So i'm sat in my dining room, all on my own. Kids in bed, house trashed and i'm bloody shattered!!!
THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS ARE HERE!!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!!!
we've been up since the crack of dawn. This is usually bad enough.....but when there is absolutely no reason for it!!!!! it makes you want to cry under the duvet. I slink down under the cover and try to drown out the noise of the tv downstairs. Which incidently has to be on at full volume. Once I feel it is safe and late enough to emerge from my haven. I slowly peel the covers down. A naked toddler caked from head to foot in chocolate spread rattles a box of sweets in my face "MUM-EEEE, MUM-EEEE OPEN DIS ONE. MUUUM-EEEEEEE"
URGH.........................................................................
So Im up.........well awake. I make my way to bathroom negotiating the entire contents of the lego box spread across the landing. I feel a huge sense of achievement at having not trodden on a single piece. But then I remember. You only step on lego when it sneaks up on you. so it will be at some point in the next week when even having hoovered I will step unsuspectingly impale myself on lego barefoot!!!!!!
THATS THE JOY OF THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS ;)
The sand in between your toes...........and your sofa cushions, your tiles, the washing machine door and the line of sand that runs down the bathtub once you've emptied it.........I particularly like that bit!!!
The sun on your face..............and your car making it 100degrees when you get in, and your shoulders making the wearing of a seatbelt totally excruciating.
The sea laping at your feet.......especially if you foolishly shaved your legs that morning!!!
The wind in your hair :) and the ice-cream, vomit, caked in sand and nit lotion by the end of the summer!!!!
Oh dont you just love it? and the kids, There little faces, They are so fucking happy they could cry!!!!!! oh, hang on. No, thats the sand in there eye, graze on there knee and the beating a sibling has just dished out!!!!!!
And at the end of the day when you finally collapse you utter those three magic words no parent can escape........ for fuck sake!!!!!!!
