Mother's day 2006

Ingredients:

5 'children' aged 19 to 28
5 'children's' partners
2 grandchildren
1 husband

Throw the ingredients randomly into a small 2 bedroomed terraced house, shake well and voila the perfect mother's day present.

This year had come so close to that, with only Pea and Rach letting the side down, shame on them. Flowers, chocolates and cards filled the room. Dave, in his never ending attempt to be original, wrote his mummy a book. Or rather he printed out his already written blog. Either way his mummy was pleased, and that's all that mattered.

Having twelve peoples great and small in one little house, mostly in one little room, is pretty snug. Dave was quite often dragged away by his over excited neice Emma. "Let's play hide and seek!!!"

"Emm, there's not alot of places to hide in this room..."

"I can hide under the bed! Come on, let's play!"

... doesn't knowing where a person is hiding kinda spoil the game just a tad?

Dave began his equally determined attempt to try and teach his neice a few new reading words. The battle of wits commenced. It ended up very much in a tie, with Emma under the bed and Dave reading "Red, Blue, Yellow..." to himself.

His other neice, Anya, was as predictable as ever. The amount she cried seemed directly poportional to the inverse of how close she was to Jean. i.e the closer she got to Jean, the louder she got. So cute.

Everyone else sat around chatting about this or that while stuffing themselves full of Teddy-bear cookies.

It was an overall happy occasion.