Our weekend of fun – Mummascribbles

I don’t often write posts about our weekend – most of the time there’s nothing majorly exciting to report. Every now and then though, a weekend is so grest that it has to be documented.  This weekend was one of them.

It all started Friday night when I’d changed my mind about the other half bringing home a bottle of wine. When I’d realised that I’d spent my whole day with my head in budgets, it felt like a good decision to make and we had a lovely Friday night having a little drink, watching TV and chatting.

Saturday was the biggie. A couple of weeks back,  I put Zach’s name down for Rugby Tots. A classic had started at the local leisure centre but booked really fast so I missed out. So I popped his name on the waiting list and with so much other interest a new class was started so I got him booked on immediately. It officially starts this coming Saturday but the coach was throwing a free trial session so we went along to see if it would be money well spent.

I honestly wasn’t sure how Zach would take to it. He can be really funny with new people and places and often has a refusal to do things. He’s familiar with the leisure centre because it’s where we go swimming but otherwise I wasn’t sure how he’d be. I clearly needn’t have worried. Upon walking into the section of the sports hall that it was taking part in, seeing lots of soft rugby balls dotted around and being told to have a kick around before the session started, he was straight in!

The session then started and whilst at first he was a bit apprehensive and tried to get us to do things with him, it only took him about a minute before he was confidently joining in, running back and forth, practising running with the ball and scoring tries along with an assault course that he loved!

It was after all of that when we discovered that we may have a little Johnny Wilkinson on our hands when it was time to practice goal scoring. Our boy has quite some kick on him and he scored not once but twice! Everyone including coach was so impressed! 

That brought us to the end of the half an hour session and he begged for more. Luckily there wasn’t another class for a couple of hours so coach let him stay and play a while longer with another little lad. He’s been talking about the session ever since so I think it’s safe to say that it’s already worth every penny spent. I already can’t wait to take him on Saturday – even though it’s at 8.30am!

There was a slight incident after the rugby when he decided to go into the park outside. As I topped the parking machine with a bit more money, he fell over in the mud!

Saturday was fantastic for a whole other reason as well. It was date afternoon/night. Yep. We were off out, just the two of us, into town to see a show and have dinner. My mum for our birthdays, had booked us tickets to see Woman in Black and it just so happened to be on Halloween…just to make it extra spooky. She had also offered her babysitting services and so at 1pm she turned up with the dogs and we headed off to Covent Garden. We got up there about an hour before the show so we meandered around, popping into shops I wouldn’t normally be able to browse in and having a peek around at the restaurants to see where we’d like to eat after the show. Suddenly it was time to head to the theatre for the start of the show.

The show was brilliant. A real slow burner but the acting was just incredible and the bits that made me jump also sent shivers down my whole body immediately afterwards. The theatre is so tiny it just adds to the spookiness. I loved it!

After the show finished we went to Maxwell’s Bar and Grill for a drink and dinner. We only had to wait about half an hour for a table so had a quick champagne cocktail to pass the time!

Once we were seated we had a feast of chicken, ribs and chocolate dessert along with a lovely bottle of wine.

We had contemplated going to a bar for a boogie and another drink but we decided that we would head on back and stop off at one of the local pubs on the way home for a final drink before going home and letting my mum get herself and the dogs home to bed. It was foggy at this point so not only was it super eerie but I was worried about mum getting home safely.

We had such a wonderful time. After my recent writing about us needing some together time, this was just perfect so thanks mum!

On Sunday, I got up and went to an exercise class. Yep, after my recent ramblings on how I’m feeling a bit frumpy again, I found an Insanity class just down the road and went along. There is a reason it’s called Insanity. It was hard, really hard. And intense. But I did it and I was proud for getting up and going on a cold foggy morning. Today though, I am feeling it. There isn’t a part of my body that isn’t aching! That’s good though right?! Even though I can’t walk properly?

After that I got myself ready and we headed over to the other half’s brother so we could see our niece who is turning one this week. Zach loves seeing his cousins and whilst it is a slightly mad couple of hours with them together, he never wants to leave. But leave we had to as I needed to get home to cook the roast. And that yummy roast ended our weekend nicely as Zach then went to bed and we sat down to catch up on X-Factor/blog/play computer games!  

What a ruddy fab weekend!