Weekend Update: Summer in Wales

Recent weekends indicate that we have somehow moved from the really tiring baby/newborn/young kids hard times to the really really tiring young kids good times.  I am basically always tired, and there isn't much of a break, but there is a lot of fun happening now.

Friday
There is currently a heatwave in Wales and it is 32c/90f today.  Friday was a childcare day for me and I took Lily and the twins to the Park after dropping Ezra at school at 9am and it was SO HOT we left within 30 minutes.  I know maybe 90f isn't hot for most, but it is hot when there is a shade-less play park, and when you're used to 65 degrees.  We came home and did this instead:

I like the flow of my Fridays right now - Ezra to school at 9, Lily to school at 1, twins asleep from 12-2:45... I can get up to 2 hours of Rachel time on a Friday.  The summer will mean my Rachel time disappears since Ezra and Lily will be home on Fridays... but also I think we have guests 4 of 6 Summer Fridays.  So maybe, it will just be summer.

Saturday

We had a relatively calm morning on Saturday... until the twins decided they were bored at 8:30 and Andy took them to a garden center.  Ezra (6) and Lily (4) played with Duplo and wrote thank you cards.  We had a picnic lunch in the garden, and then I went out for a swim with a friend and had lunch at a cafe which was dreeeamy.

In the afternoon we were invited to a friend's house for dinner, which seems very foolish of them but they had a padding pool out and the kids had a great time.  We brought macaroni and cheese because when yous show up to dinner with 6 people you may as well offer to bring the main course?  Twins are getting better and better at eating in new and exciting places.

After bedtime I met a friend at a local Thai restaurant for dinner.  I had emailed beforehand to ask if there was any cooling system there since I knew it was a small warm open kitchen restaurant and they said "yes we have air con!" which clearly was a con (dad joke sorry) as they definitely did not have any air con and it was soooo hot.  Like, Thailand hot.  Which makes sense for the cuisine but also if I was eating in Thailand I would probably be outside and not in a small terraced house restaurant... oh well! Food and company were great, and we ordered ice cream after because of course it was almost mandatory

Sunday

Because it's so hot I've been waking up early... this morning around 4:30am I  decided to go for a "long run" before the kids woke up (and while it was only 20c/70f).  I am definitely tired and also hot but I managed 4.7 miles before I had to come home and do breakfasts.  I only need to learn how to run 8.7 more miles before my half marathon in October.

Andy and I have started swapping weekend mornings for our own time (although I did lunch on Sat instead) so Sunday morning I took all the kids to a local splash pad which also happens to be near a girl we know who is at the perfect age for mothers helper-ing.  She was great with the kids and there is no way I could have taken them all myself.

Aubrey is highly suspicious of water.  Clara loves water.  

We made it out with only minimal difficulty:

And now we are waiting for a grocery order before friends join us for playing (Andy set up a slip and slide) and dinner at our house (It's falafel and other things that don't need cooking!).  And then we've had another very very summer weekend and it will be time for the last week of school.

Andy reminded me that the twins will be 2 in 3.5 months which means it will be the end of October in 3.5 months which seems crazy because right now I feel like summer will last forever (in a good way).  But I am also sure in about 5 weeks I'll feel like summer will last forever (in a bad way) so maybe I can go back and read this post then.

Are you having summer weekends? Are my kids probably or definitely going to break bones on a slip and slide later?  Can we come over to your house for dinner if we bring macaroni and cheese?