Dirty Dancing

Me with painted nails?!!!!

So, Matt was away this weekend, on one of his translator jaunts.  He says its work - but really its a chance to eat and drink and catch up with work friends.  He's not fooling anyone.

Ectoplasm face pack!

Saturday Tom had football training in Burton as the school field was under water again!  It was cold and raining (what's new) I dressed up, ready for it, but Tom's coach sent me home - I wasn't going to argue!  I collected Tom at 11, delivered some cakes to the Badminton jumble sale and put Tom in the bath to warm up.

We then had lunch, went for a walk round the village and then settled down on the sofa to watch The Jungle Book.

I then took Tom over to Meadow Falls at 5pm, he was having a sleep over there and I was having the girlies over here.  Only 3 could make it in the end: Janine, Liz and Sam, but it didn't matter, we had a ball.  We watched Dirty Dancing and painted nails (yes - mine are bright red!) and wore face packs and drank.  We got through copious amounts of gin and tonic, wine and malibu.  We played the Dirty Dancing drink game and sang along, finishing with a dance at the end.  By then we were all having a ball so put on music videos via you tube and were dancing until 2.30am!

Tom and Annabel's den!

More face packs

It was the best night.  It only ended when Janine collapsed on the sofa.  She woke up after half an hour and then barffed in spectacular fashion, so much so that she needed a shower.  We had to convince her to stay over.  Actually in the end she and Liz stayed over, so I had a full house.

We were awake again at 7.30, Janine got up early to sneak home before her boys woke up and found her absent.  Liz and I got up at 9, and headed round to Meadow Falls where Dave cooked us a proper English breakfast.  Turns out that Tom and Annabel had made a den and slept in it for the night.  It was tiny so I'm not sure how they did it!  They woke up at 4am thinking it was 7am and started talking.  Dave had to go in and tell them to go back to sleep!

We then came back home, cleared up the mess - there were empty tonic cans a plenty before heading to Lancaster to pick up Matt.

We then went to Archers cafe for a hangover lunch, a quick trip to Aldi to stock up on cake ingredients and then home.  As we were all tired, we cuddled up on the sofa and watched Chicken Run before a cupboard tea and early bed.

A good weekend.

Thursday - we took Tom to the opticians as he announced over tea one day that one of his eyes is really blurry.  I sat with him in the room as he was put through his test and was surprised and shocked to find that he could only read the top line of letters on the opticians chart with one of his eyes.  Turns out he has a lazy eye and it is too late with him being 9 to do anything about it.  Glasses won't make any difference now, as his brain has reprogrammed itself to see properly with the lazy eye.  She was surprised it didn't get spotted when he was a toddler at nursery - but I guess we were moving house and we never saw the health visitor here and in Telford they were behind with visits and when we did finally get the 2 year old check at 2.5 years we were so concerned about his lack of speech, that is all we talked about we never thought to take him to an optician!

Oh and Tom got his half yearly school report.  We were very surprised because it said that he concentrates well and he got an excellent for effort for writing - he's not had either before.  He seems to have slipped with science though, but because he does that with his afternoon teacher, he only got a grade and no narrative, so not sure what is happening there.  We won't find out at parent's evening either because it is the 'other' teacher.  Hopefully next year he will have one teacher for everything and we will get a proper all round report.