Duvet Day..

today is a duvet day if ever I saw one. It is dark and miserable outside, just right for going back to bed and reading and watching old movies. Unfortunately the dogs and sam don't argree as they are all bouncing off the walls ready to start the day (it only 6:30am as I write this). Today we have a fun day of cleaning and sorting out the playroom. We are hoping to locate sam's bike helmet as he is currently borrowing mine and it is a touch too big for him. Wish I could figure out a way to include the dogs in the whole cleaning the house event as they are the ones responsible for most of the dirt on the walls,floor and skirting boards!!

The rest of the week passed in a blurr of school work, seeing friends and catching tadpoles. Due to his schedule M was home quite a bit during the day each day which was nice. We managed a few nice family walks. The most recent one was to acquire more family members in the form of tadpoles! Sam has been begging for ages to go tadpoling and we finally gave in. We set up an old fish tank in the back yard and then trotted off to watermead. Half an hour later we emerged with a 2 ltr bottle of tapoles. M and sam spent ages installing them in their new home while the dogs tried to help. Everyone is enthralled with them, especially the two sams who will stand over the tank for ages discussing the activities in the tank. They have even named them, though how they can tell them apart I am sure I don't know. Once they have matured we intend to take them back to watermead, though sam is convinced that our local petshop will take them as payment for the terapin he has been begging for. (so not giving in to that request!!) I have tried to explain that they are only interested in exotic tree frogs but he won't believe me. We need to go in there today to get dog food and I fully expect that he will try and sweet talk his fav sales girl into buying the frogs.

Yesterday we went down to visit m's grandmother and aunt and then his parents. We had nice visits and were thoroughly spoilt by everyone we saw. Sam and the pups were shattered when we got home and everyone flopped straight into bed. Sam made a beeline for M's old lego at nana and grandad's and he and grandad spent a pleasant time putting together the lego train tracks. Lego is such a fantastic invention, I don't know what sam would do without it! he is very brand loyal though and will not even look a megablocks. In fact we had a long conversation in the car about mega blocks vs. lego and the nature of competition and market share and target audiences, all heavy topics for 8pm on a saturday evening! Who knew that my marketing qualification would come in handy as a stay at home mom!

Did another happy dance on thursday when the tickets for the concert arrived. Am saving the really big one for when we find out if we are really going. M still doesn't know if he can get the time off so am not getting too excited until we know. Fingers crossed that he can as it would be so much fun to go, not only that but I could pick up some more french barbapapa books for sam as he is really taken by them.