Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

it’s been way too long. I’ve spent the past week or so really trying our hardest to sort the house out. Still loads of boxes around and I’m just not on top of anything. Which reminds me, I must clean the kitchen before bed just so I wake up to a nice sight! It’s been getting me a bit down as I’ve felt I’ve not been giving the kids enough attention at all. So I then try to do just that and the house suffers cos it gets so late and I just can’t be bothered.

Kids had a birthday party in the morning of Saturday and we had a barbecue on later on for the England game. I’m sooooo not a bbq person, I hate them! So trying to clean my house in order for people to come round for something I hate wasn’t fun. Put on a brave face though And it wasn’t that bad really. Always seems such a waste of food though, there was so much we cooked that didn’t get eaten and then so much that didn’t even make it to the barbie.

But that didn’t matter as we took it to the safari park the day after as they have a barbecue area there. It was quite nice there, but really pricey I thought. We went with my brother and my niece and nephew so the kids had a fab time. In the evening we all played football at my brothers house but the kids were getting so tired and the girls just couldn’t cope with it all and tears were plentiful!

Can’t seem to remember what we did the beginning of this week though except of course the compulsory house work - grrr! Cleared the playroom finally on Wednesday and it looks like one now!!

Highlight of the week has been the visit of Nic and Ady. Marcus and Alex have been counting down the days! It was a pity they couldn’t stay as long as they’d hoped but we made the most of it by just chilling out in the garden and the weather obliged! The trampoline was a huge hit especially with Ady I’m sure photo’s will follow from them, they took some fab ones especially of the house. The kids were great together and got on really well, the adults did too and James even managed to coax a game of Jenga out of them at the end of the night.

It was sad to see them go this morning, seemed a bit surreal actually in that they were really here. Not sure I believe it! This afternoon we’ve done some grocery shopping and then went for a walk in the countryside. This evening I’ve done some gardening which was well overdue and just in time really as it’s chucking it down here now.