New forest weekend

We visited my parents in Sway this past weekend. The boys were so excited on Friday, I had a children's party which I was hosting in the afternoon so Barry came home early.

 

On our way down we bought some chips from our local Fish and Chip shop. Hot steaming chips, oh they were so good

 

Saturday was spent visiting my sisters new house, going to their local park and popping into their pub the Fleur De Lis which is the oldest pub in the forest

 

Jasper and Grandma Lynn

 

 My dad cooked us all a BBQ on Saturday night

We went to the local car boot sale on Sunday morning, picking up some bridges and cranes for the boys brio set, a big box of Lego (Christmas present prep for Ace) and a 1976 jug for me

Sunday afternoon was spent at highcliffe beach, so beautiful

 

I hope you all had a lovely weekend too, after some very dark days we as a family are coming into the sun again

 

Take care, Natalie xx

 

today.....

 

Today, Jasper and I picked blackberries on the way home from school, he found these apples too high for us to reach

 

Took silly photos of myself while Jasper played in the stream

 Found a conker for Asa

Went looking for more blackberries

Picked every single one of our apples, 14 in all. We have 8 apples trees!  

 

~A dragon fly (huge) flew into our cottage looking for our pond, we opened the front door and off he went

~I lost my patience with the boys when they covered themselves in mud making mud pies

~We ate tinned mackeral for the first time, actually quite lovely

~I baked banana bread, blackberry and apple cake and shirt bread while the boys slept

~I felt guilty for taking business calls in the day

~Got a party booking, queue less guilt

 

Take care, Natalie x

My boy

Jasper and I have just come back from dropping Asa off at school, he looked so grown up and loved his new scooter which we had promised him

A coffee and biscuit after the school run

A message from Asa's teacher. I could not hold back the tears in the cafe wile reading this.

 

Must dash, I need to do a few jobs before we go and pick him up

 

Take care, Natalie x