A full on weekend

On Friday morning, Simon went away for a mountain bike race with some friends. The kids and I had no plans for our weekend at that stage but boy did it fill up fast.

Friday was spent getting groceries in the morning, home to pack the bags with togs, towels and food for swimming with the homeschoolers and a play at the park afterwards and home in time to get some dinner on.

Saturday we went to the kids grandparents by 9am as they were going away on holiday and we needed to sort out some things for them, dropped their dog off to the kennels and decided to go to the markets. The afternoon was spent around home.

Sunday morning saw us on a train by 10am to travel just down the line to a local school fair and back home again by 12.30pm, had the friends that we went with over to play for a while, then headed off to some other friends for a catch up, then off to playcentre for a parent meeting and the kids all had a play for a few hours followed by fish and chips for dinner and home for bed.

Phew! Exhausting, but fun. The kids spent every night in my bed - plenty of room with just the 3 of us, beats the usual 4 of us squished in there at times. I had Danielle put herself to bed there on the Friday night and when I discovered her fast asleep - the window as still wide open, bright day still, curtains open and the birds chirping, then Saturday night Nathan put himself to bed there and then Sunday night they both put themselves to bed there. Mama just pretended she had no idea what was going on ;).

Today, we just spent it at home. We put up the Christmas tree, the kids made up various games, looked through their little boxes of baby cards and memorabilia, watched a video or two, bounced on the trampoline and hung out in the garden collecting veges for dinner. I got a bit of much needed housework done. At some stage Nathan told me that 2 + 2 + 2 was 6 and had me sit down with him for a while to write out some numbers.