Sunday's Doings!

I'm doing yet another catch up post!! On Sunday morning me and LMS went to our friend's house, C is a seamstress and I want her to make some new covers for the sofa/sofa bed part of Drama Teen's bed. She has a sort of bunk bed, where the top is a single bed and the bottom part can be either a sofa or a double sofa bed. LMS came along as she wanted Seamstress to shorten a prom dress/ball gown she bought when we went to America this Summer. I've had the material for the new covers for months (and months and months!!) and I keep forgetting to take it round to Seamstress, and whenever I remember to ring her up she is snowed under!! So we agreed that I would bring the stuff round so that it is next in the queue once she has finished her current jobs, and she will just give me a ring once they are done. I also had a word with her husband who is a very talented stained glass artist. I have many of his designs around the house, and the window at the end of our hallway is covered in his fairies. Now we are adopting from Ethiopia, I have asked him to make me some more fairies with black hair and brown skin so that Ethiopia MeiMei has some fairies that look like her :-)

After that our next stop was the tip to drop off all the rubbish we had sorted out the other day. And then I took LMS round to one of her friend's houses as they were having a get together for one of the group's birthdays. She has now realised how difficult it is not having her car here, and is planning to come home in it for the Christmas holidays. She will probably split the long journey into two, by staying over at Grandma's on the way. I am sure she will manage the journey doing it that way :-)

Me and Mr Messy were supposed to be sorting out the dining room, but unfortunately he didn't feel very good, nothing specific wrong just a bit bleugh. I was quite worried about this as he was going to be taking LMS back to University and driving back, which is about a 7-8 hour journey!! In the end I decided that me and Little Prince would come along too, so that I would be able to take over the driving if needed. I left Mr Messy packing a play bag, snack bag and pyjamas and small quilt for Little Prince, while I went to pick LMS up again. Once we were back she had one or two bits to pack up and then we set off. I wish Drama Teen had been able to travel with us too, but she had lots of homework and most of it was due in on Monday so, unfortunately she had to stay at home.

The journey was long and fairly uneventful. At one point LMS was trying to distract Little Prince from something and was pointing out the rural scenery we were driving through. She was told that was "Booooooring! Its just fields and trees and sheep!" We visited Sister in Law and her two kids who live near to LMS's University and it was great to chat and catch up :-) Little Prince was thrilled to play with his cousins.

It was dark when we finally arrived at LMS's house, which made carrying her things up the narrow, steep and slippery path 'interesting'!!! We made it with no injuries though. LMS got teased off her Dad for some of the more risque things she had written on her Bucket List - she didn't tell us about THOSE lol!! All too soon we had to get Little Prince in his pyjamas (it would be after midnight when we got home) wrap him up in his quilt and say goodbye to LMS. It was sad :-( Little Prince kept saying that he didn't like saying goodbye to his sister and that it was making him cry :-( We all miss her a lot.

We got caught in two major traffic jams (on a Sunday night!!!) and it was extremely late when we finally arrived home. We'd kept in touch with Drama Teen all day by phone, and luckily she'd been very sensible and got on with her homework and locked up and gone to bed, so she wasn't too tired for school in the morning.