Yet another day in Lockdown but it’s a Friday and a Restday so at least that’s something. It’s felt like an incredibly long week this week and we are all now running on empty. Humid nights don’t help at the best of times but when the littlest cherub wakes up at 3am screaming (bless him) you are never going to feel fully refreshed for work. I sometimes find myself reminiscing about life before kids but quickly snap out of it when I get prodded hard, hear a loud noise or smell a revolting smell. It’s just a question of which will happen first.
A very brief update on my leg – I really hoped it would be feeling better today but sadly it’s exactly the same. I’ve been icing, resting and elevating as advised but only time will tell what shape I’ll be in tomorrow and Monday. In the meantime we’ll certainly take the unexpected press interest and hopefully raise a few more quid for Brain Tumour Research.
There was unexpectedly a lot of going’s on today so what made the top 5?
1. Scrabopoly. E decided to invent a new board game today and to my amazement she did an absolutely cracking job. She was trying to learn her red words/ speed words and wanted to play a game with them so she designed a board similar to monopoly and put each letter of the alphabet into a square in a random order. She then wrote all her red words onto separate cards and essentially you have to roll a die and move round the board collecting letters to spell out the red words you pick at random at the start. The extra part is you also have to write them down as you collect them so we have some handwriting practice going on too. I was so impressed and we had a full game this evening (which E won hands down!) She’s so much more imaginative and creative than her Daddy and didn’t even realise she was doing schoolwork! 🗃
2. I was dispatched to the supermarket for an essential shop today and was surprised to find it heaving with a queue around the block. My wife had reassured me that she’d only written a short list so I wouldn’t be long. Nearly £140 later and a full trolley (a proper one, not those little ones that “daily shoppers” go for) later and I managed to escape. Now we have tried incredibly hard to follow all Government advice to the letter and so I was conscious I should be wearing a face mask today. Unsurprisingly I didn’t have any in stock but fortunately a branded snood arrived in the post today from one of my virtual runs so I got to wear that round the shops feeling like a highwayman. I’m sure that I looked like a complete pillock but if it helps stop the spread (or even a remote chance) then I don’t mind doing my bit. I took reassurance from the fact that at least I wasn’t wearing a full blown balaclava like one guy I passed! ⛷
3. The dog was returned to the in laws this afternoon and E accompanied him over. Apparently there was a rather unexpected conversation in the car:
“Buddy needs to find a girl dog and then he can have puppies!”
“I don’t think that is going to happen.”
“But why? He needs to. He needs a girl dog to have puppies.”
“Well he is quite an old dog so I think it’s unlikely.”
“But what about Lola? (a friend’s dog) We could just invite her over and then they could have puppies together and we can look after them!”
No, no, for a hundred different reasons, no!! 🐶
4. M has been relatively well behaved today given how heavily he normally features in the top 5! His speaking is really coming along and he is desperate to say E. They have such a special bond and we’ve realised that rather than being overly demanding for food or greedy, he always wants two of everything just so that he can take one through to E. I certainly don’t remember doing that for my sisters so fingers crossed it continues. It’s less than a fortnight until his birthday although we’re pretty sure he turned 2 a while ago given his hormonal attitude to the word “no”! 👼
5. Tonight was very special as it was the first time I got to do this to Steph during lockdown. I’ll admit I’ve been waiting for the last 66 days for this special day and with each day that has passed my excitement and eager anticipation has grown and grown. I think every long term relationship needs the man to do this to the woman every now and again just to add a bit of spice and with a sprinkling of danger. Tonight I finally got to dye my wife’s hair! All the practical jokes and little comments had to be put to one side as it turned out to be an incredibly serious session, where the instructions on the box were read and then re-read and only then was I allowed to read them. What she doesn’t know is I secretly switched her brown dye for purple so she might get a shock when she wakes up tomorrow! 💆🏼♀️
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