Sooo yeah they all came back home eventually! I had such a great weekend when they were away and I got SO much done – I’ve been working my proverbial butt off over the last few days as Hub had the rest of last week off so I took advantage to get into the workshop as much as possible!!
The kids are back at school in just a few days and I feel guilty that they haven’t had an awesome & amazing summer this year. Partly due to money – but also partly because the weather has been dreadful!! Finally we had a little inkling of some sunshine today, so after I’d done everything at work, we went to Brooklands park. I’d been promising them a ride on the boating lake for ages … and today we went for it!! Brooklands is right on our doorstep and there is no entrance fee – you just pay for whatever of the facilities you want to use and it isn’t expensive. Local stuff for local people 
It was only £5 per boat for 15 mins to chill out on the lake. I swear I had more fun than Megan & Nathan did too! … well, once I’d figured out the reverse steering and narrowly avoided crashing a couple of times … well, until the boat engine cut out and we were left just floating …. into the reeds at the side of the bank! Ooops! Luckily the boat guys spotted us waving for help and came to rescue us!
Well …. I’m a girl who learned to drive in a brand new car just two years ago and who has never tinkered with engines! How was I supposed to know what a choke was … and my girlie wimpy arms couldn’t pull the cord chain thingy properly anyway!!!
Ahh well … sometimes a girl just needs rescuing eh!
Then we went and played in the park … well, they played and I tried hard not to watch as Nathan climbed to the very top of things and did what small boys do so well (scare their mothers!)
I reckon he needs to start serious training for the next Olympics because he actually had a crowd around him as he was swinging on the monkey bars ooohing and ahhhing about how great he was at it! Nathan has always just had an uncanny knack for climbing and contorting his body into weird bizarre angles!
Megan is usually more sedate, but today even SHE wanted to just “hang around” LOL
It was a nice couple of hours just enjoying myself with the kids and not worrying about anything else in particular! I’m almost gutted that the summer holidays are nearly over … but I tell ya I can’t wait at the same time!!
I’m looking forward to it because I won’t have to worry about them between 9am-3pm 5 days a week again! I can get into the workshop and get things done without having to take them with me or play catch up in the evenings!
I’m NOT looking forward to it because 7am in the morning is such an ungodly hour that it should be banned … and because heck I actually do enjoy having my kids around! LOL
