Malbridge House

Thankfully yesterday morning I got my lay-in, Malc got up with the two youngest about 7ish and he let me have a couple more hours, he’s a goodun’. I don’t now what’s wrong lately I’m so tired all the time, we have a good diet, we exercise, we do have periods where we have a lot of stress and I know that can tire you out. I think it’s having five children and a four bedroomed house to keep up together, sometimes I just feel exhausted.

Anyway, Malc had Monday off as holiday so we pottered about in the morning, of course it was raining,so our planned outing of dogwalking and picnicing had to be cancelled.

We went to our favourite petshop to buy some sand sheets for the budgies, ended up buying them a swing each. Aaww…

Bought a halti collar for Burley because I’m fed up of being pulled down the road by him, I’ve used these before with great success.

In our old mini-bus we had a dog cage in the back, Malc took out a couple of seats, but he didn’t want to in this one and I’ve found it more difficult to take the dogs out with us because one of the children has to hold them on their leads, so Malc has taken out one of the seats and we bought another dog cage to go in the back, that way all the dogs can go in it to travel and I know they’re safe, it’s much easier to get children and dogs out when we reach our destination, safer too.

Today I was hoping to put this to the test, but it’s been pouring down all day, so much so that we all got up and took Malc to work this morning because he would have got absolutely soaked, see I do love him!

So I did a huge pile of ironing whilst Eden, Callum and Clark answered their emails, Eden had quite a few as she belongs to a children home-ed yahoo group.

Then we sat and did the puzzle that they started a couple of days ago, Soloman and Cody were asleep so we could do it in peace. Puzzles aren’t usually my "thing" but I quite enjoyed helping them.

I read the first of the "Flat Stanley" books so that they know what the "Flat Travellers" are based on.

We’ve also got a couple more of the series out of the library.

Eden’s back at guides this evening, they’re meant to be putting up tents and cooking outside, luckily it’s brightened up a bit now for them.