Not a great day.

Well... today has been a pretty weird day. I had all sorts of plans, none of which were really accomplished. Elsie and I are going away without daddy for the first time this weekend. A very good friend of mine is getting married in a few weeks, and has invited us both to her hen weekend. I've also managed to foolishly volunteer to help organise the food for the weekend. So I will be dead busy tomorrow not only packing for both of us, but also doing a huge shop and cooking a great big vat of chili for everyone.

Normally, Elsie and I go swimming on a Thursday morning, but I decided to pack in the swimming this week since we had such a busy day planned. I was hoping to nip to Asda to get a few essential bits for the weekend and some stuff that we need at home. And I also forgot until the other day that I need to get a pressie for Hannah (the bride-to-be), so we needed to go to Speke to poke around the shops and find something cheap, but nice. Plus I said I'd make cookies for the weekend.

Well, we crawled out of bed (I always feel so tired in the morning after waking 1-2 times in the night to feed little miss. Must go to bed earlier!!!) at around 8:30am - Elsie is usually very patient and will squirm around and play after she wakes up while I squeeze out a few extra minutes of sleep, but got whingy quite quickly this morning. (Although I realise that since Elsie sleeps until around 8am every morning, we are extremely blessed in the baby sleeping stakes regardless of how long she is willing to faff around after waking!) And we went downstairs, where I realised that I'd left the nappies in the washing machine and we therefore had none dry to put on her. So I threw the nappies in the tumble dryer and we set about waiting for them to dry. I should have carried on and got myself dressed and stuff accomplished while we waited, but instead we just waited and had breakfast. It all went downhill from there. Since we were out of our usual routine we just sort of sat around killing time all day and doing more or less nothing.

Even when Daddy got home, things kept going weird. I was baking the cookies when he arrived, and discovered that the recipe didn't make nearly as much as I thought it would. So although cookies were baked, I don't feel I can really cross it off my list since I probably ought to head out to the kitchen now and bake another batch. I even managed to screw up our tea -- jacket potatoes! So now it's 9:45pm (where do my evenings go... they seem to just slip away before I've managed to get anything done or appreciate them properly) and today can go down in the books as an almost utter waste of space.

I'll have to pick up the bits and bobs that we needed from the store when Susie and I go to do the big hen weekend shop, and I've decided that due to budgetary restraints and in order to save our cash for a really nice wedding present, Hannah will receive a lovely garment that I got at my bridal shower and never wore and some bubble bath I was given for my birthday and know I won't use.

Oh well... tomorrow is a fresh day with no mistakes in it (yet)!

One small highlight of the day... Elsie began lifting some of the flaps in her "Dear Zoo" book all by herself today. :)