Last Sunday we spent a quiet day indoors playing, reading and watching films. It wasn't nice enough to go out anywhere, although we did manage to pop over to my friend's house to see her and her little girl for an hour. We were dropping in her birthday present as she turned 4 during the week. When we arrived, the little girl was wearing a Sleeping Beauty costume and had told her mummy she was going to lie on the couch until Wee Z arrived so he could kiss her to wake her up because he was her Prince. Kids are so cute!
On Monday when I got home from work we played in the living room whilst Got to Dance was on in the background. I love Got to Dance and whilst I'd like to say it is because of all the amazingly talented dancers, (which I guess in parts it is) it isn't all I watch it for: I have a huge crush on Adam Garcia. If anyone watches Got to Dance and saw when Adam got up and did a rendition of Night Fever, well I nearly fell of my couch! I have it marked to keep on Sky+ for whenever I'm feeling down.
On Tuesday we went swimming again with Mama N and Wee J and one of the mums from nursery and her 2 little girls. It was lots of fun and the kids' swimming is really coming on. Wee Z braved the water with no armbands and was trying to swim himself. I wanted to put him into swimming lessons as I definitely think being able to swim is a life-skill you should have but both Husband and I are confident swimmers and we decided one of us would teach him and Miss C. Cheaper than swimming lessons anyways!
On Wednesday we had to stay in all day and wait for the (much anticipated) "big girl" bed for Miss C. I ordered it just after Christmas and I've heard about it everyday since I told Miss C she was getting her "big girl" bed. My advice after this experience is - tell your kids nothing! They don't need to have things to look forward to as they don't deal with waiting well...but that's just my experience. Unfortunately, whilst the bed arrived, they had brought a double mattress instead of a single mattress and having dismantled Miss C's toddler bed, she had to have a sleepover with Wee Z that night. She wasn't bothered though and was quite happy to sleep on her old mattress beside her brother. I think she got in his bed though at some point during the night as her hair bauble was in his bed in the morning.
On Thursday it was my day off and Husband, being the fantastic Husband that he is, let me have a lie-in. Woooo! I slept til 9am and got up feeling refreshed and raring to go. Then it started to snow. I hate snow. After my car experience in the snow 2 years ago, I refuse to drive anywhere in the snow, so I do feel terribly inconvenienced when it does snow. Husband had arranged a play date for Wee Z with one of the girls at nursery who he gets on with really well so he drove over to their house, with me a nervous passenger, whilst the snow continued to fall. Wee Z had great fun with his friend and Miss C played with the little girl's sister whilst us parents drank tea and ate cake...my kind of play date!
On Friday we decided to make white chocolate cookies. It's a recipe in Lorraine Pascale's new cook book and by golly they were tasty. They didn't take long to make either which is always a bonus! Miss C had ballet so I took her there and Husband took Wee Z and his friend from next door swimming. It was pizza night for dinner which I always love forward to as I love pizza. I'm a spicy chicken, red onion, peppers and mozzarella slices gal.
On Saturday, after work, Husband went to watch the football with some of his friends whilst I took the kids to the library. Our library has a small museum so we decided to take a wander round it before choosing some new books and then picking up a happy Daddy as his team won. I'm still working my way through my books from 3 weeks ago so I renewed them but I'm almost finished my Trisha Ashley one and it's been a really good read. After the kids were in bed, Husband and I watched a TV series we recorded awhile ago called Happy Endings. It's been really funny and is kind of like a more adult version of Friends.
Here is my favourite photo from this week:
This is our cat Casper. He'll be a year old soon! This picture came as a total fluke but it really did make me laugh!
So that was our week! I need to start writing down what I do everyday because I've really struggled to remember some of the things we did. Thank goodness for Facebook and Twitter to jog my memory.
