Camping alone (ish)

First night camping, both kids asleep by 7.30 and 8.20 very peacefully (whoop!). I'm very impressed with them (and us). 🤗 Wind in the trees, gentle rain. Man gone home until tomorrow night.

Thank goodness I'm with a friend and her husband and their two year old, and not totally alone tomorrow. Their four year old was also meant to come but has a tummy bug, so our four year old is rather unimpressed with the play options. We do have some play huts and a playground, plus their bikes and rockets...and we're planning a trip to Wookey Hole tomorrow, so hopefully he'll be reasonably happy. 😊

First time camping with both kids and no man. 😳  Looking forward to his return tomorrow night. 😍

Pants

Daughter refused nappies after lunch. She is currently wearing pants, a crown and a bracelet. It's a good look. 😍 I think the time has come. Can't fend it off any longer!

A two year old's job

Me: please don't pull clothes off the bannister.

Daughter: hmm, I'm just doing my job...

😂😂😂

Danger

Top stair gate gone. Feels empty, dangerous, crazy! 😜

Was more dangerous keeping it, given the kids fight over it... 🙄

Change

Daughter has been sleeping more than usual. Wondering if it was a precursor to a development leap. As well as talking better sentences, she ate banana today and oaty bar AND licked a piece of seaweed. My joy at this progress it literally sky high! 😂

Summer days

The A3 looks suspiciously like a motorway. I specifically told my satnav no motorways. Crept along it in torrential rain and thunder, after a gorgeous, if slightly short, rainy walk with my friend and her son (daughter wasn't too keen on the rain, the walk or the pancakes I brought her, so early departure was necessary). Upside of driving in heavy rain is you can't hear the kids. Despite the challenges, I kept my Zen, and have arrived home with only a minor stiff neck. 😍🤗

Perfect days

I've had such a perfect few weeks that I thought I'd cracked this parenting thing.

After a perfect few weeks, today has been less than. Today has been difficult. Unhappy kids in the forest (too cold and wet) and unhappy at the Look Out (too busy). Should've trusted my instinct and stayed home to play on our first cold wet day for months. Just as dinner almost made, daughter turns up in the kitchen, hands dripping in neon pink slime which is all over her clothes and all over the dining room! As she napped this afternoon (couldn't wake her for love nor money), I'm expecting a loooong evening too.

Wish me luck anyone who has had a day that just somehow keeps trying to go all wrong! ❤️

Returning

Seven minutes to home. It will be lovely to be home and to see our friends again (feels like an eternity we've been away, though it was only 11 days). As always I've left a part of my heart in Croatia. Until next year. ❤️