It’s been another busy and important week on our road to making a better life for our little family. This week we had a joint interview at one of the restaurant/hotels in the town and have officially got ourselves jobs together. It’s quite a daunting prospect, going back to work for me and Henry having a massive change into a new industry but we are also both quite excited for a new challenge. We won’t be working together so one of us will be able to look after Polly while the other is out earning the pennies. It’ll be great for Henry to finally be able to get some one on one time with Polly after I’ve been such a greedy cow the past 15 months of barely leaving her side. Of course though ‘Mum Guilt’ is already kicking in asking if she’s ready, if I’m ready more like. The truth is, I’m pretty sure she is ready, she’s been ready for a while and it’s very different leaving her with a stranger and leaving her with her Daddy, but of course I’m still expecting to find myself bawling my eyes out at some stage over the next 2 weeks before we properly take the plunge. I need to stop being dramatic about it as many of my mummy friends had to start leaving their little ones months ago and they survived (maybe after a few tears) but still they are OK and so are their little ones. So that’s what’s keeping me focussed on realising this is the right decision and Polly will be totally fine. Henry might just be in for the shock of his life!
My brother is down visiting this week until we all trek up to the Lake District for a big family holiday at the weekend. It’s so nice for him to spend so much time with Polly as he spent most of her first year gallivanting around South America. They have such a great bond and you can guarantee when I come back downstairs from having shock horror an uninterrupted shower (or let’s be honest from being able to clean the toilet properly for the first time in a month) I will find Polly in some sort or a fort or den created by the furniture laughing her head off while they have a ball fight (not dangerous balls! the balls from her ball pit!). I love seeing the bond she has with my sister and her husband too as her face lights up when she sees anyone of them. This might also be down to the fact that Georgia usually comes in force with chocolate, whipped cream or a new toy- I’m proud of how quickly she’s learnt to get to my child’s heart!
Other than a new job and an extra person sleeping on our living room floor it’s been a fairly standard week in our mad house. We had a playdate yesterday where Polly and 2 of her little friends had a ball playing with every toy they could get their hands on while the cat looked on in horror that I had allowed more little monsters into his house. To be fair the other 2 were more intrigued by him instead of wanting to pull his ears off. I’d call it a successful playdate as we the adults all managed to have a warm cup of something and eat a few biscuits even if we did each have a couple of toddlers hanging off our arms trying to ‘share’ said biscuits.
We also had great fun last Friday when the Red Arrows came to town. Polly had a blast beforehand playing in the sea- well running at the sea pointing then running back up the beach again then turning and looking surprised at the sight of the sea so then running back at it again. We then had a fish finger picnic in Georgia and Gyan’s flat before she went back to work (yup another great mum moment there, I made my toddler a home made version of fish and chips but I substituted the chips for a banana in an attempt to make it more healthy).  We bumped into one of our lovely friends, Soph and Polly loved watching the planes, although she seemed to get separation anxiety from them and cried every time they flew out of sight to re group.​

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Well I need to get a move on now as we’ve got singing at the library to get ready for, for anyone unsure as to what that entails, it’s basically a group of adults singing nursery rhymes while the toddlers run riot pulling books off the shelves and bashing each other on the heads with tambourines. It’s actually a lot of fun, the only downside is you will have one song stuck in your head for the next 4 days and you can guarantee it’s the one you can’t remember the words to- Google to the rescue!