arrrggh! Blinking surprise guests...

[edamsavestheday]

I love them dearly but we were having a Harry Potter film marathon this weekend. First part of Deathly Hallows yesterday, final film today. dh had just rung to say he was delayed coming back and we could start without him, and I'd just said 'oh, no, we'll wait for you' when the phone went.

It was VERY old friends (well he is, don't know her that well yet) who were in the area and wanted to drop in... and they stayed until dh got back. Until a time which meant we couldn't watch the whole film before ds's bedtime. So once they'd gone we got the DVD on but had to stop it half way through, just after Harry realises he was wrong about Snape.

Grrr grrr grrr grr. I love our friend dearly and am quite prepared to get to know his girlfriend but really inconvenient!

p.s. I would be tempted to be Very Mean and wait until ds has gone to sleep and then watch the rest, but dh has fallen asleep as well. Which is a Sign From On High that I should behave myself and wait with everyone else.

Any road, dh put it on the x-box and I don't know how to work the x-box (am not a gamer) so I'm not really being A Good Mother.

Well I think that's very sad - how lovely to have a friend wanting to drop in like that - you can watch a film anytime not that I would ever want to watch a Harry Potter

yes yes yes it was very lovely, just inconvenient!

You would rather watch a film you've already seen (and probably seen more than once) than spend time with a friend you don't see all that often?
To quote Ron, "She NEEDS to get her priorities straight."

I hadn't seen the last two before, tbh. But it wasn't that, it was that dh and ds and I had plans to do something nice together, all snuggled up on the sofa, and had already done the first half of our plans and were looking forward to round 2.

That time is precious especially as dh and I both work full-time at the moment and every weekend dh has to go off to see MIL, who is very frail and elderly and not well and moved into a nursing home quite recently. (He quite often takes ds btw, but it's not always appropriate, depending on how well MIL is - the other patients in the dementia wing can be a bit scary for ds, as well). And I go sometimes too, just not every weekend.

So we were looking forward to dh coming home and having some time just snuggled up all together, relaxing and enjoying something together. Not least because it can be upsetting for dh to see his Mum feeling very down or being very confused.

That's long-winded, and I wouldn't have gone into it all if you hadn't asked. This was supposed to be light-hearted.