Synchronization of Us

Day 2 of the summer holidays was much better than day 1.

Three years ago i wrote about the visits my sister and i make to my grans house . We still try to visit as often as we can normally during school holidays . We are so blessed to still have her in our lives and the children just adore their great gran.

We left early , my sister and i and the 4 kids . We walked in the sunshine and enjoyed the time together. It was busy at my grans , my aunt and 2 cousins were there (1 aged 8 and the other an adult and yes they are sisters) and my adult cousin had her 6 and 4 year old with her. The kids all spent hours playing together sometimes upstairs and at other times out in the garden.

My girls discovered a huge plant pot full of mud and spent a good part of the time playing in it , they got filthy but had such a good time. Almost 4 hours later we made it home , just in time for dinner and bath and bed.

Tomorrow we are going out with my mother in law to it is sure to be busy to , i look forward to it.

It is day one of what is sure to be a long summer .

It is not just the lack of nursery that is getting to me but the lack of everything . No nursery , no toddlers groups , no garden and from the weather forecast no sun. Of course daddy is also away as is my mother in law for the first half which means weekends are just the same as during the week.

I have 3 children and 7 days to fill with nothing , we have little spare pennies and everything seems to cost a bundle. Im trying to look on the bright side and look forward to spending the time with my family but im terrified of it being a summer of stuck indoors.

It is also day one of hubbies first full day in France again and boy does it suck . The kids are not taken it well, Eilidh broke her heart on the car ride home yesterday as did Rebecca when talking to her daddy tonight . She went to sleep crying and begging for him to come home . It is so hard for me not to cry during these moments.

At least we are busy tomorrow , Thursday and Friday so far . Im trying to not think to far ahead and just plan one week at a time .

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It seems i have been taken a little break.

My husband took a few days off work and we have been enjoying plenty of family time. We finally made it to the zoo yesterday and we have all been hanging out and having fun. Craig goes back again on Sunday so every moment is very important to us.

We are gearing up to the end of summer and Rebecca’s move to school. We have been school clothes shopping and attended her nursery graduation and a welcome assembly from the school. Rebecca is as excited as can be and is mostly looking forward to homework!!!!!

The graduation was very cute and both girls made me smile, although Eilidh could do with not shouting throught the songs so much. I do have a few videos to share but will put them up along with some more pictures in a passworded post , as always email me if you need it.

Here is my girls collecting her certificate from the schools head teacher.

And a picture with her friend A , they are pretty close and both sad they will be seperated next year . He is only 3 and will remain in nursery with Eilidh

And an another of Rebecca with another 2 friends A and R , they are the 3 from the afternoon class going into big school together .

And here is my baby is her school unifrom *sob*

Serisously where does time go?

I am not sure how much i will post this week , but wanted to get something up.

Each year for Rebecca’s birthday we try to visit Kelvingrove Park . This park is important to us as a family, hubby and i spent many hours walking around it when Rebecca was first in the hospital and going back as a family is amazing. We hope it is a tradition we always keeps up.

I have blogged about it before - when she turned 2 , and when she turned 3 but not when she turned 4 because for some reason we never made it last year.

On her 1st Birthday

On her 2nd Birthday

On her 3rd Birthday

And on her 5th

And a few other of my favorite pictures from the weekend .

For months now we have been planning Rebecca’s birthday. She was given a choice of (big) party or family zoo trip and she choose a trip to the zoo . The weather has been decent lately so we were optimistic that her birthday would be ok.

Of course the best laid plans and all that because the weather was horrible, windy and cold and very wet . The zoo trip was off, there was no way any of us wanted to spend a day like yesterday outside. This weekend is predicted to be lovely though so its rescheduled for Sunday.

So what could we do ? We decided to take the kids to Sea Life in Loch Lomand . It was inside and not to expensive (booking online saved us £5 per person so a massive £20 overall) .

We had been to a deep sea world before so we knew what to expect and that it would not be the type of place we would spend all day.

We all had a blast though, the kids loved the fish and other animals and i think Craig and i had a pretty good time to . We eat lunch in the car and at request of Rebecca decided to head to a soft play closer to home . The kids all played happily there the rest of the day , all making friends (even Ru with a little girl his age. IT WAS SO STINKING CUTE) .

I have not many pictures to share, chasing after a 1 year old does not leave much time for it but wanted to share a few i did take.

A certain someone turns 5 today ,can you guess who?

This little girl *my baby* is now 5 years old . When this post goes live we will be at the zoo celebrating and wanted to leave some pictures to share.

We had her birthday tea party on Sunday , she was spoiled and everyone had a great time.

How can she be five? How can i have a five year old?

They waited patiently for people to arrive