What a gorgeous weekend. It’s hard to believe it’s still only February but perhaps the weather has decided to jump on board with Boris’s roadmap and the light is here and not just at the end of the tunnel. Only one week of home schooling left and there have been a lot of celebrations already! We have loved having so much time with E but she is definitely ready to go back to spend time with her friends and learn in a slightly more structured environment.
I’m delighted to have completed my 10,000 steps each day in February challenge for Brain Tumour Research. Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored me – it’s not too late to donate a few pounds as I’m still a little short of my target.
Here we go with this week’s top 5:
1. We have been here before but E has had another wobbly tooth all week and this time it’s right at the front! She can twist it right around which is pretty gross.
E: Mammy there’s blood everywhere and I can’t eat.
M: Ok, well stop wobbling your tooth then.
E: But I can’t eat Mammy and it can go this way and that way and up and down.
M: It’ll come out when it ready though.
E: But Mammy I’m going to starve because I’ll never be able to eat anything ever again <dramatic sigh>
M: E, I love you but please stop being ridiculous.
E: But Mammy I need my pudding.
STOP PRESS – the tooth has come out tonight and is safely stored under her pillow ready for a nighttime visitor. I am not prepared in any way. Do you think she will accept contactless payments? 
2. M continues to cause mayhem wherever he goes, which is really just home or nursery. Apparently he spent one of his nursery days this week shadowing one of the staff members and trying to tickle her. He’s such a flirt (no idea where he gets that from!) At home his jigsaw obsession continues and he has no qualms doing the same one a dozen times over in a row. I think he just finds them calming and is so proud every single time he completed them. His latest party trick this week has been to trash his bedroom every evening by emptying every book and toy onto his floor and has even taken to ripping down his wall stickers. Every morning we are going in to find a different woodland creature crumpled on the floor or hidden in his bed. No idea what he’s going to smash up next! 
3. Every so often we enjoy participating in an online quiz rather than actually hosting one. Saturday night was one such occasion and so logged on with pen and paper and drink in hand. All was going incredibly well with 29/30 at the half way mark. Little did I know things were about to take a dramatic turn. The next round was far from traditional and involved teams having to find household items and hold them up with the fastest three teams getting points each time. I was dispatched to the door of the living room so I could dash into other rooms as required. It did not go well. Apparently I was too slow. Communication was almost non existent. It didn’t help that we had somehow managed to mute ourselves so when Steph was shouting that we had an item, the quizmaster couldn’t hear her. I’ve never known such a frosty atmosphere to descend in my own house and inevitably we ended up plumb last. Perhaps we’ll go back to hosting next time! 
4. With the gorgeous weather we ended up on a nice family walk on Saturday and a long run home and then decided to go out again on Sunday. It certainly helped with our step counting (my team is still ahead of Steph’s… for now!) Steph had the idea of walking up the hill to the farm shop to pick up some meat for the week. We loaded up a picnic lunch and set out as a happy family of 4. The public footpath signs quickly disappeared and before long we ended up in a field full of cows which had a sign warning us to beware of the bull. My better half was definitely not happy at this development but we made it through in one piece and carried on up the hill. As we reached the summit I commented that I was surprised the farm shop was open on a Sunday and, of course, it was only at that moment we discovered that the walk was very much only a walk and any meat purchasing would have to wait. Cue a long trudge home (the long way so as to avoid the cows!) 
5. The top 5 are meant to be my highlights of the week but on this isolated occasion I’ve agreed to include Steph’s highlight. It came as we headed back down from the closed farm shop and M was finding the going tough. To be frank he was out on his feet so I hoisted him onto my shoulders to give him a rest. Perhaps it was my rhythmic walking, or perhaps my dull conversation, but before long he was snoring away up there on my shoulders. All I could think was we had an awful long way to walk back and now I’d have to carry him the whole way. What I hadn’t realised (and why this is Steph’s highlight of the week) was that sleeping beauty was drooling a lot and coating the whole of the top of my head in his slaver. Oh the joys of parenting! 
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