It's days like these.....

......that I LOVE! Good friends staying, lazy, playful morning, tummies full of organic eggies from the school farm, then a loooooong walk around country lanes beside the brimming, racing Dee, along the muddy, still canal, and over the aquaduct that still gives me the heebiejeebies!
It's days like this that I will hold as treasure in my head and try not to miss too much once we are in Nepal...
Oh - and check out Thom in the Beco, which'd just arrived that morning. It's great for me (I'm just too unco-ordinated and unsupple for more traditional back-caryying) and Thom loves it. When I ordered it I kind of had Thom in mind as the same sort of size as one of the babies in the promotional photos - it came as a bit of a shock to find how big he looks in it!

Fancy dress

We love fancy dress parties - here they are all dressed up for Esme's.







It was a beautiful party, both aesthetically and because some of the children and all of the mums have known each other almost five years now. And we have been through a lot of those scary parent times together, and had a LOT of fun with each other.





And here are the boys, pottering about in the play room and watching daddy in fascination as he warmed down and stretched after his run. Loving Noah's funny faces.

On the Rocks

A lovely afternoon in Llangollen - except for poor Evie falling in just after I took the top photo!! She slipped and ended up in the water up to mid thigh. I ran over and hauled her out, but she was quite shaken up and scared for a while afterwards, poor chicken. No harm done and we've both learnt a lesson: Eve that water is sometimes powerful and frightening, me that she's not always the 'careful one'.

Garden

I feel like we've only just been let out - and it really has been a loooooooong winter!

I emptied a planter trough into the veg patch last Autumn as the crocuses I'd planted in it had been rubbish that Spring - so here they are defying me by snuggling up to the purple sprouting broccoli.

And please tell me I am not the only one to get such a ridiculous satisfaction from a line full of laundry...?

Catch up photos

Yummmmmmm - sixth formers at college held a bake sale to raise money for a twin school in Kenya so I bought a plateful of cakes to bring home to the rascals.
And the lovely cookie that Jan, our childminder, helped Thom make for Mothers' Day.
And the little nest of eggs I sent to my season swapee.

Under the Sofa

Treasures from my under-sofa scavenging......Two favourite books, a dolly, a spring onion, a hair band and one of those dodgey dvds that appear from goodness knows where every so often. I honestly have NO idea where it came from...?

Thom came over rather sad and tired out from emptying the sideboard, cuddled up and nursed to sleep, while I sat and read a bit more of the Napthali book. I'm not sure that counts as nursing mindfully unfortunately, but I can live with it.

So - what's under your sofa??

Spring Season Swap

Look, look, look! What gorgeous, lovely, scrummy things from MummySib - a daffodil child, a daisy chain, a bluebell garland an a Spring garland. What a clever mummy - we feel thoroughly spoilt - Thank you so much, xx