Today was a productive day:

• Sam and Mummy had a lay in
• Daddy went to the skate park
• Daddy, Daisy and Sam went to church
• Mummy made cookies, chocolate dipped marshmellows and savory food for the freezer
• Mummy made six pink chair sashes (for Teacups & Tiaras)
• Mummy finished off making Daisy's party bags
• Had lunch together
• Did some drawing
• Played/relaxed in the garden
• Washed Daddy's car
• Washed Mummy's car
• Made a raised vegetable plot in the back garden
• Planted our veg
• Had a BBQ
• Nanny Maureen came for over for BBQ
• Watched a film

Oh hoy ship mates...

It was a very exciting Saturday in the Parker household for Daisy as it was Judah's pirate's birthday party. Daisy hasnt seen Judah in the Easter Hol's so was very excited to be going. I didnt think Sam was invited so when Sam was asking to come I said it was a big boys party to which he replied 'but I am a big boy mum' it was hard leaving the little fella but with an offer of going to the park with Daddy he was happy. As soon as I arrived at the party they asked where Sam was!! So I called Daddy to tell him to bring Sam and boy was he pleased (Sam not Daddy) it is about the 4th birthday party (other than his and Daisy's) that he has been too. He loved the entertainer and thought it was great fun sitting at the table for lunch with all the older children in fact I think he had a better time than Daisy.

We hadnt planned on staying at the party but we ended up hanging out with Judah and his family and then as we hadnt done any of the errands we planned we spent the rest of the afternoon chilling at home, although Daisy, Sam and Daddy did escape to the park on their bikes/scooters for an hour or so.

The little people were shattered so they were fast asleep by 7pm, us adults finished off the day with a take away and a relaxing evening.

Our little lady as a pirate

Steam and the sea!

To celebrate the glorious sunshine we are having at the moment we decided to head to Eastbourne to use the entrance ticket we won in a raffle last year. It was to the Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway, we had never been before so didnt know what to expect. It is a lovely little place with a railway track going round a lake, with a nature walk and a couple of parks for the children to play in. The lovely thing about it is they havent tried to cram in loads of attractions and it is not commercialised with Thomas train branding or any other branding. They also have some other miniature railways to look at and little train tables set up for the little people to play on. It is lovely and clean and run by a family who actually take the money on the door and work the trains. I would defiently recommend a visit. www.emsr.co.uk

The only downside for the Parker's was Sam being the train spotter he is wanted to go on the train all the time and Daisy not being a train spotter wanted to play in the park, with only me with them we had to sit down and work out a plan (train, nature walk, train, park 1, train, picnic lunch, train, park 2, train, etc, etc). Thankfully everyone was kept happy and although there were tears (as he wanted to go back on the train) from Sam when we left he did manage seven rides on the train!

We left the railway and headed to Eastbourne harbour, it was such a warm day we walked round the boats on to the beach for some time spent pebble throwing. They also have a shopping complex there and I managed to get the little people some great bits of clothing and shoes for the summer. We finished off at the marina for ice cream so everyone was happy.

On the way back home we stopped off at Paradise Park so I could spend a voucher I got for my birthday last year. We stocked up on some seeds and seedlings for our veg patch that we are going to create this weekend (hopefully). We will keep you posted on how the Parker crops grow!

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

It's great not having to be anywhere or do anything (actually the bit about doing anything isnt true as there is always washing and cooking) but it is nice not to have to be up and out every morning for the school run.

Tuesday we chilled.

Wednesday Daisy had art club and Sam and I went swimming and ran some errands before it was time to pick the little lady up. I have posted a pic belo of her amazing creation at art club.

Thursday we spent at home and I spring cleaned the kitchen boy did it need it and then we cleaned up the garden and playhouse. The weather was being so kind we even managed to get the sprinkler out for the little people to run through.

Supermarket delivery...

The little people were keen to help the supermarket delivery into the kitchen. The interrogation by a 3yr old and a 5yr old then started on the delivery driver:

Sam: "Excuse me man, did you bring sausages"

Driver: "I did if your mum ordered them" (I hadnt)

Whilst Sam is searching in the crates, Daisy asks the driver: "So you drive around all day in your van delivering food?"

Driver: "Yes"

Sam: "Man, no sausages can you please get some from your van"

Daisy: "Don't you get bored doing that all day"

Driver: "No, I really love my job"

Daisy: "Oh"

Driver starts to leave the house.

Sam: "Where are my sausages"

I think the driver was pleased to leave our house.

Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot - was it ever going to end?

We had a great start to the day with a lay in, then we hung out at home before meeting Aunty Jo, Uncle Murphy, Cala, Andy, Jay, Kelly and Reggie the dog at 11am for our Easter walk on the Sussex Downs to the Chattery and then on to the Jack and Jill pub for lunch. We were all well equipped for the mud with our wellies, thankfully the weather surprised with sunshine all day but there was still lots of mud to be found.

We had a lovely walk to the Chattery and had a quick stop for an egg hunt (you can never have enough egg hunts over Easter), it was then on to the windmills and Gill was open today so we all got to climb the windmill to the very top which was very exciting if not a little steep at times.

After the windmill we headed to the pub for lunch after a long and I mean long wait (even though we had booked our table) we received our food which was disppointing and they got the orders wrong which was terrible for the money they charged, we all left not happy customers (well we still had a good time but the food/service was a let down), I would not recommend it anymore.

We had planned to get the bus back but unfortunately when Andy checked the time table we found that there were no buses running today... so not funny. So we agreed that we would not go the way we came as it was too hilly but try the bridalpath along the A23. Gees I wish we had gone the way we came.... first we had a hairy 15mins of walking along a road with no pavement, then we found a path that lead to a locked gate, then finally we found a path to the services where we stopped off for some much needed ice cream, we then had to decide our route and after some investigating we decided to go up the A23 towards London, cross over the foot bridge, along the bridalpath towards Brighton, over the railway bridge, then back over the footbridge and the final path back to the cars. I must say our little people were fantastic, they must have walked at least 8 miles and we only had requests for a carry in the last half hour of the walk (we left at 11am and got back at 5.20pm).

Afterwards we popped in to Aunty Jo's for a much needed cup of tea and nibble of chocolate.

Unfortunately no pictures as no one had a camera - can you believe it!

Happy Easter

Today started with the little people and Daddy going off to church. We then drove up to London to spend the day with our family at Uncle David's and Uncle Dawn's. It was a lovely afternoon, all the family were there including cousin Jay, there was lots of banter about the marathon that Carl, Cala, Jay and I are taking part in exactly two weeks - yiks!

Aunty Jo wore Aunty Debbie's fantastic Easter bonnet to dish out the eggs to everyone. My little people left with loads of eggs and some lovely clothes so a big THANK YOU to everyone and to Aunty Dawn for a lovely lunch.