Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a good week. Mine has been a good one but I don't have any big favourites to share. It has been one of those weeks when I just seem to have been plodding on with life quite happily but I am going to share the little things that I have been loving and of course linking up with Erika and Andrea.
Pizza!
We got takeaway pizza on Friday evening. It was the first time we've had it in a long time from the pizza shop, so of course it tasted amazing and the best thing about it was that there were leftovers for Saturday evening too. I think pizza always tastes better the next day. I got the Beef Chef's Special with cheese, tomato, beef, onions, sweetcorn, mushrooms and I added extra pineapple. It was so good!
GCSE Exams.
Well, just the one that my youngest has to resit. It's a rule that when you are in further education here in the UK, if you didn't pass your Maths and English GCSE at school, you resit them until you do. Ellie passed her Maths first try but English has been something she just hasn't been able to pass. There are two papers, paper two she is great at, where you read a couple of non-fiction texts and write about them. It's paper one where she struggles, the creative writing. As great as her imagination is, she struggles. You are given a prompt and have to just write but she said it wasn't too bad. This year the exam is with a different exam board and she said it was slightly easier. Fingers crossed she gets it this time. We will find out in August. It's the last chance she will get as she leaves education next month. Eek!
The rain!
Usually I complain about the rain and this week it has rained quite a bit but I am not complaining, the garden needed it. Monday was a day when Stu and I tried to get things done between the showers. The grass out the front and back needed cutting but only the front was cut as just as Stu had finished that the heavens opened. He rushed to get everything unplugged and inside and came in soaked through. We also spent the day debating whether to hang washing out on the line. Stu made a bold choice to try and hung everything out and within 10 minutes he was getting it back in as it had started raining again. The back garden is still needing to be cut but that could be a job for the weekend.
Football (Again!)
Last week in my favourites I wrote about how the football season is coming to an end and now there is only one match to play in the Premier League and even though the winner has been decided (Arsenal) the teams at the bottom still have it all to play for to stay in the Premier League and not be relegated. The EFL Championship play-offs have been a big drama. One team was accused of spying on another and have now been kicked out of the play offs so now it's my two favourite teams playing each other for a place in the Premier League. So tomorrow it's Middlesbrough vs Hull and I think I want our local team Hull to win!
Time with Stu!
I love this stage in life. When the girls were little, Stu and I rarely got any time to go for meals out, have a lot of time home alone or just time together in general. On the odd occasion we did leave the girls with a babysitter, I would worry and we would always have to be back at a certain time. Now that the girls are older and are busy doing their own thing, Stu and I have more time together and I like it. On Sunday we had an afternoon out and a lovely meal which I mentioned in my Wednesday Hodgepodge post. It was nice not having to worry about being back at a certain time. The only thing we had to worry about was catching the bus, as the Sunday service is terrible here and there are two hours between buses. Eek!
What have you loved over the past week?
I hope Ellie passed her English exams. Wow, that's a long time to wait for the results!! When my husband and I took the bar exam (to be able to practice law) the wait seemed considerable (maybe two months?). We've had a lot of rain, too, which we needed so I have not complained! Your meal out with Stu sounds so nice and it isn't it lovely how easy it is to go out compared to 15+ years ago!
ReplyDeleteAww love reading about your time with Stu- enjoy it all!
ReplyDeleteI hop Miss Ellie does well. That's a lot of pressure on her and a long time to wait for the results.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying time with Stu too. Each part of life has it's own joys and isn't it nice to see them?
Good luck with your daughter and I hope she passes. It's so nice that you and your husband can go out together and not rush to be back at a certain time. I hope you have a nice weekend.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am loving this season of life too and getting to spend lots of one on one time with my husband without having to deal with babysitters and schedules. Your week sounds a lot like ours. I've mostly been home puttering about the house and we've had a mix of nice, sunny days and absolutely cold and rainy ones but I know the trees and things need the rain so I try to plan around the weather.
ReplyDeleteIt is a blessing to have one-on-one time with our husbands. It's interesting to think that in the grand scheme of things, we only have intensive parenting for something like 18-20 years (give or take, depending on the number of years between the eldest and youngest child; yet if the Lord so chooses, we can spend 50 years (or more) with our mate. That puts things into an interesting perspective.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question as to what I've loved this week? I love being retired and therefore my hubby and I can spend a great deal of time together.
Time with Stu... YAY!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading it, because my husband and I were the same. We were busy with the boys when they were at home, so now in this time of our life, taking adventures together has been fun.
Sometimes I do wish the boys were with us, because I will say "Sam and Atticus would love this."
xo