Melrose mk 4
4th time at Melrose and finally enjoyed myself. Maybe it was due to not expecting to 
The kids had a whale of a time there and I hardly saw them. Sometimes that makes it hard though as you’re stuck with nothing to do except sit and chat, which is ok but sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed with the amont of people in Melrose and so it’s not so good. Anyway, I was fine this year.
Another change that I enjoyed was sharing a room, although was worrying slightly about that too in case I needed my own space, but in the end it was fine. The kids didn’t need me so much at bedtime as there were other kids so bedtimes were a breeze!
So the highlights were:
having big kids that entertained themselves
swimming
yummy meals
evening chats and jigsaws (not games though!)
geocache around Melrose
computer game workshop
lowlights I suppose included me not feeling well one night. I really thought I was going to come down with the sickness bug, but thankfully didn’t. Don’t really know what it was, just felt ill and dizzy. Also not making it to Edinburgh due to said dizzyness which re-appeared the next day.
The only other bad thing I can think of was Marcus being a bit annoying during the week, especially when it came to the computer game workshop. He wanted to do it and I knew he’d enjoy it, but he kicked up such a fuss about joining in 
If he’d not expressed any interest I’d have left him, like I did with the music (he definitely didn’t want to do that!) but he did want to do it but he gets so shy he panics and can’t join in. It just gets me down as this is how he is with lots of things. It’s why he won’t do anything like Beavers, swimming lessons or violin lessons or anything really. He seems to be getting worse and not better either. I think it is just his personality but it’s something that I know can be picked up as a negative thing by James’s family so in turn it feels negative to me too. Argh! I need to chill a bit!
But this is why I like getting together with friends, I realise that my worries aren’t that bad. Everyone is so accepting of the differences between the kids 
I just wish I didn’t let everything get to me so much between meet ups
Wow - another blog! I clicked through not expecting to see a change and here is one
Was lovely to see you last week. Glad it wasn’t as bad as you were worrying it was going to be.
Comment by Michelle — March 2, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
Was so good to see you
Glad you enjoyed it more than usual, I was wondering! I know Ernest and Buttercup really enjoyed seeing Marcus & Alex too 
Comment by Alison — March 3, 2008 @ 1:19 am
Was lovely to see you! You know what you need - a shorter gap between meetups
Comment by Em — March 3, 2008 @ 9:30 am
Glad you enjoyed it. Hugs about Marcus - you know I can sympathise with that one!
Comment by Joanna — March 3, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
glad you enjoyed it. perhaps marcus just likes to operate within his comfort level. he is a lovely boy [ i have a soft spot for marcus!!] and it’ll come
Comment by HelenJ — March 3, 2008 @ 9:10 pm