I smiled today ...

I smiled today when searching for flights to go see son and family I found one in my budget range , I rang them to clarify dates and my dil answered sounding very sleepy and said oh can we ring you back we're all having a siesta.. trust me to ring at the wrong time...

I smiled today because DBH has completed half of my new raised beds in the veg area. We don't have enough soil to fill all the ones he has yet to make, but it's lovely to be able to sow veg seeds at a good height, it's made life so much easier.

It sounds idyllic granjura - and I'm so pleased you bumped this thread into the 'active' list, because I didn't know about it!

I smiled today because I found this thread

What a lovely picture you paint GranJ

Smiled yesterday as I had to dash upstairs to the barn to open the little window, as the house martins had arrived and were fussing outside as the opening to their home was still closed!

And today as the garden is full of butterfles and I saw newts darting in the pond as I put the solar waterwall in. Spring has definitely sprung...

No fish in the pond to allow all the native wildlife like newts, frogs, toads and dragonflies to survive- gold fish and carp are totally un-ecological and will eat all native wildlife.

I smiled today because I had lunch with all three DDs after helping to choose DD3s wedding veil.

Wot? No one smiling today?
I smiled for 10 minutes of Facetime-18 month old DGS in a very giggly mood, utterly infectious chortle about absolutely nothing, bless him!
He reminds me so much of his dad at that age

granjura that is a good one.

kittylester we love those too! We buy them every year for our GC's stockings just so that we can play with them!

I smiled because my cousin in Tasmania put on her FB page- which I just had to share

IF I WANTED TO BE CONTROLLED
I WOULD HAVE COME WITH A REMOTE

I could get used to this Anya!

Enjoy Nightowl there is something about having no one else to worry about but yourself which is very liberating

I smiled at 6pm when I opened the door to my hotel room (nowhere exciting) because I am working away this weekend and staying over. After a meal in the restaurant I will have a lovely soak in the bath, get into my jim jams, into bed, and have complete control of the remote control all night. Bliss!

I love those janer - glad he liked his presents.

I smiled today when DGS2 came home from a birthday party with a ball that flashes different colours when it lands on the floor. I could play with it for hours!!

Just had another big session. It's DS's birthday next week and he will be back at uni, so we decided to hold his birthday today. We had cake and candles at 3.30 and he opened our presents to him. He loved them, but the look on his face when he opened a huge box and found

www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk/home-storage/lego-storage-bricks-traditional

was brilliant, how I wish I had had a camera on me! They even stack! No excuse for all those odds and ends hanging around now - which will make me some more!

I smiled when a lady called to collect the cake DD had made for the her daughter's 21st. She said she wanted a 'show stopper' and had seen one of DD's cakes on fb. She was thrilled and insisted on paying more than the agreed price. After all the knocks, it's lovely to see her appreciated and by someone who isn't family (as we are 'just saying it' obviously!)

I smiled today because the dogs did not wake me up at 6 a.m. but allowed me a lay in. Also because a friend rang and invited me for coffee and DD2 turned up unexpectedly so she was invited as well.

I really smiled today when I came downstairs and saw that the dozen fruit buns I had left on the side to cool last night were now down to only 8.

It took me a second or two to remember that DS is home for the weekend! Which was why I felt the need to make buns in the first place, but even so, I had thought they might last a bit longer!

This thread has made me smile. Thankyou all

GS 7 who from a very young age has always had a fascination for rubbish. He likes to sort through it and has children's books about recycling and rubbish dumps. For Christmas he asked for a metal detector and is often found behind the shed digging in the dirt. I smiled today watching him engrossed, watching the Time Team programme. Maybe we have a future archaeologist and not a future rubbish collector.

I smiled today when dgs asked why I keep the fridge and washing machine and dishwasher in cupboards.

Smiled again when his sister age 7 told me she got full marks today in school Friday test, and also last Friday. Pleases me no end because I always do 'revision with her on a Thursday.

I smiled when I was serving up chicken nuggets, chips and beans to DGD3 to find her spooning tomato sauce from her 'dipping' bowl into her mouth using the coffee measuring spoon!

I smiled today when I walked outside the back door and realised it was warm and sunny enough to sit outside and read for a couple of hours..
Its so beautiful and after the awful dismal cloudy start this morning too...

You see, she did have 2 plaits and was left with one (so she was a bit unbalanced)!