Getting outside.

On Sunday we met up with friends at Chatsworth.  There were three families, with six children (three boys, O, N & A and three girls, K, M & E) ranging from K, at 9.5 to nearly 5 year old A.  We started off in the very good adventure playground, where the children got reacquainted and, in the case of E in particular and M to a lesser extent, rather muddy.  After lunch, the occasional light showery flurries were threatening to get worse, so we went into the house, where the children looked for the Easter eggs, which were hidden around the place.  We didn't exactly linger in the house and pretty soon we had headed out into the very extensive garden.  More boisterous fun was had and the mums and kids all eventually (it really did take rather a long time!) found our way to the middle of the maze, which the dads lounged in deck chairs and chatted (and in A's case fell asleep!).

This morning, as well as some tidying, so I could do some hoovering, I continued reading Anne of Green Gables.  It's not going to be long before we will be watching my dvd as we're probably about 2/3 of the way through already!  K & M both also wrote a couple of thank you's for Easter eggs to send to their Great Auntie A and Nana and Little Grandad, along with one for our neighbours across the road, an elderly couple who always give them something at Easter and Christmas.  We stopped and had a chat when we delivered them on our way out.

This afternoon we finally did what M's been asking to do and complaining that we haven't done for ages, that is go to the park!  They took their skipping ropes, as well as playing in the playground and around the park.  I had a nice chat with a mum who used to come regularly to LLL meetings, who lives just down the road.  K & M ended up playing football with her two boys, who are a bit younger than them. 

We popped to the library before coming home for a rather rushed tea to make it to Brownies.  As it was the first meeting of a new term, which means a reshuffle of sixes as the older girls have moved on, K has now become a sixer.