Single Parent Weekend

Dh is off running one of our events in york www.ascendancylrp.co.uk so someone had to stay here and run the shop and look after the kids, oh what joyous fun!

The evening went well enough, the kids having only seen dh in the morning, so his presence wasn't missed too much. This morning however was entirely different. Dd2 woke me at 5am (having somehow crawled into bed with me at an earlier time? I don't know I was asleep, ahem...) with a pitiful wail of 'daddy, daddy, daddy' which carried on whilst she investigated her side of our double bed, the en-suite, the hall, her bedroom, dd2's bedroom (waking her up in the process) and the bathroom and ss's room. She ended back up resentfully at my side of the bed, still yelling daddy, a whole half hour later, during which dd2 and I had been saying from our respective beds, 'Daddys in York'. sigh, eventually after dd2 joined us in the bed, she got the idea that he wasn't coming back in a hurry......

Fast forward to 6.15 dd2 snoring again, whilst dd1 is getting herself washed and dressed (unheard of any other day!) 8.30am see's me depositing the kids at Meridians for the day, who very thoughtfully fed me pancakes on my way past too! (thank you!)
I then made my way into work, for a whole day in the shop www.chimeraccg.co.uk by myself, which sees very odd these days, having gotten used to dh being there now!
Picked the little dahlings up at 5.30, Thankfully they'd behaved all day, mainly anway (phew, Meridian may well babysit again sometime!) Meridians dh kindly gave us a lift home. I then wrestled dd2 into bed (after half hour of cuddles and tv) and spent a further half hour putting her back into bed, till she got the message and fell asleep (22mth olds eh!) dd1 and I then watched Primeval, before I put her to bed, cooked myself some pasta and finally stopped doing things to goggle at Timewatch on the TV.

Same again tomorrow! this time with a change of babysitter, Grandma's turn!

Our new venture......

So much for my pledges to post frequently.....life is a bit hectic to say the least!
I'm hoping that its safe to say on here that we should be opening a comic, collectibles and games shop in the very near future, its still not 100% as waiting on the bank manager to agree funding, which he should do by tomorrow am....so am sat her nervously waiting to find out if we're all systems go or not.....

I have spent the last week and a bit running about getting everything sorted to bring us to this point, as soon as we have a go, go, go, green light from the bank (whose provision for dealing with things when one of their managers goes off sick for a week is crap, they will be hearing from us re this...) the solicitors will kick into action, and we have 4 weeks to shop fit and stock our new project. The adrenaline is pumping, I'm so hoping that it all goes smoothly and we can get up and running virtually straight away in Oct, in time for Halloween and Xmas!!

So why do I have time to write on here? Meridian has kindly lent me her computer, as I'm down at hers babysitting her ds! at last time to catch up on a few bits n bobs, actually I should be looking up magazine distributors locally, but thought I'd pop on here 1st! lol.....

I've been a rubbish mate to lots of people recently, as I've had my head down doing all of this, so many people I need to catch up with, that I haven't over summer, so sorry guys if your reading this, you know who you are, I will aim to see you all before Xmas, honest!! You can all come to the grand shop opening, if you're still speaking to me ;-)