Day 84 - Catch-up with friends

Have had a lovely morning catching up with a friend of mine and her eighteen-month old daughter who I haven’t seen for a while.  She lives about 45 minutes’ drive away so we met at a garden centre roughly halfway between where we each live.  It had a café and a soft play area which was perfect – we could sit and catch up (with Sophie happily sitting in the highchair at the table) and watch our two toddlers enjoying themselves in the soft play area.  Always lovely to spend time with friends and the girls seemed to enjoy themselves too.

Day 78 - Catching up

Hubby and I had a lovely catch-up with one of our friends from uni who we hadn’t seen for almost two years.  Jessica enjoyed getting to stay up late (and have a second dinner!), Sophie just loves having cuddles so was happy and hubby and I enjoyed reminiscing about our uni days and reliving some happy memories.  We had such a fabulous time at uni and whilst we weren’t particularly wild, there were some crazy moments and I am quite glad that it was all before the days of Facebook so there aren’t too many incriminating photos floating about online!

Day 73 - A meal with friends

Grandma came over to babysit Jessica so that hubby and I could go out for a lovely meal with a group of friends (with Sophie in tow as she is still breastfeeding).  We try and go out for a meal as a group every couple of months or so and it’s always great to be able to catch up with each other.  This time the meal was at a very nice Belgian gastropub which serves fabulous moules marinéres (which I had as a starter).  I also enjoyed some very rare steak and frites and Belgian waffles with strawberries for dessert.

Day 71 - A happy moment

Today wasn’t a happy day – it was a very sad one as we attended the funeral of our friend’s little girl and offered them our broken words of love and comfort in the midst of their grief.  We were asked to wear bright colours and invited to a celebration of Amelia’s life afterwards where there was a bouncy castle and a sweet trolley – both of which Jessica loved as did all the children attending.  It was a beautiful send-off for a beautiful little angel and we continue to keep our friends in our thoughts and prayers over the coming days.

Day 63 - Handmade with love

Have had a lovely afternoon catching up with my friend Denise at a local garden centre where Jessica enjoyed playing in the soft play area and Sophie enjoyed having lots of cuddles.  Denise is one of these wonderfully multi-talented people who is really good at crafts – she made Jessica a dolphin jigsaw for her birthday last year and when we met up today, she presented me with two beautiful ceramic plaques with ‘Jessica’ and ‘Sophie’ on for the girls’ bedroom.  It was such a lovely surprise – was so touched that she thought of doing something like that for my babies. 

Day 62 – Catching up with the Hub Café ladies

 

As it’s the Easter holidays, Hub Café isn’t on at the moment and so I invited some of the other mums (and children) over to my house for tea and cake this morning instead.  As we are enjoying some very nice weather at the moment, it was lovely to be able to get out and sit in the garden so the children could run around in the sunshine and enjoy playing with all the garden toys whilst us mums could sit and enjoy a nice cup of tea and a slice of homemade sponge cake with cream and jam (yummy!)