The Moiderer

Bank Holiday weekend.

Here is a collection of photos from our Bank Holiday Weekend together

Weekend Snapshots

It wasn’t the best of weekends to be honest.

A very good friend died at the start of the week.

The hubby has been really ill and understandably grumpy so I was running around after him and getting nowhere.

And work …well I can’t talk much about that here but suffice to say I have this amazing future ahead of me but it’s out of reach. It’s like I’m running towards it but on a treadmill. It doesn’t matter whether I sprint or jog, I get no closer. All I know is that I can’t stop. I feel trapped and hopeless right now and that really affected me at the weekend.

That said I still managed to do plenty with the little one.

She had a birthday party in a soft play on Saturday so I left her to it and went for a run in the sunshine round the local park.

I walked the first bit because I ended up chatting to the hubby on the phone. It was nice to have a run.

I went to look at cars with the little one on Saturday. She chose this one

But I’m looking at downgrading mine and trying to find a cheaper 4x4

On Sunday I watched the marathon with excitement. It was great to watch it on the telly and remember parts of the course and it actually really made me feel great about running it last year. I wore my finisher t-shirt all day!

The little one was going a little stir crazy though so I took her to the park for a while

I even finished the weekend with another 5km run on Sunday evening.

I had calmed down enough by Sunday to enjoy myself a bit. Just in time to get wound up again for Monday morning!

Weekend Snapshots

The little one was absolutely full of a cold going into the weekend…so on Friday night I spent the night in bed with her and we were up early on Saturday.

Soon after the hubby was up I went back to sleep and corpsed out for a couple of hours.

So unlike our normal weekends, Saturday was spent in front of the TV watching films. I picked up Hotel Transylvania which has just come out and we watched that.

She then fell asleep on me.

For me this is the best feeling in the world ever – having the little one snuggled up asleep on me. It makes me feel secure, content and purposeful all at the same time.

In the early hours of Sunday morning the little one woke up and came through. Having heard her I got out of bed to try and meet her half way (it was 3am)

Staggering through the dark, I reached the doorway to discover the little one lying face down on the floor. I found her with my foot. This is what she looked like in the morning. Bad mummy

Then on Sunday we went to McDonalds for brekkie as we usually do

Lizard came with us. There was an incident later where Lizard lost a couple of toes and there was lots of crying! But we managed to bandage him up. Apparently he’s still poorly today though.

Then we went to see Wreck it Ralph which I accidentally saw in 3D. This was a first for the little one and I

And I was a bit worried about getting motion sickness but actually was fine. I loved the film but didn’t think the 3D added much to it.

Then the hubby was teaching a guitar lesson again so the little one got to play with her friend. She loves Just Dance 4 on Xbox Kinect and wanted to show her friend – so I set them up. Her friend wasn’t that impressed!

Not a bad weekend all things considered.

Weekend snapshots

This weekend was a little different. There were no new films out and I couldn’t face watching Rise of the Guardians for the squillionth time.

The first thing I had to do was empty this trailer of wood that the gardener had left after chopping down my tree. I took a picture some way in

The little one helped in her own way by playing in a puddle of water until her hands froze!

Anyway – I did it.

Then we went to town.

Then we went to buy Tangled on DVD because we bought a set of characters from the Disney store after she saw it at Xmas.

They didn’t have it at Tesco’s so we walked over to ToysRus and luckily found a copy there. Then we went to Pizza hut for dinner

The characters joined us. Another lovely GF pizza though

Then today the little one ran through at 8am (woo hoo!) yelling “Mum, mum it snowed come and look”

Which I did. And it had. And it continued to all day

Today the hubby gave the first guitar lesson to the older sister of one of the little one’s friends. Her friend came over too and when the lesson was over I suggested she stay around for a play date.

We had lots of fun

Play-Doh making

Drinking hot chocolate

Dressing up.

And of course playing in the snow

Weekend Snapshots

Time for this weekend’s activities. Yesterday was a pretty busy day

We went to the cinema to see the new Tinkerbell film – which the little one loved

We grabbed the hubby and went to a pub with a soft play attached for our lunch

We stopped at Sainsbury’s on the way back to buy the Dark Knight Rises DVD which meant a ride on Thomas

I put the tree up and added the lights. The little one did the rest

We made decorations out of salt dough

And an angel for the top of the tree

I made chocolate orange fudge as a Xmas present for her teacher. Hoping it sets!

Weekend Snapshots

Ok are you ready? We’ve done a lot

We had a family trip to the dentist on Thursday. The little one and I got the all clear.

We had a trip to the restaurant across the road for dinner as a treat

We went to the cinema to see Rise of the Guardians a second time. Still good

The we went to see Father Christmas in Camperdown Park

I thought the queue didn’t look too long

I was wrong. It took well over an hour to get to this point. Then just as we were close to the front the little one said she needed a wee! Luckily a nice lady held our place and we legged it to the toilet and back. Well sort of because her toes were so cold from queuing we couldn’t run!

I didn’t realise that Santa was from Liverpool!

She had an angel painted on her face after

She kept checking it was still there

As she had the cream from her hot chocolate between 2 crisps

We grabbed dinner for her from McDonalds because we missed lunch

Her drawing is coming on so well. This is Mr Spiky Head and she’s doing an impression of him

We made  Xmas cards for school. I hate giving Xmas cards but we don’t want her to stand out as different so we used it as a chance to do some crafting

I had a Secret Santa to get so we popped to town and she had a go on Brum with SuperGirl and then we went to Starbucks. She insisted I took a photo of her pulling funny faces!

Weekend Snapshots

The luxury of a full weekend at home after being away last Saturday

We went to the cinema to see Rise of the Guardians. We both enjoyed it and I found I couldn’t eat most of my popcorn – yeah!

We made Gluten Free mince pies. They are yummy

I read this book to the little one. I can highly recommend it. It deals with the difficult subject of child abuse and secrets in a child friendly way. Hard to read but worthwhile

Look what I got from Lakeland limited!! So excited. I’m thinking chocolate orange house?

Our McDonalds is being refurbished so went to a different one for breakfast. It was a beautiful morning

And a beautiful day

You can’t catch me mummy!

On guard!

Then we went to town and she was thrilled to spot the ride

And we finished off with a Starbucks

Weekend Snapshots

A full and active weekend this weekend as I had the whole weekend with the little one apart from a spot on Saturday when I was seeing a client.

So here goes

 

We made a cake on Friday evening

On a frosty morning we set off to the park

Where we played at being the big bad wolf

We watched some TV

Went on some rides

And went to Pizza Hut for gluten free pizza and a strawberry shake.

Then we went to HobbyCraft

And we got some plasticine to make aliens with

We went to McDonalds for brekkie and she drew a swan duck

And we made finger puppets and a finger puppet theatre

And now we’re both knackered!

Weekend Snapshots

After being away for 4 days over last weekend, I had a lot to make up for this weekend.

Yesterday we went to the cinema (Hotel Transylvania for the second time and still just as good), the toy shop to get her a pram for her baba and out for a little while on her trike

Today we went to McDonalds for brekkie as usual

Then we went to Tesco’s and then for a swim. After that we went to the park to kick a ball around

And Starbucks so I could get my supply of the Christmas blend coffee beans in

I think I made up for my absence.

Weekend snapshots

We did so much this weekend. Let me share some photos

And we went to the cinema to see FrankenWeenie (ok) and Hotel Transylvania (highly recommend)