It’s been the Easter holidays for the past two weeks and, for those who have kids, I’m sure they know what’s coming. Honestly, I really don’t know how we survive it! Where I live there’s not much to do for young kids, I certainly don’t let them out to roam the streets (my eldest girl is 6, the youngest girl is 17 months) like I’ve seen some of the parents who live local do. I don’t drive so can’t take them anywhere nice unless my other half (their dad) is off work for the day. But the weather has been so crappy, that even when he has been off we couldn’t go out anywhere anyway. There are a couple of parks local – one a good 15 min walk, one 2 minutes away. The closest one was built late last year in the middle of a field. And the stupid people who designed it didn’t put a pathway to it from the road nor between the play areas so when it rains (and it rains a lot in England, it turns into a boggy mushy horrible thing where you just don’t to take the kids for fear of sinking into the mud – not to mention how dirty the play areas get). The park further away is a lot better but not really somewhere to walk with lots of little kids and a double pram as the roads are very very busy and you need a million pairs of hands to keep control of the microbitches who do everything at top speed :roll:

Anyways, we got a couple of nice days where I managed to get them to the local park to burn off some energy and one day where a friend wasn’t doing anything so we banded together and took all the kids to the park further away (11 kids between the two of us and that’s with me leaving the 2 youngest at home!) This week, though, has been awful. Because they’ve been home for over a week, they’re now bored out of their heads and are doing nothing but fight and scream and wreck the place. When you have one child, it’s easy enough to ignore but when you have four little monsters shrieking their heads off, and two teenagers who have turned into Kevin and Perry (think Harry Enfield) then, believe me when I say, you don’t want to be me! Thankfully the kids all go back to school on Monday – I can’t wait!

To add to the stress of the kids being insane, I had to reformat my laptop on Friday (amidst the screaming horde) which took about 3 times longer than it should have. Then to top it off, today I broke my blog… and it’s taken me 2 hours to repair it. On an up note, it means I reskinned it… and while it’s not quite how I want it, it’s gone 1am and I really should go to bed!!!!

So, with that said, I bid you all adieu, sweet dreams, goodnight, good afternoon or even good morning, depending on your location on our unpredictable planet!