Give Me More Weekend

Goodness, don’t the weekends go fast.  Too fast for my liking. 

Mind you this one was a really good weekend. It started well as I  only worked half day Friday. Woohoo! There was a function on at school for the parents, so I left early to attend and it was worth it.

Saturday we went to Telford Park and spent a really enjoyable day there.  It’s an absolutely huge park, there really is something for all ages.  In one part of the park is a Wonderland with nursery rhyme characters dotted about with their houses.  For example Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the three little pigs.  There were also small gentle rides like the teacups and a maze. 

The main playground is huge.  There is an abundance of apparatus for children from areas for the little ones up to a ’spiders web’ climbing frame.

Plus for us old fogies, somewhere to get a nice hot cuppa!

Mothers Day was also lovely.  My mom decided to spoil me this year and cook for me instead of the other way round.  I always find that when someone prepares food for me, I end up eating more than normal, so very yummy indeed.

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Mother’s Day

It was Mother’s Day here on Sunday.

I didn’t get flowers. We don’t have them in the house because S will try to eat the flowers and drink the water.

S usually makes some sort of card at school but I searched his book bag in vain. I think they were too busy with Red Nose Day last week as I had earlier in the week been presented with a keyring with a very unflattering photo of S wearing his Red Nose! (For readers outside the UK , Red Nose Day is a bi-annual national fundraising day for the charity Comic Relief www.rednoseday.com)

I did, however, get a box of chocolates from M, together with a card which he forgot to also sign for his brother. S can only write his name with a lot of help. But it was special, because for the first time ever M had chosen and paid for the chocolates and card himself rather than rely on his father to get them.

The words on the card read:

‘A toast to you on Mother’s Day, the woman who taught me everything….call yourself a responsible parent?’

Says it all really!

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