Monday

Oh Monday, how quickly you find us again! Evie woke us up at three minutes to eight this morning. Dave’s supposed to be in work at eight thirty. Neither of our alarms went off at seven as they were supposed to and it seems we are blissfully able to snooze all morning if left to our own devices. Aside from the smallest one who didn’t fall asleep until gone ten last night. Sigh. Still, he made it to work for eight thirty-five. We made it to school for eight fifty. So it wasn’t so bad after all.

I never expected it but I’m so enjoying the whole ‘being with my family’ thing. I love cooking dinner for them in the evenings, I love the fact that D and I are able to work so well together. I dragged them all, including Honey, off to the Bog Meadow in Enniskerry yesterday after lunch amid cries of “Muuum, I don’t want to go out; I want a go on the computer…” but, once packed up in wellies and coats, the children ran all round the field and headed off down to the river with the dog. Obviously, being organised, I didn’t have my camera with me but I will have to see if I can take some of the photos from D’s phone because there were some nice ones. J managed to cross the river over a fallen tree. Evie just waded across, naturally. Honey was allowed to run round without her lead because there was no one much about and she loves splashing about in rivers. It’s so good to see her racing about. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog grin so much, even through a muzzle! There’s an ease and a sense of sharing, even when the children are being awkward or bratty, that makes this all feel good, like exhaling after holding your breath for longer than you thought you could.