I broke the rule

This is my rule, its the rule that says don't do more than one activity/thing per day and certainly don't do 3. Well today I did just that.

Me n the nippers had a lovely morning at Lucy's. We were treated to delicious pizza and even got to spend some time with Will. Ben loves a big boy and enjoyed popping into the gaming room to see what was going on.

Then we drove to Northcliffe park where a wonderful bunch of steam train enthusiasts run miniature trains which we rode on to see Santa. This fella was great, looked the part, managed to coax a bit out of Ben but his present choice was atrocious!!! Ben was given a red scary dino/dragon with batteries pre installed so he lit up and played a theme tune and scary roar. It's the kind of present you would never buy or even give to a kid you didn't like, which means your child thinks its the best thing ever. Ben held his all the way home, played with it, slept with it and woke up searching for it. I'm hoping to charity shop it after Christmas, wish me luck.

And then to round things off we called in at my neighbours who were having people round for mulled wine and minced pies. Everything in my body screamed don't go, but I wanted to go as they seem nice, plus I wanted to have a snoop at the house. As predicted it was a disaster. I turned up with a screaming child n spent a while feeding her, then dumped her as Ben decided he wanted me to play with him before doing an almighty trouser and carpet wetting wee. Quick clean up operation and we were out after 50mins, one sip of mulled wine and barely any chats with anyone. Hey hum.