The wedding weekend

My sister got married this weekend. It’s been a while in the planning, this wedding – they booked the hotel a year ago. Got to say that it was very good – it’s an incredibly picturesque location, the hotel staff were outstanding, and I saw lots of ppl that I haven’t seen for a very long time.

The children loved it – was talking to Small about it tonight as I put him to bed, and got lots of smiling and nodding as I asked him whether he’d had fun. He particularly liked the bouncy castles (one yesterday, one today), his posh clothes, and his monkey. All the bridesmaids/ pageboys got a present, and for the younger ones it was a Bear Factory toy, Small has a monkey called Cheeky, and Big has a pink elephant called Flower. Since he got the monkey, he’s carried it around with him most of the time, and as he’s previously not really been attached to any toys, I’m assuming this means he’s very pleased with it.

Big decided that she would go back to the house with the other children, so she left about 8ish. Small kept going for a little while, then keeled over at 9, so Tim took a plate of food up to the room and went to bed himself. I stayed in the party room and danced 🙂 I like dancing, and I don’t get much opportunity.

I did finish the shrug, but it didn’t look much like the piccie, so I didn’t wear it in the end. I think I’ll frog it (I think that’s the right term) and work out a slightly different pattern, looser around the back, with a little more coverage in front. Hugely disappointed by that as I worked really hard on it (didn’t I Barbara?), but it really didn’t suit.

Weirdnesses of the weekend included standing in the middle of the dance floor with a bottle of red wine in one hand and a glass in the other talking to my sisters employer about home education. She, M, had specifically come to find us, having heard about our interesting ways on the grapevine. Then there was dancing with my youngest sister and a Bon Jovi track came on, that we’d heard live when I took her to a concert when I was at uni and she was, um, about 14. She got sunburnt 😉 Think I might have got Big a spanish penpal – family friend of my parents was there with his 7 year old daughter, and the girls hit it off pretty well.

I’m sure there was lots more that I was going to say, but I’m really tired, so I’ll be back tomorrow.

I’ll even try to blog what’s going on in our day to day lives.