Two reasons

Today was a big day for two reasons, first of all my baby, my little Tom, turned 4.  Oh the excitement!  It was the first birthday that he has been old enough to properly anticipate and count down, and to lie in bed the night - before too excited to go sleep. 

It's that old thing; hasn't time flown, where have the years gone... and I really do struggle to come to terms with the fact that my baby...


5th of September 2007

... is now my boisterous, funny, affectionate, curious, sociable, talkative, stubborn four year old of many talents and many opinions.

5th of September 2011

Ahhh, yes, it's a different world of cakes now that Mum has discovered cake toppers on Ebay!!!

The second reason it was a big day is that it was the last day of holidays - diddlie diddlie diddlie dee as I dance an Irish jig in anticipation of life getting back to normal.  Of getting some time to myself, for myself.  Of having a clean house again - however fleeting that clean period may be!!

We have had a good summer holiday;  I've made an effort to stay in touch with Sam's friends and Tom's friends, as well as with my own friends (that's the only reason I am still sane!).  We've been to the park, the beach, museums, visited grandparents, visited friends and had friends visit us, had day trips and also had a good chunk of plain old playing out with the neighbourhood kids and a really nice amount of time when my boys played together beautifully (also a sizable chunk of trying to kill each other, but hey, holidays are over now, time to slip on those rose tinted spectacles).  Okay, so we may not have had the best weather, but it wasn't completely awful - at least not all the time, and bad weather gives you opportunity to read, watch films and play games.

All in all, I don't think we have an awful lot to complain about it!!