T-Bird Anni Rides Again

The Good Bits

Having Jo come the day before camp and therefore having much gossip time even before Melrose began 

Helen’s rather yummy veggie and fruity meal which was even better once it ahd "matured" in the fridge overnight - that’s my year’s vegetable portions sorted then

Playing with Fimo

Swimming - and watching her confidently ducking under to get toy seals off the bottom of the pool as well as swim lengths here and there too.

Dynamic Earth

TomTom not getting me lost (except that one time when I picked the wrong destination of course….)

Watching her fall back in with friends she hasn’t seen for ages as if it had only been a few days.

Watching littel packs of little girls marauding round the hostel

Baby cuddles

Gossip

Finally getting to Melrose Abbey (it’s the 4th time we’ve been to Melrose and never got to the Abbey!)

Hot chocolate at Tebay

A whole week without being woken up by the SnoreMonster (aparently he slept really well without me beating him up all night too!)

ACtually finding time most days to do half an hour or so OU work 

The Giggles

SB coming into the dining room on full wail hotly pursued by Jade still trying to make her point and SB explaining that Jade was *making* her beleive in God.  Now, i know we shouldn’t all have fallen about at such assaults to one’s dignity but I really couldn’t help it (sorry SB!)

me selecting the wrong "unnamed road, Galasheils" and ending up at the swimming pool instead of Asda - see?  I fessed up to it!  

Aprilia saying "Look Mummy, Merry has put lots of Fimo out to buy.  I’ll just go and play somewhere else for a bit should I whilst you chose my birthday present" then frisking me and searching our bags later on.  Little did she know…. Mummy Bean bought it insead

The Bad

Journies, well, okay, I’m being over dramatic here, they weren’t THAT bad really I supose….

Aprilia taking poorly on the last night (she’s much better now, amazing what sleeping the clock round a few times can do really!)

Not being able to get Cherry Coke at Tebay - normal stuff is just not as nice but it does have the same wakey wakey effect so it had to do.

The Ugley

Hmm, that award would have to go to my current laundry pile I beleive.  Ho hum, Life returns to "nromal" on Monday and I’m sure it can wait til then! 

The Post Mortem

 I think I enjoyed this Melrose better than any of the others.  Can’t really pin down why but it just seemed so much easier this time.  It seemed to go by really fast.  I’m sorry I didn’t hang round to say byee to peeps this morning but having been up since just past 5 with a hot, intermittenly sobbing child I felt taht just giving "our" bathroom a quick once over (in the hopes it wouldn’t get too grubby in the following few hours!) and sweeping our room (cos that’s a lot quieter than vac-ing at 6am!) and tucking her up in the car was preferable to having her drooped over me whilst I tried to do anything more.  As it was she still managed to get herself shut outside in her PJs when she went looking for me in the 2 minutes I wasn’t visible (bad mama, going to the loo!) which reduced her to a total wreck, poor thing.

So now it’s on to the next excitements… a Wedding and a Birthday!