first day back at work

Alice and I took a tea-time promenade and the boys stayed at home and rolled some sushi. I went back to work today and I am going to miss them all very much after a beautiful summer together all day, every day. I need to definitely make the time to hang out with Alice more - just the two of us - she needs it and I need it. And this evening was lovely - a quick 40 minutes round the block with a play-park stop off. She is a beautiful, loving wee girl and I am ever so ever so proud of her.

And - I got excited as we stopped to ooh and aahh at the beautiful Eid dress fabrics in our local shops. Having a daughter is very much different from having a son. Both amazing, both beautiful, both fill me with total joy; both very, very different.

And Alice is ever so quiet when it is just the two of us. Maybe her ever so loud big brother has something to do with her normal outrageous decibel tones....