So I have been a lazy little blogger of late, but bear with me while I try to get back on blogger track:
I thought I might spend a few days sharing my mummy highs and mummy lows with you, lets start with the bad news:
Imagine all 6 of us sitting and enjoying a nice picnic at a very civilised National Trust property, all is calm and quiet. Then the screaming begins, little Elliot has fallen off a toy trailer being pulled by his sister. He stands there in shock as a huge stream of blood is let loose from his nose in front of many picnicking families.
Well we shove a bottle in to calm him down so I can stem the flow and check the damage, then after about 5 seconds he is happy again and off to explore with bottle in mouth and now slowly bleeding nose. Considering its a good idea to stay calm to slow the blood flow I thought just letting him have a little space seemed like a good idea. Bad idea he promptly falls over his dad's legs splits his lip open and starts his nose again.
Then we have a screaming baby, a split teat ( so no bottle), and both a mouth and nose streaming blood. Why did no one ever tell me how much fun it is being a mum!
Now the good bit of the day:
This may sound like a little thing, but it made me smile. Ali had brought a punnet of cherries as they are one of my favourites. Obviously being expensive we rarely buy them and certainly never really give them to the kids. So it was lovely to see all of the kids descending on them like a pack of ravenous birds. The only stumbling block being trying to explain to them how to get the stone out of the middle. It always gives me pleasure to see them enjoying food, good, good ,good.
