Surviving the Weekend

We survived a weekend with me in charge while Claire was away. Friday night was fine, Saturday morning the kids stayed with the Mogendorff’s while I rowed, then in the afternoon we went to a party at Jim and Nancy’s. Sam was fine, but Lauren was extremely startled by all the people there, and buried her head in my shoulder for 15 minutes. But by the end of the day she was running round quite happily, getting random adults to push her in the hammock. Amazingly, about 7:30 that night she came up to me and said “Want dummy go to bed”. I gave it to her, she toddled off, and that was the last I saw of her until morning.

On Sunday we went for a walk and a go on the swings and slides, including Sam’s first full-on swing (as opposed to tiny rocking back and forth). Then off to get Claire from the airport.