Well my weekend of rest didn’t quite work out how I had hoped it would… I ended up spending most of Sunday in A&E but thankfully nothing much is really wrong with me so I did get to come back home in the end (I’d been having some nasty stomach cramps which for a while the doctors thought might be appendicitis – very thankfully it wasn’t!).

After my A&E day Cara the magnificent managed to delay her trip back up to Yorkshire until Wednesday so she could spend Monday and Tuesday with Sam and give me some more time to rest. Nick also managed to find some free time to visit Sam on Tuesday as he’s been doing a bit of shift work, he may look pretty alert in this photo but he did spend a lot of his visit dozing on the sofa – awww.

Thank you so much Cara for all your help – it was very, very appreciated! When you and Nick start your own family I think I’m going to owe you lots of babysitting!

It’s been a pretty dire week for me so far, I’ve spent most of it feeling tired and ill – but because of Sam I’ve not been able to curl up into a little ball under the blankets. Why did no one tell me just how hard it is to cope with a little one when you are under the weather? Thankfully though the calvary has arrived in the shape of Cara who has come round today to help me with Sam and give me a chance to get some rest.

Cara went straight into the deep end of baby care and took charge of entertaining / changing / comforting / walking Sam while I got a few chances to have some much needed rest. Cara also made me some delicious soup which I greatly enjoyed and I’m now starting to think that it may not be too hard for me to try and cook some for myself one day. After just one day I can happily say that Cara is now a fully trained Samuel carer and is very welcome to come round and take Sam for the day whenever she should want to 🙂

I’m so very glad that it is now the weekend and with Rich around I should hopefully be able to get a little bit more rest so that I’m in better shape for looking after Sam next week.

It seems like it has been quite a while since we caught up with Thea, Marcus and little Katie so today they came round to Tea Towers to partake of a delicious roast dinner followed by a whole lot of tearing around the local playground.

The food was pretty darn good – and there was plenty of it which is always important with a roast. We also had some very nice chocolate torte for dessert which Katie enjoyed so much she went round all of us trying to get a bit of ours too! Once we had started to feel a little less stuffed we thought it a good idea to wander over to a very exciting playground that Rich and I discovered in our travels recently. Katie loved it and spent most of the time there rushing from one exciting climbing/swinging thing to another with us older kids trailing after her.

Hopefully we’ll get the rest of the photos up in the photo gallery soon as there are some really fun photos of us all reverting to acting like children.