One good thing about Monday - Chip Night!

Well it's Monday and the alarm started at 05:45am, it's at this point of time I lie there and try to work out whether or not I can get away with another 10 minutes sleep, but as per normal my better judgement prevails and I get myself up. This morning was a little more awful for 2 reasons, 1) it's Monday, 2) My youngest Florence had her booster injections last Friday and on Sunday afternoon she started to get ill, so during last night she woke me up 2 times for cuddles.
OK, so here is where the organisation starts to kick in. Luckily Easter holidays started today and the girls were going to my in-laws so I only had to make my lunch :-)
So in the first hour of my day I did the following;

• Sorted out the laundry that I had put on over night, swap stuff between dryers, baskets and washing machines. Joy!
• Prepared chips for the evening tea. I don't like frozen chips has to be real ones, and I use my latest most love gadget the 'actifryer' which cooks chips using hot air, and they are incredibly tasty, easy to make and healthy.
• Made my packed lunch.
• Made a coffee for the road.
• Have 5 minutes quiet time eating my muesli and soya milk
• Sorted out kids outfits
• Finally... attempted to make myself look awake and presentable.

Then off I trudge to start a new week in the office.... I won't bore you with the details, lets just say I went in, worked several hours in front of a PC, sat in meetings, oh and happily did an interview and think I have finally found a new engineer... yay!! Then trudge back home.

The joy of spending that 5 minutes in the morning hand cutting chips means that when I call my husband on the way home he starts the dinner so when I walk in I am there in time to help lay the table and dish the food up. You see one tradition I have learnt from my mother is to sit down and eat together as a family. It's so important, helps to build the family bond and some of the funniest conversations I have had with my children is over dinner, it is also a nice time to catch up and get the last work related vent out with my husband. So this is what we try and there is only 1 day a week where we do not do this and that is on Tuesdays when the children eat at the in-laws and I pig out on take away with the husband.

So I walk in tonight to lovely chips, quorn kievs and peas and a bizarre dinner conversation with my eldest daughter about the tooth fairy (she lost a tooth this morning), several renditions of 'let it go' from frozen from my youngest.

Now finally after putting them to bed, doing my yoga I am sat here relaxing and about to watch the latest episode of Game of Thrones..... Happy Monday Everybody!