Well I am delighted (and a little relieved) to let you know that today was a FAR better day. We definitely finished the week on a high. I also wanted to thank those who sent messages this morning – I hadn’t intended yesterday’s post to be seen as a cry for help, but it’s lovely that so many of you care!!
I have a feeling the glorious weather today made it almost impossible to have a second rubbish day. Even being trapped indoors for most of it tied to my computer couldn’t dampen my spirits. As I write this diary entry there’s an almighty thunder and lightening storm going on overhead which I suppose is an appropriate end to such a scorching day!
Read on for today’s top 5:
1. Steph took the kids to see her mam today on the way to pick up some essential items from the shop. To their surprise, she had arranged to set up a stone painting station so E could design some pieces of art for her new fairy garden. What a lovely thought! Both kids took to it and wanted to be involved. I genuinely have no idea what this garden is going to look like at the end but she’s certainly having fun designing it. She just needs to pick up some more points on her challenges as I’m pretty sure she’s on negative today. I have no idea why as she’s been gorgeous when I’ve seen her but she’s developed an impressive ability to push her Mammy’s buttons. Fingers crossed for some calm tomorrow. 🎨
2. I have to mention M today. He’s just so busy. I have no idea how a 2 year old finds quite so much to do. But I also have no idea how it has only taken him 2 years to develop a practical joker personality. Perhaps it is genetic! He literally looks for trouble and when he knows he’s doing something he shouldn’t he’s always looking over his shoulder to make sure he has an audience. Today’s highlight was a Friday special as I found him hitting the booze hard by emptying all of our bottles out of the alcohol stash. He had a particular liking for Jack Daniels. That might explain why he went to sleep so quickly tonight. 🤔
3. What else were we going to do after work other than fire up the barbecue? We do have a freezer full of butcher meat remember! I was forced to juggle cooking the burgers and sausages with a game of hide and seek as I had promised my daughter I would do that when I’d finished work. Our trees haven’t quite grown big enough yet nor I have shrunk horizontally enough yet to allow me to hide behind them. I gave it a pretty good go however. I didn’t bother with my special hiding place of the garage (she never finds me in there) as I needed to get back to my burning beef and pork. Actually it wasn’t as charcoaled as usual so that was yet another win for the day. 🌳
4. In probably my worst decision of the day, I opted to sneak out for a little 5k run after tea. The only reason was that I was just under 5k short of hitting the 100k mark for the month of July. My competitive spirit won out despite everything else telling me to stay at home. I had food lying heavily on me, it was humid and sticky and I hadn’t really recovered after last night’s disastrous run. But off I set and just about made it round. I am delighted that I’m ahead of target for the Great North Run virtual challenge and just made that 100k. Sadly the clock resets at 0 tomorrow! 🏃♂️
5. The kids were completely hyper this evening, perhaps just confuddled by the hot day and the excitement of the forthcoming weekend. It started when I returned from my run and E insisted on presenting me with her “Daddy Dance”. It was really quite beautiful and brought a tear to my eye. It was themed on my running and involved some slow motion running, lots of thumbs up, blown kisses and heart symbols. What a cutie! Things sadly deteriorated from there as they both just went crazy around the living room dragging all the books out and chasing after each other. I was quite happy as I thought it might tire them out and as I listen upstairs I think I was right. This parenting malarkey is simples…. 🥳
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