Busy busy week

This week was mega busy.  Tom had sports day on Monday afternoon.  As the kids get older, they get more races, this year he got to do a relay race.  Normally when he races he is up against Finn and Lucas.  He knows he doesn't have a chance against them, so he doesn't really try.  This time he found himself running against Caitlin - he knew he could beat her.  Suddenly there was a glint in his eye, he had quite a bit of space to make up and he was determined.  Wow, suddenly he became a proper runner (so much so that a mum came up to me afterwards to tell me that Tom has a natural running posture)  So he can do it - he just needs not to be up against Lucas and Finn!!!

Concentrating...

On Wednesday he had a cricket match at Burneside - once again they did better.  Charlie got loads of boundaries, Luca got quite a few wickets and Tom managed his first boundary.  He came off the pitch upset though because he got out a couple of times and didn't get any wickets - he takes his cricket very seriously bless him.  Took us ages to convince him he had done well - better even than he had done before.  

Working hard

Thursday was the Summer Fair at school, so that was another afternoon gone.  We did well though, over £1,000 and it was manic.  The PTA haven't been very good at getting volunteers recently meaning that we were stretched to maximum and had to shut some stalls down in order to help those who were hammered.

How do we get more helpers?  It's a conundrum - people turn up expecting it to just happen, but very few are willing to help and with each year the numbers of helpers goes down.    I had to rope Matt in this year.  He got stuck with hot drinks and the urn that refused to work off any extension and a huge queue of people wanting hot drinks.  I was at the other end of the scale doing ice creams - trying to keep them as cold as possible in the heat - got to the stage where I was just pouring them into cones!  It was a very busy and exhausting afternoon (not forgotting the tongue lashing I got from the school cook for putting ice-cream in a freezer!).

Friday I actually got to work for the whole day - it was a busy cake week as well (of course)

Flying doggie

Whale Shark and diver

We were supposed to go to Manchester for the weekend, to visit the Komorowskis but Karen's mother got admitted to hospital on the Friday and sadly passed away on Saturday.  We stayed at home and went to the kite festival in Morecambe instead.  Then Matt headed over to Manchester (he was off to Japan) whilst Tom and I headed home. 

Tom and I had a quiet Sunday - we went swimming in the morning, but apart from that didn't do too much - we both needed a rest.