Yesterday was utterly miserable - starting with full blown falling out with BB (All because there were no bananas to go with the cereal), piddling rain (which added to the dripping roof problem from Monday) a V. cranky LL, who to be honest (I think) is hating toddlers at the moment as he is constantly getting picked on. More whining from BB, the insurance people calling me up and telling me to arrange my own repairs, the repair man telling me the roof had been done wrong in the first place and that I'd have to do some serious blagging to get the insurance people to cough up (otherwise it could cost me in excess of £3k and that's just to fix the roof - never mind the internal repairs), my tenant calling to say that the shower is cracked and that they'd be moving out in 7 weeks time - did I mention the rain?(actually I omitted that I'd left the car window about 5 inches open and the interior of the car was soaked!) Parking next to a 2 inch puddle at the supermarket......oh it goes on!
One bright spot was getting to meet a beautiful 5 day old baby girl.
Precious!
Today however? - completely different ball park. After severe insomnia, coupled with two rude interruptions by my eldest I was dreading the worst.....
I was awoken by a call from said tenant at 8am asking where the hot water tank was situated (for the plumber) and although there was silence in the house I didn't drift off. I lay awake for about 20 mins before I got up. BB got out of the right side of bed, as did LL. In addition the sun was streaming in. WOW.
After brekkie, I opened the sun room doors, popped on some shoes to the boys and let them romp outside in their pyjamas whilst I ironed 2 loads of washing......and there it started. I completed a further 2 loads of washing and air dried them, blew up a water slide for BB and filled a paddling pool for LL, set up a sprinkler in the garden for the boys to run through (LL was having none of it though.....I think he has a morbid fear of any flying water after his brother drenched him the other day with the hose!) I did the motherly thing and took turns with the boys pushing them down the water slide (after I'd soaped it up so it would be super slippy!) I cooked pancakes and made sarnies for lunch, I texted friends to invite all and sundry over (kinda pleased I got a bunch of polite refusals though!) I washed two cars, watered our greenhouse plantation, raked the vegetable patch, read stories up in the climbing frame and even managed to make some lemon sole goujons (in breadcrumbs) for dinner. I edited some pics and sent them to a friend. I am a bit annoyed at myself though - as I had planned to cut the grass - but it's clouded over and I think it may be damp with dew.....Doubt we'll get sun two days in a row!
I am now planning an early night with some photo mags, location location and a cup of tea!
