Hope that everybody is enjoying their saturday's and managed to get the cleaning done before guests arrived, and once arrived, guests were well behaved?
My day thus far - typed on normal keyboard which allows for more waffle than normal....
Our family fun day also started with a very uncooperative child, this time a swimming lesson with dd, i'm still in with her as she's only just 2, all the other kids seem to have got the hang of it, mine still screams 'out out, shower shower, bye bye water' as soon as we get in the pool and clings on for dear life, some weeks are better than others, i dare to say that she sometimes likes it, but today was not one of those days, her mood and general grumpiness, which i could hear echoing around the swimming pool started within approximately 10 seconds of getting in. Am looking forward to the time she can go in unassisted and i can sit behind the class with a coffee and muffin.
on return from swimming, decided to get out of the house to give dh chance to start on the neverending hall, stairs and landing project, thought would be nice to take kids for a walk, but was up on the tops, and icy icy cold, very windy and started to sleet and hale, not a good combination.
Got home to discover that Mrs Welsumer was definitely no longer well and therefore had to be despatched, FIL stepped up to do the deed, DH no longer quite so alpha male about it all following disastrous attempt last time, believe it went ok. Feel bad that had kept her going for a number of days, and would have been kinder to do it at the start of last week, but had hoped she would improve. Rather selfishly, am pleased that i don't have to hand feed her, (gip gip gip) as my watch was going to start on Monday if she had improved, although to be honest, am not sure i could have brought myself to do it, even in a life and death situation, would have been far too shaky. Luckily, am not too attached to our chicken, the bird phobia has helped on that one, am not some hard nosed cow, i had to take two days off work when our cat died a couple of years ago, but chickens were bought for production purposes, so am sad that will no longer have Mrs Welsumer's nice brown and long eggs and she was a sweet hen (from an appropriate distance). Rather stupidly, had chicken for dinner (not Mrs Welsumer) and DH made a comment about it which put me off
DH has indeed come up trumps and started with the undercoating of the neverending hall stairs and landing project. Got quite excited as this is monumental and months and months in the making, therefore decided to jump in to help to speed up process and then remembered within approximately 1 minute of picking up the brush, that i hate painting and that it is far more exciting then it looks. I think that i will stick to helping in the form of taking kids out to give him space to do it.
That's it for now, hope you all have good sundays