Baking, School And Gifts Our Weekly Photos – Week 34

I really don’t know where this week has gone and I’ve hardly posted or taken a photo since last week’s weekly photos post. There are a few things going on behind the scenes which have kept us occupied, but I think the lack of photos has been down to the horrid weather we have been having. How has the weather been where you live? Here it’s been rain, rain, rain and more rain. Plus it’s been really cold. Dull, grey days, don’t make for the pretty skies I like to take photos of.

Last weekend the boys went ice-skating with their friends on a Friday night. It was the first time Tyler has done this, but he is now in his last year of primary, albeit one of the youngest in his class. He had great fun at the disco, although would like ice-skating lessons. As a parent you are always worried about them, but it’s a public place and you are dropping them off and picking them up, so it’s not as bad. For now anyway. It makes for quite a late night as it doesn’t finish until 10. Thankfully, Tyler’s football was called off, although sad it was due to the weather when, let’s face it, it’s still summer. The grass parks were waterlogged.  We had a lazy Saturday morning and went out for some bike shopping to have a look at what size would fit Aria. She is always out on her bike and it’s starting to break. Plus, she has grown so much recently. We didn’t find any she liked, but have a better idea of size. Aria has really missed going out to play with the weather being so rubbish. She plays outside with her friends from the street all the time, but it has just been too wet, even for the Queen of splashing in puddles herself. She doesn’t mind the rain, but it’s been torrential. So, she had a wee friend into play for a bit. Robert and I got caught up on Blacklist together on Saturday night. It was good to sit down for a bit together.

Sunday, Lucas football match was still on as it was on astroturf. Aria, Tyler and I went along to cheer the team on. There were quite a few injuries on during the match and the score was not a good one, but they played their best and Lucas always has a smile. Robert, not so much. Tyler went to his first elite centre training session and loved it while Aria and I went to gymnastics. I obviously didn’t do any gymnastics, but I did show her my shoulder stand. That’s about as far as I’m going. She has a gymnastics mat in the living room and she loves it. She and Tyler are forever trying to do backflips, walk overs, etc.

Monday morning and it was back to work and school. A long day on Monday and I was glad to get to the end of the day. Lucas did two lots of football training and had been at the gym doing running before school. You can imagine how tired he come the end of the day.

I’ve not gotten much writing done this week, I have done some editing and feel it’s getting somewhere. I have another month of editing course again in September, so that will allow for another chunk to be critiqued. I know it seems like I have been doing it forever, but my spare time is limited. Plus, it is all going in the right direction.

Tuesday and I was working school hours so I could drop the little two off at school, head to work, do work, leave and pick up the little two. You can see she is ready to go with her curly hair and a pretty unicorn jacket above. I really wish they made these jackets for adults. She sometimes likes to get her hair plaited when wet so it goes curly the next day. It suits her to have a bit of bounce. Off to school, she went. Then deal with Aria and the drama of a water bottle, yes, there were many tears. It was resolved with the purchase of a new one, lots of smiles and then we picked up Lucas from school before heading home for dinner and homework before I took Lucas and Aria to table tennis. I got some editing done for half an hour while Aria learned the table tennis skills. She loves it and they are so good with her too. Lucas is doing really well and I said in on the last 3/4 of an hour to watch them.

One of the things I love about blogging and twitter has been the wonderful friends I have made both online and in real life. Since I’ve been writing, I have met so many lovely fellow aspiring authors too. It is a supportive community and there are many organisations I am a member of and writing group to meet in real life too. One of them being the lovely Emma who sent me the gorgeous notebook and mug to cheer me up after a bit of a difficult time. Aren’t they gorgeous? I actually cried when I received them. It was so thoughtful and such a nice surprise. Thank you, Emma. One day, both our books will be on that classics mug.

Another long day on Wednesday and I wasn’t feeling very well. I’ve got some pain under my arms, stomach and just not feeling great. I am thinking it’s my kidney’s playing up as they do with my kidney disease but fingers crossed it’s just a wee bug. I had an early night on Wednesday evening after reading Aria many bedtime stories.

Thursday was a busy one at work. It was a bit of a whirlwind day. Another pouring, wet and grey day. I caught up with my Mum and her partner for a bit when I got home from work before making some cakes in the picture above. You can’t beat a wee fairy cake. Football training was cancelled due to the gale-force winds and horizontal rain.  The boys decided to have it in the living room, nope I was not happy at that.

Friday is here and we are expecting a heatwave. It is dry and that is all I am going for. I hope to see some nice skies or maybe a wee sunset over the weekend. We have a few things planned and two football matches. What are your plans for the weekend? Here’s hoping we all get some sunshine to make us all feel a little bit brighter.

Raisie Bay