Happy Valentines Day

So have you had or having a nice valentines day?
Ours has been different to say the least.

I mean I know not to expect anything too romantic and crazy as we have 2 small children so anything we do do will involve them in some way or another. But then we remembered that Nanna i.e. the Mother In Law was coming for a visit today.

So my first job was to get myself and the kids dressed and out to the shops to buy milk as we'd ran out last night, and Nanna always has at least one cup of coffee whilst she's here. And then there's all the tidying to be done before she gets here so she doesn't fall over all the kids stuff.

Oh and hubby and I gave each other a Valentines card. ( He bought me 2 Keri Arthur-Riley Jenson Guardian novels a few days ago and said I could have them early)

He didn't know what he wanted so he's got some cash to buy himself a book or add on for his webpage or whatever he likes really.
Anyway that done and then daughter and hubby had to go meet Nanna in town (she is able to come straight here on the bus by herself as she's done it before, but she wanted meeting), which was fine as son was asleep so I got a few more bits done without daughter running around my legs and taking out what I've already put away.

So halfway through washing the pots they roll in and wake son up, well he was asleep in pushchair behind the front door so can hardly blame them for that. Daughter got a nurses outfit which once on she spilt banana milkshake down so more washing for me woohoo!!, she also got s peppa pig towel and some ducks for the bath, but the ducks she can share with our son.

Have noticed a pattern whenever Nanna comes one week son gets loads and daughter gets hardly anything and then the opposite happens the next time she comes.

Was wondering if the thought had occurred to her that it was Valentines day or not and she did mention with a disgusted look on her face how much mush was in the shops because of Valentines day. ( Brain into overdrive wondering if she knew it was today or not and if so did she put me in the camp that it means nothing and I wouldn't care about her being here, or was she playing the territorial mother towards her precious son and wanted to sabotage even our most lame attempts at a nice Valentines day)
Who knows....All I know that is after this little rant I will give as little thought to the potential craziness of the M.I.L.

So if you have an equally strange Valentines or even a toe curling horrid one I would love to hear it....

Now to order take out and have a bit of a relax!

Happy Halloween

Using the Gothic font, just to get into the mood of Halloween just that little bit more, well I hope everyone has a good night whatever you decide to do.

Ours is a bit of a wash out weather wise as well as not.

The day really started at 3am...when our daughter decided that she didn't want to sleep any more, well at least it gave us plenty of time to get ready to going out to the shops...

So me and the kids took a trek to the supermarket this morning to get the sweeties for the kids and to get the fireworks in time for Guy Fawkes night. It takes an hour to get there walking and I was super tired by then too.

We got so wet. Daughter wanted to go in her sleeping beauty princess dress and then wanted to splash in puddles on the way home...So that was one costume change our daughter had. Good thing Grandma and Auntie Lil came to visit yesterday and brought her another 2 dressing up outfits.

Once home though we all went for a nap leaving hubby in peace to watch the news.

Once we got up again realised we had run out of milk so off me and the teeny weenie's went to the local shops for some milk. Saw a couple of houses with decorations up and passed a few kids in costume, they looked pretty good. I do prefer it when they make an effort whether store bought or home made, it makes me feel better about giving them the sweets when they've tried.

Feel a bit let down now its after 8pm and we missed one group of kids while we were getting the milk and we've just had a couple of kids from our daughters playgroup come T.O.Ting, they were by far the best dressed kids, 2 girls and one boy, the 2 girls were little witches aged almost 3 and almost 2 and the boy is about 4 or 5 and he looked like a zombie or a mummy, they've only just been at the door and I can't remember he he I think I need more sleep...

Right then better get some work done, gotta try to figure out how to save pictures to pdf documents and to make sure I put them in the right size. Sounds simple but ooh its not...