Easter weekend

The long Easter weekend was very welcome for Max and I, the first time in a long time that we've had a lay-in and on 4 days in a row too!  Normally our cats would be knocking on the bedroom door (ok it's more a dragging the pads of their paws down the door but it's an irritating noise all the same) at 5.30am (the time Max gets up during the week for work) to remind us it's time for their breakfast, but even they took advantage of the long weekend and were quiet until gone 8am!

It was a busy but relaxed weekend - some shopping and gardening on Friday, a meal out for my brother's birthday Saturday evening after a day of housework, Sunday was spent at my cousin's seeing my Dad's side of the family most of whom I've not seen since Dad's funeral so was lovely to catch up with them, and Monday was a day of relaxation...

On Sunday I got to see my third cousin, now 2 and a half years old, who I'd not seen since she was a few weeks old.  A proper little girl now, shy at first but then was happily chatting away to anyone that would listen.  She asked me to help her with her sticker book, and later read her a bedtime story, although I read her three but didn't actually finish one!  Sitting in the armchair reading to her, I blocked out the room full of people and had a perfect image of reading a bedtime story to my own child/children some day.  It's moments like that which are so precious, that make me so happy but so sad at the same time.  I can't wait for Max and I to have those moments all the time.