Summer holidays

Well, here we are, about half way through the Summer holidays and already I'm counting down the days until the the little man returns to nursery!

Now I look back fondly upon my summer holidays, playing with my mates up the woods or around the estate where they lived, was better than mine as it had lots of back alleys and garage blocks which were for water fights and the like. We generally didn't get up to much mischief, except the summer after the school trip to France. Well, school kids + France = banggers!

We blew up quite a few milk bottles that summer, along with a few other items no doubt. I can remember further back to when my sister and I use to attend "action holidays", at least I think that's what it used to be called, where we would spend the week participating in various activities while our parents were at work. I've fond memories of these days as well, from several years, from my first solo motorbike ride, which told me I don't like motorbikes, through to realizing I was actually pretty good at target sports, with shooting air rifles and artery.

I have a few years to wait until my kids are teenagers and capable of looking after themselves for more than a few minutes at a time and while I don't wish the time away, right now it sounds good! I can't complain to much as there are plenty of things to do, from the various kids clubs and activities on at the leisure centre to bambinos and all the various museums and the soft play, and when I say soft play I mean it as there is only one and its not very big! But that's another moan. I'm also lucky as one of the toddler groups runs through the summer, so that's 2 mornings a week taken care of! Having a park opposite the house is also useful, even though it means I'm getting no house work done!

But even with all these activities and such, there are still timed when there is nothing to do and with the unpredictable weather up here, no where to go. Its days like those that I find really hard, after all there is only so much Youtube you can watch and only so many times the DVD of "Little Red Tractor" can be repeated! The bairns are energetic to say the least, and I seem to spend half my time breaking up fights or dealing with the consequences of said fights! Why is it that they always want to play with the same toy when they have enough toys between them to cover the floor, quite literally as the other day I couldn't actually get from one side of the room to the other!

Little Red Tractor

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, school holidays, why do they seem like they were just designed for teachers?