Summer 2012 (part 2) The Last Week

I know, I know  we are over half way through September (how did that happen!) and you are probably well over reading about everyone's Summer by now but I still haven’t managed to catch up with myself lol.


We had such an eventful final week of the school hols that it needed a separate blog post.


The Little Fella turned Five. We went bowling with the Cousins and a couple of Friends followed by a little Tea Party in our (newly tidied) garden. This years cake request was for Lightning McQueen. Unfortunately my cake decorating skills don’t stretch to making racing cars so we settled for this.





Buttercream frosting with crushed Oreo type cookies for the road, golden sugar for the sandy desert, fondant icing cactus and some little fudge and honeycomb ice-cream sprinkles for the small rocks/stones. Finished with some well-scrubbed toys.




For all previous Birthdays, I have bought Birthday T’shirts.  This year I decided to make my own. I cut a number 5 from Interfacing and then simply sewed scraps of boyish fabrics using the stich & flip method. Ironed on and then raw-edge appliqued into the shirt.


Next up was our annual family pilgrimage to Broadstairs in Kent. It is my favourite place in the world!  My Mum came here for day trips and holidays with her Grandparents as a child, my brother and I did the same when we were little and and now it is the turn of my children. That is FIVE generations of my family who have enjoyed this little seaside resort. And during all that time, very little has changed.





Finally there was our trip to the Paralympics. 

We had a fantastic morning watching the Athletics. We kept silent for the blind long jumpers that needed to hear their guides, watched blind runners running alongside their guides, hand- cycling, Saw Josie Pearson win us a Gold Medal for discus, but the best part of the day was watching an amazing javelin final, where all the competitors beat their PB and we saw the world record broken at least 6 times by Iran and China followed by crazy somersault celebrations from many of the competitors.

We then spent a very hot afternoon watching live bands in the Olympic Village. It was truly a once in a lifetime event, and I am so pleased that we had the opportunity to be there.



Then on to this week,


The Little Man started in Reception (full time) and my Little Fella started Nursery (part time). It was a far bigger event for me than for them. 

Both boys have been very excited for weeks, it was lovely to see how excited and happy they were when dropped off to their new classrooms, but at the same time I felt a little sad at saying goodbye to their baby days.


Now I have some spare time in the mornings whilst the The Little Fella is at Nursery School, I wonder if I will manage to get those curtains finished anytime soon!