Well if we ignore some bombshell news on Saturday (which I really don't feel ready to think about let alone talk or write about at the moment) we have had a lovely weekend.
In spite of the fact that it is October we are having gorgeous weather and so we took the opportunity to have a friend of ours along with her son, who is just one, and daughter who is just 15 days younger than my two over for a barbecue on Friday. Unfortunately her lovely husband was working away so was unable to indulge with us.
I love getting together with Christy and her little ones. She is just a sweetie and the children always play so lovely together. Friday was no different the children had a whale of a time playing in the play house, trampoline and paddling pool amongst other things. Yes that's right my children were playing in their paddling pool on 30 September yet they have not been able to play in it over the actual summer! Bizarre!
We did have a minor hiccup (okay maybe a fairly major one) in that my normally quite domesticated husband hadn't bothered to clean the barbecue last time we used it (as with most men the barbecue is his domain) and because our summer has been so rubbish and the last time we used it seems like forever ago it was in no fit state to cook food on so Muggins here ended up having to cook it all on the cooker. Seeing as the teeny bit of domestic goddess that I have in me had spent the day shopping for lovely barbecue food and then the rest of it marinading meat, making beef burgers, seasoning potatoes, making salad, etc, etc, etc I was not impressed by the fact that I then had to cook it all! That was so not the deal!
Anyway needless to say it all turned out lovely in the end and we had a really nice afternoon/evening with some really great friends and the kids were absolutely warn out. I did, however, forget to send Christy's husband his doggy bag for when he got back from work though. Sorry about that lovely!
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| H enjoying her ice cream |
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| A being the cool chilled out little boy that he always is |
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| A & D - As thick as thieves |
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| My little lady all wrapped up and dishevelled after a dip in the pool |
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| H bouncing around |
Can I just ask though, why is it that no matter how much you have worn them (and yourselves) out your kids NEVER seem to want to have a lie in, just once, just for half an hour? Ha ha, can you tell I am desperate for a lie in?
Lucky for us we got to see some more of our fabulous friends (we really are privileged in that department) on Saturday. They recently moved into their new house and so obviously we had to go and have a nose round. I had intended to make chocolate orange muffins to take as a housewarming pressie, but was prevented from doing so by having to use my oven to cook the barbecue food on Friday night so hence no room for the muffins on Friday and no time on Saturday morning! I am sure that they will get them at some point, but when I am not quite sure now.
Their new house is just lovely and has so much potential to be a fabulous family home. They waited so long to sell their house and had a short list of houses to view, but actually ended up buying one which had just come on the market so it is clearly fate and meant to be. I am so pleased for them that things have all worked out. It also has an added bonus for me of them being closer to us so when maternity leave kicks in for that precious cargo they have on board I will be able to pop round for cuddles in next to no time, although I am not sure that they will be so impressed by that prospect! Ha ha. Just kidding. While the boys talked shop (well loft conversions and conservatories) I was given the guided tour of their new home by my beautiful surrogate niece who is five months younger than my two and VERY excited to be living in a new house. I feel very blessed that she loves her Auntie Rach.
The main attraction of the new house for the children was it's fabulous garden which is very mature and just fabulous, it sort of has three separate sections and reminded me a bit of a secret garden. I thought it was just lovely, but if I had been a kid I would have been in my element as obviously the children were. It has a few little paths, a veg patch, apple trees, grass, decking, a teeny pond (which we did not draw the children's attention to) and the list just goes on. The highlight for my two was using the toy wheelbarrow to collect all of the apples that had fallen off the tree; not just the obvious ones, but they were even foraging for the ones that had fallen into bushes and plants and Auntie Maz was very impressed that they had saved her a job.
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| Look at all my hard work mommy! |
Thanks so much guys for sharing your weekend with us. We are truly blessed to have you.
"It is your friends who make your world." WILLIAM JAMES
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