Hayfever

I am rather tired but cannot sleep due to a chronic case of snotty nose.  It must be hayfever and I just can't seem to stem the tide of snot -there is some serious pollen  in the air tonight and if I lay in bed I'd just drive Paul up the wall with sniffing and sneezing, so I have taken some antihistamene and will wait until it (hopefully) kicks in before heading back upstairs to try and get to sleep.  Grrrr

camping

we didn't make Sagga camp due to the potential pox (which hasn't emerged....).  but last week, given the weather reports were favourable, we decided to head to the Forest of Dean to camp as a family for the weekend.  We stayed at a lovely site, with plenty of space for Ben to run about, with great facilities.  Friday night was hard going, Becca woke regularly and YELLED.... pity our poor neighbours!  but the next night she was calm ( if still awake a lot!).  Saturday we headed to Symonds Yat and managed to persuade Ben to go on the little boat over the river, and his highlight was throwing stones in the river.They both had a really lovely time and Paul and I, whilst knackered from the lack of sleep, really enjoyed the time away too.  I think camping with babies is tough but toddlers is great.  It's hard work as you don't get any real break, but once Becca is Ben's age, i can see we will really get into the swing of things..... :-)

#t'lympics

Still loving the Olympics, and still ignoring my children at critical points of the day.  High point was watching Kath Grainger get her gold finally, and low point seeing poor Becky Adlington get bronze, although she should still be so proud of that.  Am very much loving how the country is really getting behind the games and everyone is posting on FB/twitter etc and so many of my friends are actually going.  If we'd not got the kids I would have loved to have gone, but hey ho, life is different.
In other sporting news, we got Ben his first bike today.  It's a balance bike, and after it arrived we met with Paul in the cycle shop and got him a helmet.  He looks so cute in his helmet bless him, although to be honest I think he was more interested in "fixing" the bike with his tool kit rather than riding it, but then again it does take a bit of practice, and by the time it was bath and bed time he was sitting on it a little bit.

Becca has been severely clingy today, so I am glad it's the weekend and Paul is about tomorrow.  She was very cute at times too though, bless her.

I'm awake cos my legs hurt and I can't sleep.  I keep getting aches and pains which had me worried it was arthritis but the blood tests I had didn't come back with anything, so i guess I;m just getting old :-(
In other news we won't be camping this weekend cos of a chicken pox scare.   Looks like it will be a soggy weekend anyway so maybe not the end of the world.....