I had the most lovely day on Sunday, we had a full house with ellie (13) my eldest, jack (9), Amelia (nearly 5 months) and my step daughter Aime (7 and a half, don’t forget the half !) all at home.
It started off well with me making a giant batch of American pancakes for everyone, I have’nt made them before and they came out brilliantly … all big and fluffy and delicious 
I used a wooping six eggs and 8 onces of flour, so we all had about 6 each! Even Aime, who has to be pursuaded to eat most things had 4! And with the lovely Jonathan Ross playing Blonde on the radio and the sun shining it was a good morning…
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After!
In the afternoon we all headed out to the woods, I got a chance to test out my new mai tai easy sling, I was dubious at first as the straps seemed to be huge and go on forever, but once I’d wraped myself in it (a bit like a mummy, excuse the pun!) and placed Milly inside we were away!
She loved it and went to sleep almost instantly, so I would recomend it just for that… but it also feels really comfy and looks pretty good too, so a winner all round really…
We all came home and the kid’s decided to write songs, Jack wrote a slightly rude song about big bottoms (not mine, he says and Aime wrote about love and freinds, very typical! Just before she had to leave, I helped Aime paint her own plate. She wanted to copy the polka dot flower plate I was firing. She made a pretty good job of it I have to say, I will have to watch out for my job in few years time! She told my she’d like to be a painter who paints by the sea…. how lovely does that sound ; ) I really hope she does it some day, life is to short not to do the things you love….
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