Not mine I might add, but the children’s. It’s a short summer break this year – only 5½
weeks, ha ha!
And when most people might be looking forward to lazier days without
the school run, my quandary is how to work and to keep the boys entertained for so
long.
As a family we don’t take holidays during the summer as my husband is
usually snowed under with work.
He is currently working 7 days a week and next week will be working
about 15 hours a day, so he can hardly be expected to take his share of the
child care, and there’s certainly no long lazy days on the beach to look
forward to.
Thankfully as my boys love football, they go to a
football school from Monday – Thursday for 4 weeks of the holiday, and I can
cover most of my work while they are there and do the rest from home, so most
of the time is covered. I’ve decided
that Fridays will be a time when the three of us will have a day out so at
least we’ll get away from four walls. I
want us to have some fun time together as well as going on some visits which
will be of educational interest for them.
(I haven’t actually mentioned the educational to them yet – ha ha!)
We are lucky enough to live a stone’s throw from
what I consider to be one of the best zoo’s in the country. We’ve had membership there since the boys
have been little but recently we haven’t been going very often, so yesterday we
decided to make the most of our membership.
My youngest has decided that he wants to see every
animal in the zoo this summer, so we may have to do a few visits. Yesterday it was baking so we did the bottom
section of zoo, my youngest marking them off on the list as we went (do you
think he has developed my penchant for lists?) and then had lunch in the
café. The good thing is that we also get
discount on food and drinks with our membership so it’s win-win.
As ever I had to take photos of my favourite
animals.
We called it a day mid-afternoon – we were just too
hot and weary to walk any further, but we all agreed that a good day was had by
all.
Today was a day of housework and gardening and tomorrow I’ve said I’m going to get the bikes out
and make sure that they are all in working order. It’s something I may live to regret.
Oh and here is one of the animals at home, having a
considerably easier day then we had.
