Mothers Day

What a lovely weekend i have had, Friday the little guys each gave me a card they had made, i tried to get them to wait till today but they could barely wait till we got home from school. Fred even made some lemon hand scrub that is amazing so i will be asking nursery for the recipe! Ewan card made me smile they had to write words to describe there mum and had put all the usual, best, kind but had put a " Good Cook" and "Creative" as well, nice that he seemed to have thought about it and thats what he thinks of me.

Today i decided on an easy day s i  filled the slow cooker up with a new recipe i found called Campfire Stew, which really now i think about it is more like a full breakfast all mixed together without the egg, its a gammon joint, tins of beans and tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and potatoes with some herbs. Its so nice to come in and know the tea is done and it seems to have gone down well. We had been to drop some flowers and a card to my mum and then headed to the beach for a picnic, it was pretty nippy down there but as its mothers day i decided to let Paul venture down to the sea with them and i sat in the warm car with the sun blazing down, knitting. One by one the kids came back to sit with me in the car.

Yesterday i took the older two swimming, Alex had been sick all day and ill for a few days so he and Fred stayed home with Paul.

 Its part of my gym membership i get free swimming so thought it would be nice to start taking them. I think Swimming is a really expensive outing otherwise, £5 each for adults, £2.90 for over 5s and 60p for under 5s, so for us to go its £17. Considering to take them all to the waterpark is about £25. But i think we will make it a more regular thing. Also it was nice to spend time with just the older ones.

Afterwards we had a walk through Fleetwood and bought some chips to warm us up.

We walked trough Fleetwood Market which is where i go to get my wool and craft supplies, they have the most fantastic stall which is just piled up with everything, i could spend hours rummaging through it all and its so cheap!

After we caught the bus home and got to sit up top for a change without the pram!

It was such a bright and sunny weekend such a contrast to the end of last week when we had some snow! Not quite enough to play in but we had to walk to school while it was coming down which was nice.. but cold.

Secretly i am hoping for some more!