Moments with my precious ones!

Even though the last week has been one of the hardest and most emotional of my life, there have been some lovely moments with my precious family too. On Sunday afternoon, before I went to see grandma (I knew it was gonna be a hard afternoon!) we took the kids to maccas for lunch and then went to a local indoor playland. Bethy went to a similar place for the first time for a party a couple of weeks before and had such a great time. The one we went to is smaller and not as good as the one she had gone to but it was still plenty of fun, especially since Elora had never been to one before and Jaden hadn't been to one in years and had been pestering me about it for a while.

Can you tell my girls had a blast???!!!

Bethy was very excited by this 'cake pop', it's a little cake on a stick and they had night garden characters which was great news for my little night garden fan!!

Jaden had fun too, although getting more natural shots was hard cause he kept looking at me when he saw me with my phone up to take a pic LOL.

Elora wanted to get on the big bouncy castle with her brother and sister, but mean mummy thought it wasn't a good idea. She had a go on the smaller one but wasn't impressed.

Then on Tuesday I took the girls to playgroup. Jaden was visiting his nan on his dad's side for a couple of days so it was just us girls. I wasn't in a terribly social mood but decided a couple of hours out of the house would be good for the girls and would tire them out too so they'd have a long arvo nap for mummy!

They did finger painting and Bethy loved it.

Elora thought it looked fun too and had her very first go at painting. Even with the paintshirt on she had it all over her, so that top is now our playgroup top.

She also enjoyed exploring through tunnels.

My kids have been what has kept me sane this week. I have to admit I have not been the best mummy to them over the past few days. I have been crying so much that poor Bethy kept saying 'mummy sad' which broke my heart and she was waking up at night calling for me which is very unusual as she normally calls for her beloved daddy, so I could tell she was worried about mummy. Then on Friday I started the day ok but ended up on a cleaning frenzy and kept yelling at the kids for being in my way or making more mess. The house ended up the cleanest it's been for ages, but it was not my finest moment at all :-( Friday also happened to be my wedding anniversary, so I decided in the end that I wasn't gonna cook dinner and that we would go out instead. So I called Brett and said to meet us a Hog's Breath after work and we had a lovely family dinner. Then today we went to the zoo and had a really lovely day. I will do a full post on that in the next couple of days. We got some extra centrelink money last week and I had planned to put every cent of it in the savings account but decided that we would spend some on some fun family time together, saving for the future is great, but sometimes we need to enjoy the present as well and I really needed that balance and perspective right now.

I love my precious little family and am wanting to just absorb every beautiful minute with them right now!