April Showers

Dan was 3.5 on April 1st and so off we went for his booster jabs.  As it fell during the Easter holidays, we went mob handed, but despite the best amuse-and-distract efforts of his brothers, he really cried.  Still, as the nurse said to me, that's it now, no more injections until secondary school unless something changes, and they're unlikely to want to sit in my lap for those!

Tiff took the boys away to stay with his Mum and Dad for a few days. The only thing I don't like about working is having to juggle the school holidays.  They had a lovely time and it was nice to have the chance to miss them, if that doesn't sound too awful.

At the end of the month, I got an early birthday present.  I have been wanting a new bike for ages. My current mountain bike is not very comfortable to ride with a child seat on the back and, being unisex, has a high cross bar which makes it hard to get on and off, especially in a work skirt.  What I really wanted was a bike with a step over cross bar and a basket for all my bits (Dan gets grumpy at having a rucksack in his face and who could blame him?).  We'd been talking about it for a while, but were spurred into action when we heard that a small road between home and work was to be closed for three weeks from the beginning of May, making it pretty impossible to drive.

 

 

 Preciousssssssss. :)

 

Of course, it doesn't look quite so elegant with a great big plastic toddler seat on the back, but you can't have everything.

 

The other terribly exciting news of the month, which you will be pleased to hear, I shall not illustrate with a photo, is that Dan has started using the potty, mostly reliably.  Let joy be unconfined. 

Marching On

March was taken up with a short, sweet half term leading up to Easter.  My work was very busy, preparing not only for Easter, but re-writing our Electoral Roll and preparing for our Annual Meeting.  I helped with the last bits of these when I first started there last year, so it feels like full circle to be doing them again.

AND, I won something.  One of my favourite blogs is Parenting, Illustrated with Crappy Pictures.  If you haven't read it, you should check it out, because it is so funny and if you're a parent, the "oh YES" moments are great.  The writer, Amber Dusick, has written a book and did a give-away of some signed mini taster copies.  I won one.  Squeeee!!  It's very funny and I can't wait for the full length book.

 

 

We marked Good Friday by going to a family fun morning at church.  It was crazy-busy with lots of children from both the church family and the wider community and we had huge fun.

Easter Saturday, Dan wasn't very well, so on the Sunday, I peeled myself out of bed early-early to go to the Sunrise Service in the Country Park, followed by breakfast in the church hall.  Tiff was playing in the band for the main service, so it fell to me to stay home with the boys.  It was a beautiful service and I was very glad I made the effort to get up.  The clocks changed the night before, so it was a BIG effort.

It was also very cold.  You could see a circle melted in the frost as we left, where our feet had been shuffling about, trying to keep warm!