Friday Fabulousness....

Summer perfection....

....give me a mug of tea and a book and I could sit here all day long....

....so true, even though sometimes the responsibility - and the potential to mess it up -  seems enormous....

Friday, full of freedom and fun....school's out!!

The first day of the hols always feels like a brand new page of a book....

full of endless possibilities....

time to do whatever we want....bliss :)

Hopefully the London rain will stop tomorrow and we can head to the market to buy ingredients for my daughter who has recently discovered the joys of cooking and has vowed to cook a new dish each week this holiday.

We will stop at the library and pick up a pile of books each and then we will stop for coffee/hot chocolate and just sit.

And chat.

Because we can.

One of my favourite moments this week involved my son.

Unlike my daughter who happily drifts through life, my son is a total planner and a strategist.

He has birthday and Christmas lists planned for the next few years, he (thinks he) knows what he will be doing when he is 10 and what being a teenager will mean for him.

For him, 5 (his current age) means this and being 10 will mean that.

Life is pretty busy when you're a growing boy (I so can't wait to see what he grows up to be!!)

Anyway....he has been practising for a very long time both his whistling and clicking his fingers, dreaming of the day when sounds would magically be produced....

it's been a lo-o-o-ng time happening.

Would you believe that suddenly this week, he can do both.

I could have cried - in fact I might have done so, it's been an emotional week - when he burst in one morning clicking and whistling at the same time.

How fabulous to be so happy at such simple - but wonderful - achievements....

That same evening he is on the phone to my brother demonstrating his new found musical abilities and I overhear him saying....

"So when"....(love that he said not if but WHEN!)....."I'm in a band and they need a clicker, I'll be THE ONE"!!

Absolutely precious....I do love that little man :)

Have a wonderful week-end!!

(PS If you would to write a guestpost for me for the month of August, please email me!)