to summer time.

Building

Today it was the girl’s turn to have her new bed put together (the boy‘s having been done just over a week ago).

She was thrilled to be able to help by holding the screws in the bed base down, to stop them rotating while the husb locked them in place by screwing up from below.  I think she feels a certain ownership of her bed now, having been involved in the construction process.

I took this using the little Canon point and shoot – judging by the general fuzziness of this picture, I’d say I’m more than a little out of practise.

Garden Day

We’ve been to Grandma and Grandpa’s today.  Always a good day – lunch was yummy (and that chocolate angel delight/digestive biscuit/butter pudding was inspired), the girl crafted to her heart’s content with Grandma, the boy got to do lego, play a bit of football and plant some runner beans with Grandpa, and the husb and I got to catch up with close and much loved family (and have a bit of a rest while they did all the aforementioned with the smalls).

I have a bumper crop of photo’s from today and cutting it down to just a few has been hard.  Down to one would have been impossible!

A Lovely Day

We’ve had a very lovely last day of our Easter break.

We had this year’s first BBQ because the weather suddenly turned lovely (hurrah, even if it is only for one day).

The boy did his homework.  Without complaining.  On his own.  And did an amazing job of it.  And it was writing, which apparently boys don’t do.

(by the way, that’s page two he’s on).

To top it off, the husb tried to teach the smalls all about football.  Good luck with that husb, but thank you for amusing me while I was trying to prep (still).

Looking Up?

Maybe, finally, the weather is starting to look up.

It was warm enough today for several things:

1.  The husb and I enjoyed a beer together on our bench in the sunny spot at the end of the garden.

2.  The washing got hung on the line.

3.  The children ran around the garden with NO COATS ON.

Sadly those last two points clashed pretty quickly so you can see the husb in the background of this shot, stalking down the garden with the washing basket to take the dry washing back in before it got pulled off the line by a small but exuberant child (no, I have no idea why his tongue is hanging out).

Cozy

Another picture from yesterday. We spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle P, Aunty D and utterly gorgeous W.

We had a lovely day, as we always do. The girl crafted with her Aunty (more on that tomorrow.  Yes, I’m stretching this one out), and the boy and husb had a lovely snuggle.

I only had my phone, not my big camera, but I’m really pleased with some of the shots I got.

Calmer, and More Clever

Thank goodness for my husb……

The boy came home with his Christmas play DVD today (I’m not going to tell you how much it cost, but I did wince when I wrote the cheque and I’m fairly sure I saw the husband wipe away a tear, I think just as I told him I was buying two – one of each child’s performance).

I wouldn’t have bought it, but last Christmas’s plays were the first school productions that I’d missed for either of my children and I’m not sure who was the most distressed by that, me or the smalls.

I was already fairly miffed that I’d had to wait until nearly the end of February for them and when the girl told me that she hadn’t been allowed to bring hers home as it wasn’t working, I pretty much hit the roof.

Fortunately, my quick to anger (and possibly too quick to think of any other explanation than the one that seems most obvious) personality is tempered by my husband’s cool, analytical mindset.  Instead of muttering darkly under his breath about how for that price he expected it to put itself into the DVD player and press play for him, (yes, that is exactly what I said), he turned his energies to working out how he could make it work.

It must have taken him, ooh, all of about 10 minutes.  It would have taken me much longer, if I’d been able to work it out at all, and I would probably have lost my temper several more times.

Thanks to him, I was able to send the girl into school today with instructions to pass on the message that we were able to play the boy’s DVD at home, so please could we have hers, and lo she has returned with it.

Thank goodness for my husb……  fixer of the broken, researcher of the seemingly unfixable.

Next Week

Is going to feel positively tame by comparison with this week.

Last term, the small’s school put together a display of artwork based on the book “Fletcher & the Falling Leaves”. Each class took a page and recreated it using various materials including items from outside (sticks, leaves, moss, etc). The artwork is currently on display at Bromley library so we took the husb along to see it.

Here are the ones done by the boys and the girls classes, handily placed next to each other.

We then did lots of running around based around Drs appts (nothing major), shopping, and most excitingly taking delivery of my finished bunting and then packing it up and posting it to BBC Children’s, Manchester.

My lovely friend T had done a fantastic job of sewing it up for me. Many many thanks lovely T.

I held it up while the girl took photos. It’s really rather large!

Still Busy

We had another jam packed day today.

We went to my favourite museum, Horniman Museum, this morning. We had been planning to go to a free craft workshop, but the queues were appalling when we got there so we just pottered around the free galleries instead.

We saw some old favourites, like the overstuffed walrus

and some new bits like the drums in the gardens.

This afternoon we watched the original Star Wars (now called episode 4, shouldn’t be allowed) which the smalls seemed to enjoy, in between asking endless questions. Here is a shot of me and my boy snuggled with a blanket just before it started.

Finally, this evening, we went to pizza express for tea.

A daddy and boy totem,

Which the girl and I couldn’t quite pull off as I’m not tall enough.

This week has certainly been our busiest half term.

Anyone would think that I was over compensating for working full time and having to put them into pre and post school childcare.

Second Tea

He has food at after school club, but apparently not enough.  He had yoghurt, raisins and breadsticks as soon as he got home and still his eyes lit up when I offered him some of mine and the husband’s tea.

It reminded me of Hobbits and their second breakfasts.