Well dear reader you won’t be surprised to hear that after all of the excitement of yesterday, today was a far more relaxed and generally uneventful day. This overcast weather isn’t helping either and looks set to continue for a while yet.
Sundays should really be a celebration of the end of a successful week and making the most of the last day before a new one begins. Instead today seemed to just be a case of waiting for the inevitable grind of a Monday to start. I’m not going to make the same mistake next weekend!
Right let’s canter into the day’s top 5:
1. After a late night eating Chinese food I was hoping for another of those long lies that sometimes are gifted to us by the kids. I was sadly disappointed as they bowled in at 6am. I took them downstairs to try and let Steph have some more sleep and we ended up watching Nanny McPhee. Exhaustion was the theme of the day as during the afternoon, M had a three and a half hour nap, E put herself to bed for a kip and Steph was snoring on the couch for quite some time! I possibly closed my eyes for a short time but I’m not sure that achieved much. An early night tonight for all I think so we are full recharged ready for a full on week ahead. 🥱
2. As a result of impeccable planning and timing by my wife, any birthday celebrations I have always continue into a second day as today is E’s half birthday. Given her elephant type memory, she never forgets and insisted that she had some cake and got to choose what we did today (not a lot!) Keen to get in on the action, Steph announced this afternoon that it is also her three quarter birthday today. That gave her the right to pick what we all had for tea but not much more. Poor M was completed left out. I worked out that it is his 804th day on this planet and in a few more days he will have spent exactly 20% of that in lockdown. I suppose a good time to get him ready for his first full day at nursery tomorrow! 🎂
3. The one and only thing I managed to achieve today was to get out for a run. Number 26 of the GNR Solo challenge is bagged and it somehow ended up being a 10k PB. I got to try out my Camelback for the first time, which came in handy trying to keep hydrated. The paths were really busy this morning and at one point I was passing a lady in a luminous yellow vest, as a guy was coming the other way in a luminous yellow vest and 6 bikers flew past, all of whom were wearing luminous yellow vests too. I felt very relieved with my outfit choice! I’m not so sure about my post run selfie which makes me look like I added a year to my age for every km run! 👴🏼
4. Tonight’s story for E was the Goose that laid the golden egg. A classic of course, with a very important moral subtext about greed. I struggle to lose the teacher hat even on a weekend in the holidays so ended up discussing the moral aspect with her at the end of the story. It turns out that if she found a golden egg she wouldn’t sell it as she’d hope there was a baby goose inside it. Apparently she’d have to build a nest and then sit on it to keep it warm. Although after further thought she decided she would take it to a farm so another goose could sit on it for her. She also announced that once it had hatched she would sell the golden shell and use the money to buy a television for her bedroom. She wishes! 🥚
5. The kids were flat out as soon as their heads hit the pillow so Steph and I settled down for a nice quiet (and uninterrupted) evening. I made the fatal mistake of telling her that she could put whatever she wanted on the TV. I should have known what was coming next but it was too late anyway. And so I’ve managed to make good progress in writing my diary entry whilst Bridget Jones’s Diary plays in the background. Now I don’t mind a chick flick now and again but the soundtrack playing this evening is sensational! 🎼
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