as I haven’t yet this year!
As has been mentioned elsewhere, we went away for New Year’s Eve. Big was delivered back at 9am on the morning, along with her friend A, and I pottered about getting ready to go over to Meltham, while Tim raced about and went off to Leeds to meet with his elder daughter.
Took ages to get organised, and A and Big were being pretty horrid – by this point they’d been together about 36 hours. Big was being far worse than A, so I asked her whether she behaved like that for A’s mother – she said not, so I asked why she behaved like that for me – because you’re my mummy, she said. Hm.
Over to Meltham for 2ish, and met Jonathon and the girls at the bottom of the lane. The children were very quickly off and about doing whatever it is they do – as I’d expected, Big and A were much better in the bigger space, and Small just joins in and potters about.
Tim got back from Leeds via Halifax about 4 and Jan arrived shortly after. We had a lovely evening – all the children in bed shortly after 8, some of them even asleep 😉 Good meal, good wine, good company, good conversation – right up til Small woke up screaming. He didn’t stop screaming til we eventually brought him downstairs, and he slept on my knee for the rest of the evening. Jan’s mum came round, and that was our NYE party – and very pleasant it was too.
Unfortunately, my night wasn’t nearly as pleasant. Small was determined to sleep with me, so spending the night on a single bed with him kind of put paid to any sleep I might have got, then Big decided to crash her head into into the bedroom door at 4am, and the two big girls got up and woke up Small at just after 7. Hohum. Who needs sleep anyway?
Most of New Years Day passed in a bit of a haze for me – I know that did some baking and so on, then eventually I gathered up my tribe and went home, via my sister’s. Big was given another Chrimble pressie, and the less said about that the better. A’s mother arrived for him shortly after they’d finished tea, and then it was an early(ish) night all round.
Today I’ve been over to Doncaster for a meeting with the local home eddors to discuss ways to deal with an over officious official. So I haven’t seen all that much of the children today. Big didn’t want a bedtime story tonight though, so I got to play Set with her instead. That’s my girl 😉
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4 responses to “Thought I should blog”
Sorry Jax, I’m going to ignore all your news and just say “wow” and send (((hugs))) to Tim. Hope it went well.
Well, I didn’t blog more about it as I felt it was his news rather than mine, but yes, I think it went well. Hopefully she is going to want to meet her siblings soon.
I hope you all decided to Kick a*** on the ‘official’ LOL Steve has a daughter that is 21 from his previous marriage. We have always had a good relationship although now she is working and has a night-life we only see her once or twice a year. Hope things work out for you Tim (and Jax, B and S).
I thought I’d missed something ’til I saw the other’s comments! Glad it went OK. How does Big feel about having an older ‘sister’ then or have you not told her yet?
Happy New Year – I missed you being about for a couple of days…