First day of the Holidays

Well we've drawn up our calendar for the holidays and made a list of all the things we'd like to do. Yesterday was a nice pottering round day. Jack drew up a plan of the kitchen so we can cross off when we have cleaned out each cupboard (I want the whole place sparkling by the time we go away) Lucy, Harry and I decided to dig up the potatoes and then I thinned out the beetroot a bit. Mum gave me instructions on how to cook them in the pressure cooker (she got me one a few weeks ago from her Charity shop!) Mum's not very well. She and Dad both have Swine flu-like symptoms. Dad's in France though and has been there a couple of weeks, so they've got it from different places - Mum probably got it from Dan who's been ill too :( I have finally put up a clothes line at this house (the retractable one from Lakeland), and got loads of washing dry yesterday. I was very extravagant and got the nice coloured posh pegs!
Here is my lovely peg bag from Laura Ashley... (It will match my kitchen perfectly if I ever get round to finishing it)

Also yesterday we went on the RAF base to have dinner and Family Home Evening with the Bleakleys. The lesson by Abigail was very good - a treasure hunt/scripture chase thingy, which ended up with all 14 of us (10 kids!) in the Celestial Kingdom (AKA Tim and Holly's bedroom) - getting our reward of sweets. Sam (age 6) said the closing prayer and in it said thank you for the 'sweeties' which Harry interrupted to tell him it should be 'sweets'. Harry now thinks he's too grown up to say Sweeties and is correcting anyone who says it...

The activity was helping the Bleakleys pack and get their car roof box on - they are going to Cornwall on holiday this morning! It was a lot of fun anyway and we didn't get home till about 10.30pm.