I went on a little holiday to Dorset with my mum (aka Gma) and my little lady last week. We stayed in a beautiful chocolate box village in the heart of Dorset. Unfortunately there was no wifi, no Internet connection, no mobile signal - nada, nothing!! I'd like to say it was quite pleasant to be untouched by the recent obsession with electronic communication but I actually really missed it. Well that's not entirely true. Of course I had a wonderful time and could easily cope without constant blogging, texting, checking my emails and even speaking to people on the mobile. It just made me realize what a time filler it is. Just think about it, whenever you have a spare moment don't you just check your phone to fill that space in time?? I know I do and that's a bit weird. What did we used to do in those small pockets of time? Actually use our brains and think about things? I don't think I need to worry about not thinking any more, as I said before I have this ridiculous need to commentate on my life as it is happening inside my head, so I actually welcome the various forms of electronic communication to unfetter my brain. I even use the 'notes' function on my iPhone to write 'to do' lists! Well it's better than the tiny scraps of paper you would normally find around my flat!
Anyway, I digress (not a surprise), I was going to blog about family holidays. Now my mum and I can get on well, but we can also rub each other up the wrong way. The fact that I have my own little lady now, I think has mellowed us both somewhat. Although worryingly, as my other half pointed out when I returned; "God I bet you turned into your mum when you were away". As is often the case, he is right. I do tend to become a chameleon around people and morph into them, be it their accent, their philosophy or behaviour. I don't know if that suggests I'm a weak person, but I just tend to say what I think people want to hear. Enough psychological evaluation! Let's just say my mum and I got on well, which was nice!
I do find that when I go on holiday I eat more; fried breakfasts, a cake and a cuppa at 11, lunch: a massive baguette and chips (do I ever eat that at school lunch times? NO!), an ice cream in the afternoon and then a full dinner, a cream tea here and there and before you know it you're in this routine of stuffing your face constantly! It just seems ok to continuously eat on holiday. Luckily the scales weren't too horrific when I got home, I'm lucky I have a quick metabolism but still....
The other thing that is difficult on holiday is meal times with an 18 month old. Firstly, they eat at 5.30 (at least mine does), so apart from pigging yourself on a plate of chips, who wants to eat their main meal then? Secondly if you do try and go out a tiny bit later and take them with you they are whiney because they are tired and hungry and disturb everyone else's meal in the restaurant (this happened to us). Thirdly, the pub we went to didn't start serving food till 6 and then it didn't arrive until 6.45, cue 45 minutes of whiney crying. By the time the food did arrive it was too piping hot to give to Heidi and I was too stressed to enjoy my food. Much easier to eat in with kids. There was only my mum and me so no options for a baby sitter!
Something else that Heidi thought would be funny, she dropped her absolute favorite soft toy: rabbit (aka rat-rat) down the toilet. My mum and I spent the rest of the afternoon/evening trying to wash and dry him in time for bed when she would surely be asking for 'rat rat'. Typically, after hanging him out the window, using the hairdryer etc to try and get him dry, she didn't ask for him!
She also became obsessed with the hair clips I bought her, wouldn't have them in her hair but called them 'air cips' which sounds a bit like 'Herr Flick' from 'Allo Allo', which always makes me giggle.
Enough said about family holidays and my lovely little lady, although I could also mention map reading and snoring but I won't.
I read a good article while I was away and thought I'd share it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/8688997/Kirstie-Allsopp-Bedroom-is-not-boardroom-sisters.html
Things to do tomorrow now:
No I still haven't cleaned out the spice cupboard
No I still haven't got a mock up of my save the date card
No I haven't sorted out my ebay stuff
I need to pay the deposit for our Italian wedding
More exciting - at some point this week I need to get ready for my other family holiday; to Majorca with Dan and Heidi, which must surely involve some shopping!
Favourite flavour ice cream: a toss up between classic vanilla or rum and raisin (I suggested the latter to share with Heidi on holiday, Gma pointed out she may not like it so went for honeycomb instead - yum)
Workingschoolmum x
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