The Buckingham Blog

It's been school holidays for 2 weeks now, but they've kind of vanished without doing much.  We had Coral and Chad to stay for a few days in the middle, over Easter (I'll do a separate blog about that) and they went home last Monday. James had the rest of the week off. 

On Tuesday, I got my hair cut in the morning.  I very nearly got a whole new style put in but chickened out before Jenni's wedding in May!   Then we went into town do do some shopping and let Kory spend some of his birthday money and vouchers.  I went for a sunbed at night which is the first since before my heart monitor was put in over a year ago.  Now it's out I can go!

Kory & Krystal thought it was really funny to put on my pyjama trousers and t-shirt and run about like a 2 headed monster! 

Things went downhill on Wednesday when we got up though.  I had incredible pains in my tummy and was so weak I could barely move.  As the day progressed James was wilting with pains too.  Was a horrible day looking after the kids who were great at amusing themselves.  They asked if they could have a sleepover together that night in the spare room, so they did! 

James felt a bit better on Thursday so managed a walk with the kids to the woodland area near our house, Kory took his binoculars though not sure what he hoped to see!

On Friday we headed out to the ceramic experience, then B&Q then down by the river for a while.  Saturday was a lovely day here in Aberdeen, so we decided to get on with some jobs that needed done in the garden.  James oiled the table that looked a bit rough after the winter outside.  I painted Krystal's clock (note to Coral, it worked, it looks fab!)  James fitted a new retractable washing line, we tooks stabilisers off Kory's bike, we cleaned the patio and I started repotting my seedlings, but it was too windy, the poor things were all over the place so I gave up! 

Today we got up and it was a lovely day.  On a spur of the moment we decided to head to a castle to make use of our Trust memberships and have a wee picnic.  loads of open space to let the kids loose too!  They had great fun, eating outside, running, playing in the park, looking at plants and trees etc. Some photos.....

We came home about 4pm for a while, then again on the spur of the moment decided we'd had a bit of a washout week with being ill, and were going out for a last holiday meal.  This time though instead of somewhere for kids (you know, crayons, soft play, kids menus etc) we'd attempt taking them to an adult restaurant.  We went to our favourite indian that we've not gone to for a long time.

I can say honestly that the kids did us proud.  They didn't carry on, jump about or anything.  They ate poppadoms, their rice and chicken curry and nan bread.  In fact they were so good, we went to Baskin' Robbins afterwards and got blue ice creams! 

Back to nursery, work and the boring mundane routine tomorrow.  How long till Summer holidays?  Most people hate the holidays, I love them, and having the kids around and not being shouty Mummy getting out in the mornings. 

Julie.xx