This n That

I'm rather serenely cooking the boys' tea - salmon hash* and mixed veg - while my two angels play nicely together in the living room. It's Sam's birthday party tomorrow and I'm sure that with an hour to go, I'll be getting cross at the boys for making a mess, with Doug for not doing what he should be doing and with myself for not doing as much of the preparation today instead of messing about for an hour on LOTRO.

But for now, the fairy cakes are iced and decorated, the rice crispy cakes are made, the jelly is setting and a selection of music from Lazytown and Cbeebies has been placed on the iPod shuffle to provide the music for pass the parcel. I still have Sam's presents to wrap and the aforementioned parcel to assemble, but at the moment I'm relishing a quiet evening with Doug, eating Chicken Madras and watching a film on Sky Movies and in bed at a reasonable hour for a change.

Jacob has been absolutely loving nursery school, but has been so tired from charging around relentlessly for 3 hours every day that he's started wetting himself at night; this has upset him quite a lot, so I bought some of those Dry Nites pants for older boys and sold them to him as "magic pants". I think he's so relieved not to be waking up in the middle of the night with soaking pants and bedding that he's overlooked the rather obvious fact; that they actually are large nappies. Still, anything for a quiet night. If Sam could sleep through the night, my cup would runneth over, but one thing at a time......

* should be fishcakes, but I seriously can't be arsed to add egg and make them into nicely floured rounds, so hash it is :)