Royal Wedding

Well I thought I had a busy day today with 2 little boys- swimming lessons, entertaining them, driving them here, there and everywhere, and just on the go all day. However, after just watching the Royal Wedding on TV, I can't even begin to imagine what organisation must have been involved. It makes my day with 2 small boys seem like a walk in the park.

It was another day in the life of the 2 boys and I with every single waking moment filled with noise and destruction. Bailey deliberately rides his bikes full steam into anything larger than himself and says "crash, bash" as he does so. Brandon turns up his volume switch and just talks. They both put buckets on their heads and crash into each other, or they replace the buckets with large tubs and crash into each other. They both find it hysterical and then wrestle each other or they run after each other, or Brandon jumps into his bed, pulls his quilt over himself and then Bailey jumps on top of him. Again it's all done at full volume and at full throttle. At this point in the evening, daddy and I shake our heads and wonder how in the world we are now going to get them to bed.

This morning after the 2 boys and I had arrived home from their somewhat successfull swimming lessons, I ducked into the bathroom to very briefly put on some more lipstick before we headed out again. When I heard what sounded like foil being unwrapped, I walked into the kitchen and found Bailey sitting on the floor in front of the wide open pantry doors, a chair conveniently placed in the pantry, foil everywhere and a huge block of chocolate in his hands and mouth. Cheeky, cheeky little boy. He has such a sweet tooth. Once Brandon realised that Bailey had the biggest block of chocolate he'd ever seen in his possession, he very swiftly found a way to obtain half of it from Bailey. Now I had 2 boys shovelling chocolate in their mouths faster than I could reprimand them and reclaim it. Then Bailey coughed all over the remaining chocolate before handing it back to me. Thoughtful of him.

Now with their tummies both full of chocolate and apparently no room for any decent food, we ducked into the shops so that I could get lots of things for my work, some essential food, and a few other chores done that really had to get done. It might have been optimistically about 2 minutes into our shopping adventures when I think the copious amounts of recently consumed chocolate hit their brains. Needless to say that I very hurriedly revised my long to do list to a "OMG! Let's get out of here as quick as possible before I have a nervous break down bare essential" to do list. Even that seemed to take forever to accomplish. By the time the 2 boys and I arrived home, Bailey was asleep, Brandon needed to be asleep and I wished I was asleep!

Later that afternoon I took the 2 boys down to the video shop to return a DVD and to hire some more. I introduced the boys to the DVD shop yesterday because I had a spare $5.00 in my pocket and they always enjoy something new.They were beside themselves with excitement both yesterday and today. We then ventured over to the local little supermarket where you have to mortgage your house almost to buy a loaf of bread, but it's convenient. We bought very expensive, yet very dodgy sticky tape as we needed to wrap some presents for a little friend of Bailey and Brandon's who's party the 2 boys are going to tomorrow.

Presents wrapped, daddy home so I ducked back out to the shops very briefly on my own to buy a nice, cheap little top so that I could feel pretty and girly for my attendance at the party tomorrow. Most of my clothes have just never recovered from being covered in mud, thanks to my 2 little boys. But then I always have a fantastic time with the kids in the mud so it's a pay off.

So I'm thankful that I didn't get married today. I remember the organising, the logistics, the politics, the money, even though it was a great night. Hopefully William and Kate will have a long and happy life together. Congratulations.