Friday happies :-)

Lets forget how long it has been since I posted and see if I can just slide in like it was yesterday.  Does that sound okay??

Ok. So, the lovely lovely Tiffany over at Elastamom's excerpts posts a fabulously happy post every Friday. Celebrating the little things that happen over the course of the week that makes us Mum's happy. A chance to focus on the positive notes of each week :-)

This week has been a wee liquoris allsorts of a week for me. A bit of everything, high highs and low lows.

What has made me happy this week

• Celebrating the diamond Jubilee with our family. It was just wonderful :-) more pics to come, but here are a few

• Monday marked our 7 year anniversery. We have the same anniversery as Murray's parents! So at the Jubilee party on Sunday - we also toasted our respective marital bliss :-)

To Mr and Mrs Peat snr and Mr and Mrs Peat jnr, may we all have many many more happy years :-)

• Work has been so crazy hectic lately. I feel like the kids are all getting less than they deserve. But sometimes we manage to carve some magic in to the chaos.

Like button sorting - best activity hands down :-)

 

And then a scavenger hunt with a tiny baby strapped to my chest.

It was just perfect.

• Our girl is 6 now and moments like this have been few and far between. Our girl needs pitch black and white noise to sleep. So to see her just crash out, on her mamas knee, after our Jubilee celebrations?

It is just like poetry to this mama's heart.

And she was wrapped in a mama made quilt.

• Even though we are miles apart - thanks to wonders of the iPhone, I got to see pics of my beautiful Joe boy getting his first hair cut

My he is so grown up!

• And the icing on the cake came home with my gorgeous big boy. Fraser is going to receive an award at school from the Math department. I could not be more proud of my brand new 3rd year! Well done Fraser, we love you xxx

I am looking forward to sharing lots more happies next week :-) xx

Cruise control.

Murray and I are currently on a little road trip.

It's not every day that your childhood best friend gets married and invites you to their wedding at River Cottage. The universe smiled even more upon us as it coincides almost to the day - of our ten year anniversary.

10 years. Wow. We have officially been a couple for a third of our lives!

We dont escape get away , on our own, very often at all. And really, we wouldn't have it any other way, the nest is hard to beat! But sometimes it is nice to head out on your own with no definite timings in mind, just meandering our way through the days. It's nice not to have to know "if we're there yet".

It's good that we get on so well, it has been a pretty long drive but it's been relaxing and even fun.

One topic of conversation that kept coming up was how this trip would never have happened 10 years ago.

For a start it couldn't have happened! I loved my little car of the time because it meant freedom for me. I had been without a car for a while and lived in a teeny tiny village that was quite cut off, so my little white car was my ticket to freedom for my boy and I. But it was far from a road worthy road trip worthy car. When we drove through puddles the water came through the floor, the window wipers hardly worked and well only half of the seats had covers on. But it got us around.

The car we have now is solid, I love our car and it feels so safe to me after the disasters of last year!

I was also not the most adventurous of drivers, I would not have considered driving on a motorway! Oh no. And to drive hundreds of miles on a road I have never seen? Forget it.

But Sean makes it possible.

Oh how I love our Sat Nav!

Another thing we wouldn't have had 10 years ago was a working radio in the car but also a

CD player! And two ipods crammed with music.

 If I could speak to my 20 year old self I would tell her how far she would go in the world. A CD player in the car for goodness sake!

And Mr Peat's favourite joke of the day

LeeAnn - there's a huge Q up ahead.......

 Unfortunately my knowledge of motorways hasn't really improved much and I seemed to annoy a lot of people. I learned many new aggressive driving styles and gestures along the way.

But those grumpy folks couldn't take any of my excitement away because our car has cruise control! Set that baby to 70 MPH and we were just cruising along. It's like one step away from the Jetson's, people!

Just living the dream.

10 years ago we knew were going to be together forever, But I'm not sure even we could have envisioned how "richly" our lives would have improved.

We both have a job that we love, we have our own roof over our heads, we have two beautiful, intelligent , loving and fun loving children.

Our home and lives are enriched by our love of each other and by the family and friends that surround us.

Here's to 10 years of togetherness and to just cruising along for another ten years.... and beyond. xx