It’s been a funny old week. Change funny to stressful. We’re going on holiday Saturday. I know you know that already, anyone who knows me does, even those who don’t like the lady at Tesco and the Sky engineer! It blurts out of me at every opportunity.
I’m just so excited! It’s the light at the end of the tunnel and the quality time our family desperately needs! Did I mention the 4 hours childcare a day?? Lee and I will get to not just be Mum and Dad.
So it’s half term. We had so many plans. Like so many plans! Even as many as three play dates a day, we were planning to super socialise. We were going large without even paying 40p for the privilege.
We had the pesky pandemic to deal with and then the Pox came, Chicken Pox to be precise. I’m all for the boys strengthening their immune systems, but not just before holibobs. I don’t want to be looking at their spotty little faces over breakfast whilst I’m slurping on my first Bucksfizz of the day.
So I pretty much put the boys on house arrest apart from treating them to a trip to the tip! Even Grandad got cancelled!
Ooh I forgot to say that according to Harry and Ollie you get chicken pox when you get bitten by a chicken. In fairness their friend George did get bitten by a swan, but that was ages ago and surely it would have been called Swan Pox?
I’m on high alert with every scratch, cough and hiccup at the moment. I think the boys are playing me up! Harry actually itched his back on the wall like a bear earlier. Also when I lent in to give him a good night kiss he said he thought he was going to throw up in my face. Nice. He’s a charmer.
I did also treat them to a car ride today. It was longer than intended because I ended up driving through some fields instead of Bridgwater! Turns out Sunnybank is a place as well as a road, oopsie daisy. Plus I was driving on fumes. What a loony. As in I’d forgot to put fuel in my car, not that I was sucking up aerosols, don’t want any rumours starting! We dropped a little get well pressie off, pretty much threw it through the door, nothing like being made to feel like a leprechaun! I actually typed leper, but spell check changed it to leprechaun and I thought it was funny so left it in there.
Anyways, then on to Taunton to drop some keys in to the estate agent for my brother. I’m telling you, the Twinkles are having an awesome half term!! Actually, they’re such happy little chaps. We were singing along to toons in the car and Ollie stopped playing on his Kindle for a while to point out cloud shapes, there were a fair few dragons! Maybe he was sucking on aerosols in the back!!
We did have a funny conversation, it went something like this,
Ollie, out of the blue “ actually I think I would like to go to heaven”
Me “ when did you think you wouldn’t like to go to heaven?”
Ollie “earlier because I was feeling a bit shy”
Me “ and what changed your mind?”
Ollie “ there was a poster with a girl with a face split in two and black eyes”
No words!
I think it was a poster on the side of a church we’d just driven past and I actually think it was a happy poster, but Ollie didn’t describe it so well.
Ollie then started to play his game again and singing along to Bad Habits. Quick save!
Once on the motorway he piped up again,
“ Mum, do all these people live in heaven?”
Me “urm, no”
Ollie “ does Grandad live in heaven?”
Me, realisation dawning “ ahh, no, Grandad lives in Taunton and that’s the place we have just been. Heaven is in the sky”
Well of course I instantly regretted saying that!!
Only 2 more days to keep the lergy from our door. Ollie has asked for a pyjama day tomorrow, DONE! We’re starting by watching this Encanto. Well if they’re going to keep singing it I might as well learn the words!!
Love & hugs, kisses & wishes xxx
A cheeky little Twinkle update xxx 