Rachel's Three Beautiful Things

1.Breakfast 2.Paranoia 3.Shelter

1. I can’t say that making breakfast was without spills or breakages, but I can confirm that the pancakes and coffee were very tasty and that Roman had fun.

2. My spot paranoia continues, but reliably informed by Chris that the vague pimple that you can’t really see is most definitely not the pox, and that I should stop quarantining the poor boy and go out.

3. The rain suddenly comes on, Chris, several toddlers, a preschooler and a 7 yr old pile in to the teeny tiny playhouse and wait it out in a box no larger than a meter squared. Cosy.

1.Squeeze 2.Giant’s Chair 3.On Trend

1. To my immense pleasure I manage to squeeze 3 children’s seats in the back of my car.

2. The giant chairs proved to be very very entertaining.

3. Two supermen, two Bob the Builders, Spiderman, a Disney princess and a very fetching fairy complete with wings and a scooter. Everyone was in fancy dress today, and Roman who is always on trend was sporting a Batman outfit.

1.Housework 2.Liberty & Sunshine 3.Paper Trail

1. I woke up in the mood for housework.

2. A friend looks after Roman for a couple of hours, and I walk into town in the sunshine.

3. Roman discovers the shredder bucket, the flat is now covered in paper evidence of where the boy has been.

1.Cuddles 2.Snores 3.Burger Delivery

1. Small boy with high temp equals lots of extra cuddles.

2. I find myself pinned in the rocking chair by a snoring Roman.

3. Chris comes to my rescue, making and delivering homemade burgers straight to my hand.

1.Rainbows 2.Green Tunnel 3.Forty Winks

1. The sunshine and showers weather we’re having resulted in a day of multiple stunning rainbows.

2. The tree canopy completely covered the back road, and the sun was shining through the still transparent new leaves, resulting in a vibrant green tunnel.

3. I curl up on the sofa next to Chris and accidentally have a quick forty winks.

1.Sleepy Heads 2.Smug Lunch 3.Delayed

1. As I creep out of the flat this morning, Chris and Roman are curled up in each others arms snoring.

2. Homemade soup and a jumbo cheese salad sandwich, it looked good, it tasted even better, very smug.

3. I arrive home to discover that Chris and Roman were delayed in climbing the stairs, they just couldn’t get past the slide in the garden.

1.Danish 2.Roast Dinner 3.Night Night

1. Toy Story 2 which was playing in the kiddies corner after church was stuck in Danish, very cultured.

2. Pasta boy did rather well with his roast chicken dinner, but then who can resist a Sunday Roast?

3. ‘Night Night’ said Roman, who was very keen to end stories and get on with bedtime, it didn’t have the desired effect as Chris and I were both stunned and just ahh-ed and ooh-ed with gooey parental pride.

1.Beep Beep 2.Elderberry & Echinacea 3.Hives

1. Roman runs around the sing and sign class randomly touching random parent’s noses and shouting ‘Beep Beep’. He then he insisted on kissing Jessie Cat on the mouth. *Blush*

2. Today’s attempt to bling up the foul tasting Echinacea water with homemade Elderberry cordial was a complete success.

3. Spent the evening doing spot research for my bespotted son, google images of hives and you get a very pleasing but random selection of bee hives, and hive rashes.

(Note for Grannies, he’s fine, no temp, no grumpy mood, no itching, good appetite, just some strange spots that I thought were insect bites but now thinking they’re not.)

1.Dozing 2.Swim 3.Boys Toys

1. Neither Chris or I could face getting out of bed with Roman this morning so instead he played on our bed while we dozed.

2. Complete my first 40 lengths since the day before I was induced, I was a little rusty but it felt good.

3. Chris and his friend are like excited school boys as they play with their new toys, and stickers.

1.Random 2.Mums 3.Forgiven

1. My mum, brother, Roman and I sit in the sun listening to the Kilmarnock Alzheimer’s Association sing tunes from the 60’s for European Parliament Day, they only had three songs so to break it up they also had an Italian tenor singing Nessun Dorma.

2. The flat is very quiet, and I realise that despite all her mum-isms, I kinda miss her now she’s gone home.

3. A clean sleepy boy who stares deeply into your eyes as he cuddles in for his milk, completely wipes out all the mischief of the dirty snotty boy who has spent all day exploring his boundaries.