3 things - Day1

Something Good/Happy: Today my eldest sent me photos from Shenzhen, where he is starting a month's internship. He sounds as if he's doing ok. He's not a chatty guy so I was happy to hear from him at all!

Something Bad/Sad: Today my 15yo gave me a scare. They volunteer once a fortnight at RSPCA and normally I drop them off and their father picks them up, keeps them overnight and brings them home on Sunday afternoon. Today, however, he was sick, so the kid was planning to come straight home by public transport.  Unfortunately they boarded the wrong bus.  They should have been home well before dark, so when they weren't I rang and got 'this phone is out of range'.  At that point I was seriously stressed and by the time the kid asked a passerby to let them call me on their phone I was in the car checking the local streets in the dark and rain between home and the bus/train stops. I hugged that child very hard when I finally had them safe in my car!  

Then I stopped at an intersection a bit jerkily (wet road, bad angle, shaky Mum) and the car behind me ran into me. No damage to my car but my towbar did a bit of damage to hers. The kid started crying again, but it could have been so much worse! The young lass who ran into me was dreadfully apologetic.

Something new: When I arrived home the cat had tunnelled under my bedclothes and she gave me quite a shock! It's been very cold and she's been snuggling under the blankets with me but I've always been there to let her in. I left her by her food bowl when I went out so I had no reason to  believe she was in my bed and I nearly sat on her!

3 things - Day2

Something Good/happy: The 19yo, the 15yo and I went out for lunch today. There's a place just around the corner which is fashionable and open on Sundays. The food was fantastic and we had a fun conversation. Some days the kids are snappy at each other but today they they were happily joking around.

As we crossed the road on the way home we discussed whether the food was worth the prices. The kids decided it really was - as long as I was paying! Lol!

Something Bad/sad: We're going to have to be very frugal for the rest of the fortnight to make up for splashing out!  But there was a planned power outage today, it was way too cold not to have a hot lunch and there's not a lot of local cafes open on a Sunday. I s'pose we could have gone to McDonald's. But we didn't  ;)

Something new: Shenzhen is tropical, but it is only just inside the Tropic of Cancer. (Discovered while debating whose weather was worse today: ours or eldest's.)