camping inside

Saturday Andy wanted to see if our tent is big enough for us all to fit in so decided to pitch it in the lounge much to the excitement of the pixies.

They spent most of the day playing in the tent and having Andy read them stories . I however spent most of the day sitting or laying on the sofa feeling rotten. Am finding meeting the needs of the pixies and parenting gently a real challenge while feeling so lacking in energy .

we have had a very quiet week and Ive felt very guilty for not being the mummy i want to be and being very grumpy, was relieved when the weekend arrived and i had Andy's help he has been brilliant cooking lovely meals and making cakes and entertaining the children and letting me cry all over him about what a terrible mummy i feel.

Sunday and the pixies had a sleep in and didn't get up at 5.00am which has made a big difference to my energy levels and theirs, so i got the pixies all wellyed up and took them to the park for the first time in days .

we had a really lovely time we all needed the fresh air and change of scenery.

Had a lovely afternoon playing cars with Daisy who was very glad of some one on one attention .

Fingers crossed the week ahead will be more positive x

Today we.....

took some playmobil people swimming with a frog and some sharks.

Did a car conga

picked Dandilions in the park

and played with our new purple ball.

Oh look oh no its a Gruffalo!

My beautiful Doodles who is having her summer holidays with my mum and dad it kind of worked out well as on Sunday the all day morning sickness set in but at least i don't have to worry about taking Doodles for walks while feeling dreadful.

We set out for the park and Ben was very insistent that Obi-Wan Kenobi came too .

Here he is enjoying a ride in my bag .

Andy the week before had found two little Gruffalo soft toys at the carboot sale . so i smuggled them out and placed them on the rockery for the pixies to find .

As you can see they were very much appreciated .

5.4.3.2.1........Lift off!

My 'welcome home and oops look what i bought ' flowers.

Andy's been salivating over these bike trailers for months now and finally found a preloved one on Ebay .

Andy was itching to get it all set up and put the pixies in it ,who didn't need any encouraging and were very excited mainly i think because Ben thought it was a spaceship :)

Test flight in the park and a very happy Andy.

Our trip up north

Its taken me a while but have managed to upload the photos of our trip up north .

The day we arrived after a unexpectedly peaceful train journey we went for a walk in the sunshine to a beautiful wood aptly named 'Spring Wood' and it more than lived up to its name the forest floor was covered in thousands of bluebells it was stunning.

pixies running through the bluebells

A man on a horse and cart arrived so Ben wanted to stroke the horse and the man kindly let Ben sit on the horse which you can tell by the photo he was really chuffed about it, the horse wasn't so excited and just carried on munching the grass.

You can just about see Doodles in this photo she loved the woods too ,I'm sure she was imagining she was a wolf as she galloped through the undergrowth :) she was a blur of black .

Doodles couldn't resist scrabbling up on this big tree to join us for a photo opportunity.

Daisy and Grandad.

On Grandads 60th birthday we all went out for a meal and Daisy really enjoyed herself i forgot to bring a bib so she covered herself in pasta sauce.

Pixies with Uncle Robert

After the meal we all went to the park in the drizzel but Ben and Daisy didn't seem to mind .

On Wednesday it rained so much we resorted to going to the soft play centre .

It rained even more so Grandad spend quite a lot of the time reading stories to the pixies, their favourite was a old book of my brothers called Gumdrop by Val Biro about a vintage car and its owner .

The rain stopped long enough for a walk thankfully as we were all getting cabin fever .

proudly showing off her stick.

Ben inspecting a tractor.

He then noticed a tiny green fly on the wheel and spent ages watching it slowly walk across the wheel of the tractor.

On our last day we went to Clitheroe for a look round the charity shops and the castle. Unfortunately the castle was closed so we could only look at it . We did find a nice playground however.

Me untangling Ben from the rope climbing frame.

Clitheroe castle (its only a baby castle)

A beautiful tree made out of little paths next to the playground.

Daisy with another stick.

The day we went home there was just enough time before our train for another walk round the village where my family live.
We didn't get to do half the activity's we had planned because of the wet weather but we still really enjoyed ourselves despite me being half asleep most of the time after co-sleeping with two fidgety toddlers one who claimed there were spiders in her bed and another who was scarred of the lampshade in our bedroom !

Despite the lack of sleep i was sad to be leaving such a beautiful green place and Ben was sad to be leaving Grandma and grandad and cryed on the train home .

I think we will have to book a sunny week and come back for another week latter in the summer .

Ben and Grandma

Me pixies and a sheep.

Peaceful mummy and baby .