Mummascribbles – How our weekends have changed! – Mummascribbles

A few weeks back, I wrote this post about us finally ordering our first online shop. It had taken me ages to convince the other half that it’s really what we needed to get our weekends back and he finally agreed. And wow, our weekends have changed for the better! No longer do we spend our precious Saturday in Tesco’s, getting back home for a late lunch and running out of day before we could possibly do something fun before dinner. Nope, that is no longer us.

Now, we go out on adventures to the local country park which yesterday, on the most beautiful springlike day was just wonderful.

We fed the ducks (and Zach who always munches some of the bread)…

We got so warm, we all took our coats off and basked in the sunshine and the stunning views…

We explored in the wooded parts…

And then we watched a man bring his boat through the lock and under the bridge at the canal…

There was even time for a bit of daddy squishing and a family photo (Zach’s face is showing that he wasn’t too happy about the barking dogs that nice lady who took the photo had!

And then it was time to take Zach to the hairdressers for another traumatic cut! He absolutely hates having his haircut but it had got too out of control so had no choice! Despite the tears throughout, he was thoroughly pleased with his fresh new look!

Once home, we spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden, of which I have no photos as I was too busy tidying the beds, clearing the small amount of weeds and clearing the massive load of leaves that had fallen from the trees! The other half was busy sweeping even more leaves and mowing the lawn while Zach played with his sand & water tray and running round trying to ‘help’ us and stealing my fork every time I needed it!

Following this we had a very yummy home cooked (by me!) shepherds pie of which Zach ate only the potato and veg because he sometimes decides he doesn’t like the feeling of mince in his mouth!

And today?

Today we had my sister and her family round for lunch. We ate pasta, salad, cheese, pork pies, French stick – a real ploughmans, followed by yummy chocolate cake! Lots of tea, a few beers, and the cousins having fun playing together and winding each other up was a perfect time spent!

This afternoon has seen us absolutely exhausted. The other half almost dozed off on the sofa a while ago and we’ve struggled to get dinner down a very exhausted boy who obviously scrapped a nap today! He’s sitting on the sofa next to me, eating a yogurt and watching in the night garden before we take him up to bed and force ourselves to eat some dinner – good old oven food tonight which is lucky as it requires no effort at all.

And that is how our weekend is so different nowadays. We have two full days of fun together rather than one day for boring stuff and one for country walks, family and friends!

What fun stuff have you done on this glorious weekend?!