And so this a week and a bit of Easter. My last entry took us up to Maundy Thursday, before the big 90th celebrations which I have written about in a separate post. In the run up to the birthday I was cautious on what we did to ensure that no one caught Covid to scupper our plans, so the first week of the holiday was lots of walks and outdoor activities, whilst after the celebrations we enjoyed bigger, busier activities.

I did have some pretty blue nails done for the celebration with a little flower to match my navy dress patterned with small spring flowers, I do like a coordinated look.

On Good Friday, we enjoyed a really, hot, sunny day and ,wow, town was busy with visitors coming for a seaside trip. The children went down twice to get fresh hot cross buns from the bakers and both batches sold out before they arrived. It was a bit of a shock not to have my favourite Easter treat, next year I’ll go down at opening time. As Easter weekend was going to be busy, we decided to do the Easter egg hunt on Friday afternoon, I had all the Catholic guilt at doing the hunt at 3pm, for so many years I’ve been in church for the most holiest and solemn of services at that time. However, it was fun and nice to have the afternoon in the garden and just relax as little family of four before a busy weekend.

I have written of our 90th birthday weekend but it was so special to have such a lovely weekend. There is nothing more satisfying than all the hard work and planning coming together to create a memorable and happy family time. We had some fantastic photographs taken by my talented brother in law and I have already printed and framed my favourite, it makes me smile every time I see it.

Following the celebrations, it was about the big, fun activities for the children, we did Splashdown which is the indoor pool with lots of fancy slides, the cinema, meeting up with friends, ringos on the dry ski slope etc.. It was a lot of driving and on occasion waiting around, so I did a fair bit of reading. I loved Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Daisy Jones and the 6, her previous book was a brilliant read and this didn’t disappoint either, it was exactly the type of book I needed, a fun and engaging read, perfect for the holidays. I also watched episode 2 of the final series of Derry girls, I thought episode 1 would be hard to beat, but episode 2 surpassed it with sass. Its definitely the best thing on tv by far.

The week ended with Saturday parkrun and then on Sunday, old friends of Mr S were in town on a break so we met up in the morning before going off to the classic car show in town for my son in the afternoon. It was a good way to end the week and I felt ready to go back to school after what had seemed a long and enjoyable break.