Even MORE Rain!!

Today began pretty much as all the others this week only we are getting into the routine & so weren't as rushed getting out of the house! Timmy, Luke & I did a bit of train spotting on the way back from taking Jordan to the holiday club as we cross over the Liverpool-Manchester railway line & walk parallel to it almost the whole way home. We had a nice chat with an old man who told us all about how he used to watch the steam trains from the same bridge when he was a lad & how the steam used to go in his face as the train passed. After watching the coal train with it's 20 or so wagons of coal & 2 passenger trains go past I was exhausted! I had to lift both boys up & stand on tip toes in order for us to see the trains at all over the stone wall. (Timmy pointed out that we really needed a ladder!) It was worth it though!

Next stop was church so I could get some photocopying done for Sparklers on Sunday. (Sparklers is the 3-5 year olds activities during the church meeting on Sunday mornings that I lead). Then we walked to Asda to buy a thankyou present for the team of people who ran the holiday club plus food for tea & then I walked all the way back to pick Jordan up. By this time it was raining very heavily & I had been walking around Liverpool for nearly 3 hours so I was rather tired & by the time we reached the holiday club church I was drenched!

Jordan had a great time at the holiday club & the helpers were really pleased at the way he joined in. the top 3 photos are some of the things he made while he was there. He really loves colouring & takes such care doing it. He must have coloured for an hour on the Pharoh necklace! The mosaic picture is a place mat which I think is fabulous! I hope they do more holiday clubs in the future now they know how successful they are!

Needless to say after such an active morning our afternoon was quite restful. We played with the train jigsaw game, watched a bit of telly & did some colouring. Then Timmy, Luke & Jordan helped me to cook tea. The boys loved mashing the potatoes & we all agreed that it was the best mashed potato EVER!

I put the boys to bed after reading stories altogether in our bed while Lee got ready to go out to sing in the worship band at the church's prayer meeting. It has been a really lovely day! Now I am pooped! Hope your day was good too. ;-)

PS After all the rain the photocopying I had done for Sparklers got a bit soggy in the bottom of the pram so the kids will have wrinkley bible memory verse colouring sheets to take home this week!!