Mother there is no other like Mother..

Instantmumoftwo - 26 Mar 17

Yes Mr T you are quite right there is no other like Mother

My Mother is currently in bed and I’m on my way as we decided to celebrate today with a bottle of wine and a few vodkas.

We went out for lunch with my brother and his wife and my gorgeous niece.

Lunches out with the kids can go one of  two ways; surprising well or bloody awful.

The worst meal out I’ve had so far is when Piglet lobbed Barry the baby across the table at Pizza Express knocking glasses flying!

People looked horrified as she proceeded to slap me round the face!

Well today I was prepared! I knew she wouldn’t eat any of the restaurants food so I precooked some pasta and took way too many snacks, distractors/bribes if you will.

I also filled their mini back packs with small toys. Those happyland characters worked a treat and I popped in some Paw Patrol toys and of course the toys of the moment the Spidermen.

The preparation paid off the kids were playing really nicely and as we sat outside in the sunshine, everything was right in the world!

So I think the calmness prompted us to have a drink.

Actually who am I kidding my Mum and I don’t need any excuse to have a drink!

But I forgot the evils of day time drinking and as we got home I really needed (wanted) to curl up on the sofa. No way was that going to happen!

The kids wanted to go outside so out we went and more so than ever when I went to sit down they yelled for something.

I then made dinner, well I say “made” dinner it was soup, but as I was starting to feel guilty that the kids had been on their best behaviour all day and I hadn’t, I thought I’d attempt to put some cream cheese in the shape of a heart in the middle of the soup. With a teaspoon and thoughts of master chef shows where they do that scoopy thing I tried my best. It didn’t work.

I then popped it down in front of them and Big Pig said “oh Mummy, tomato soup, I love you” the guilt began to increase.

I sat down and my husband joined me. 5 maybe 10 minutes later I awoke to laughter and a table that resembled a crime scene. I’d actually unknowingly fallen asleep and the Hubby had popped to the loo and in that time this had happened.

I’d hazard a guess that 46 wetwipes were used. But poor hippo I don’t think he’s going to make it, although Spider-Man looks strangely comfortable but then superheroes are used to CRIME SCENES!!

Piglet was barely recogniseable under a layer of soup, the whole thing reminded me of the scene out of Carrie!

Feeling like a failure; my husband said the magical words “I’ll sort that babes” for this I love him even more.

Im off to bed thinking of ways I can make it up to them tomorrow and then I actually thought,  they were laughing when I woke up, they’d actually had a great time!

They enjoyed what little they ate of the soup, so maybe I don’t need to make it up to them.

Maybe I didn’t do too badly, maybe my version of awful is alright!

These photos and lots of others are on my Instagram @instant_mum_of_two 

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