Busy busy few days...but very good!

Well this week so far has been pretty good really.
On Saturday we had our weekly visit to Doms mums for dinner where we enjoyed,most probably my favourite meal ever, a beef roast dinner. i am very typically English in this as anything stodgy is always a good thing to me. But then my German ancestory comes out when it comes to Salami, saurkraut ( I think this spelling is correct) and fresh pastries which just remind me of a little cake shop called Artingers in Mittenwald. But I don't think anything will ever come close to the taste of their cakes! So really, with English and German blood running through me, I have to constantly remind myself to eat well and healthy! Atleast I said no to pudding on this occasion....
Sunday saw us going to my parents for Brunch. We got there just before 10am to find pain au chocolats, various pastries,yoghurts,toast and lots of fresh fruit on the table. And my verdict...absolutely delicious!! I'm not usually a breakfast eater,whic is bad I know, but this sort of breakfast would do me any day :) After eating we went through to the lounge where Ella had some cuddles with her doting Grandparents and Joshua was on the patio blowing bubbles with my Nan and stealing some of his Grandads homegrown tomatoes. As my parents are gardeners, its always a treat to see what they are growing each season!! It was very strange seeing Joshua eating those tomatoes as it is exactly was I used to do with my Grandads when I was much younger. I would go into the garden with my Nan (Dads mum) and she would always say "Don't tell your Grandad"...not encouraging one point to keep a secret :) We left there at about 1.30pm and came home. we had intended to go for a stroll on the beach but as it was lush weather decided to do some work on the garden as some of the plants had gotten quite overgrown. After this, we got Joshua some dinner,bathtime then off to bed (well after his story and a very long cuddle with Mummy). Once both of the children were asleep, I enjoyed a glass of wine and Dom a bottle of beer...all in all a very good weekend!!
on Monday I met up with a very good friend of mine whom I met at work called Lucy. I have mentioned her before in a previous post. We met at The Moon in the Sqaure for a general chit chat about how university is treating her as she started doing a Performing arts degree this year and also about what has been going on in our lives since we last saw each other. 2/3 large glasses of wine later we decided to call it a day as she had rehearsals for her christmas sho sheis doing this year. I will be going to this so can't wait to post some piccies and tell you all what it was like!!
Tuesday was just a very chilled day at home becuase as you will find out in a minute, Wednesday was a very busy day! Joshua did have his first disco at school in the evening and he came out with glowsticks and sweets...sounds more like a rave to me!! :)
I had to get up at 5.30am to get a train to Southamton at 7am. It was for a meeting in Frimley,Camberley for all Travel Money Managers of all the Bureaus in the South west. Once I had got to Southampton Central station and found my way to the side where I was being picked up,I jumped in a collegues car and had an hours drive to the meeting. I must say that since attending this meeting it has really made me excited about this job I start on Monday as it is definatele more of a Managerial role than what I though it was. It seems alot of changes have happened since I ent on Maternity leave to make it like this. There is now a course that I and all the other Managers of the bureaus have to complete, of which the first stage of training happened yesterday and we now have a workbook to have complete by 2 weeks time and we have to get a certain % correct otherwise we have to retake it. It definately makes sure you are right for the company and i think it is completely right we have to do it. I can't wait for my team to start doing it too!! We finished the meeting at 5.30pm and I got back to Southampton at 6.30pm where Dom was waiting for me. It was his birthday on this day aswell so after getting the children from his Mum we got a takeaway and then I headed straight to bed!