Our weekend happy – A trip to the farm, footie fun and a BBQ with Grandparents! – Mummascribbles

When we were getting ready to head to bed on Friday night, we were talking about what we were going to do on Saturday because other than swimming for Zach, we had no plans. And with the boys being complete pickles at home, I knew we needed to get them out. While I was thinking about it, I remembered that we have a pretty cool farm just ten minutes from us, and so having discussed it with the other half, I booked tickets and we were set to take them there.

The boys (considering they had no idea we had any fun plans) woke up stupidly early which is typical, although it did mean that we were able to get sorted much easier than we usually would be. We were however still running late for swimming because we had some extra stuff to sort out. We dashed up to swimming and Zach had his lesson, and then the boys popped into the cafe and then into the park, before saying goodbye to their friends and going to the car so that we could make the short journey to the farm, which they were both very excited about.

We arrived a couple of minutes before it opened but we were soon inside and the boys were very happy to be there. We meandered around the animals, fed the goats and sheep, looked at the giant pig, completed some of the treasure hunt they had on, and then went to the playground area where there was due to be a bird of prey show. The boys really enjoyed that (although Oscar did go off for a nappy change), and then at the end, they both got to hold one of the smaller birds which they both loved.

We then went up to the other play area where there were little ride on tractors, a big bouncy mountain, and of course, the donut toboggan slide which we went on many, many times – every time, Zach was in absolute hysterics!

After a while there, we decided it was time for lunch. On the way, down to the cafe, we discovered there was a little show on which the boys stopped at and had a right little boogie together.

We then managed to get them to lunch where they had some pizza and we had some sarnies, and then it was straight back to it again. We wandered to the rabbits and horses, reindeer and llamas; and then they had another play on the bouncy mountain and tractors before we went off in search of our last treasure piece, a quick stop in the dino dig playground, before going over to where the tractor rides were starting to take people up to the dairy farm.

We sadly missed the first train as it was full up, but were at the front of the queue for the second one. While we were waiting, the other half took the boys to the nearby bird hide while I waited in line, and as they came back, the tractor was on its way too (they had seen it from the hide).

We boarded the tractor and went up to the dairy farm where the boys were fascinated by all the cows being milked! Zach has learnt a lot about it at school and he and his brother use the term ‘udders’ in most sentences. So to actually see the udders in full use was mindblowing!

Once we had seen enough, we went back out and caught the tractor back, and we decided that it was time to head home. We went in and exchanged their treasure hunt finds for their medals, and then we stopped at the make your own milk machines by the car park. We selected the bottle, selected the size, and got a nice pint of fresh whole milk from the very cows we had seen!

We then got in the car, Oscar of course fell asleep within seconds, and we drove home – stopping off at Homebase to grab some charcoal.

Once home, the other half needed to pop to the shops and Zach was adamant that he wanted to go too – even though he had been walking around for hours. It caused chaos with Oscar, who wanted to go but could barely move through tiredness, so we managed to delay slightly and they snuck out without him realising. He did realise in the end, and had a bit of a meltdown – but we survived it.

They arrived back, chaos ensued with tired arguments, demands and fights, and then dinner was cooked, eaten, they were plonked in the shower, and then they finally went to bed and were both fast asleep by 7.30pm.

I had some client work to do for my VA biz, so I got on with that all evening once I had made a cuppa, had a nice Magnum a little bit later, along with Jurassic World on in the background!

Sunday 4th August

The boys were up stupidly early again but the other half got up with them as I’d been up a few times in the night. It wasn’t long before I was up though and once I’d had tea and brekkie, I got ready. Oscar had a special football class which also had entertainment at for siblings so Zach was coming too.

When we arrived, they were super excited to see a bouncy castle and a couple of football aiming games. We went to Oscar’s class which was his first time on astroturf, and then when he was happily playing, Zach and I snuck off to the entertainment area where he had a play and a bounce. We also bumped into one of his old nursery friends which was lovely!

When Oscar had finished, he had a go on the bouncy castle and football game and then we left for home as Nanny and Grandad were due round. They weren’t far behind us so the other half lit the BBQ and cooked a lovely feast for us all. We did a lot of chatting in the garden over some wine and then it got a bit hot so we went inside for a while, did more chatting, Zach did some wordsearching with Nanny, and we drank more wine and ate chocolate cake!

After a while, Nanny and Grandad left for home and we were left with two tired boys! We survived it out until bedtime with a quick game of Bunny Jump, the other half popped up a painting that I have had since my birthday in October, and then it was time to get them showered and to sleep, which was a battle but they were asleep by 7.15pm! I then spent the evening working while the other half played computer games!

We had a lovely weekend of fun times 🙂