Weekends away

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:01 PM by lauranen

Right, it's about time I squeezed out a little update on our lives, even if there isn't many people following this blog anymore...

At the moment our weeks are a mundane mix of work and play. Having said that, there are a few things that give the dreary autumn days a bit of a perk. One of our favourite things every week is definitely the weekly coffee mornings (or the mother-toddler group, if you will) at the Sallins Parish Centre. The group runs during school term, every Monday from 10am to 12am, and we've been going there since September.

The weather here has been absolutely abysmal for the last couple of weeks, but the last two days we've seen a bit of sunshine. I don't know why I'm telling you this, but it certainly has improved my mood. Playing outside on the yard with Lukas has become a bit difficult, as he keeps running out of the estate, probably in the hope of trainspotting. We've started walking to the "nearby" playground, but since it's a bit of a trek there, it requires careful planning everytime we go, and if there's dark clouds in the horizon we're guaranteed to get pissed on somewhere along the way.

Today I felt charitable and picked up all the litter left behind by the builders - and I don't mean building waste, but sandwich wrappers, plastic bottles and other lunch hour remains. They had been annoying me for weeks, and I'm glad that it's done, even if no-one else will notice.

My mother bought Lukas a little doll buggy for his night-weaning present, and he absolutely loves the thing. He has a special little panda friend called Biibi (or Be-Be, how ever you want to transliterate the name Lukas himself has given him) whom he pushes around in the buggy like a proud parent. He also frequently changes Biibi's nappy and gives him milk and other foods. He won't go to bed without Biibi and a couple of books, and if we're going away for the weekend, he won't step out the door without knowing Biibi is coming too.

Did I say "if we're going away for the weekend"? Surely I meant "when we are going away for the weekend"! Our weekends have been so busy recently I can't even remember when we spent a weekend at home last, just the three of us. There was the birthday trip to Norn Iron & Giant's Causeway, the Bank Holiday weekend in Clare, the Christening in Limerick, then we had a visit from my brother Antti and finally last weekend we drove out to see Ronan's friend Darren, Edel and his family in Monaghan. Great fun, and we even got to go out for a dinner and a dance last weekend!

This weekend we're staying home, but I'm actually getting to go to theatre for the first time in over 2 years (I think). Nothing too fancy, we're going to see the the Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly play featuring the lovely Miss Lisa Lambe. It's nice to get out, and hopefully the show will be at least somewhat funny. After reading all the books it's hard to imagine someone portraying the character just like I've imagined him, but maybe it's possible to get over that.

There are some photos in Flickr again, have a look! And don't panic about the missing photos, our pro account just ran up and I didn't bother renewing it because I'm sure you've all seen the older photos and we don't add them that much anymore.