take one new house (keys acquired) add packing frenzy multiply by five. 

add three children running about and needing attention, heavy, bulky objects that need to be moved from one house to another minus proper meals.

toss in a whirlwind visit from a very long standing friend who was graciously patient enough to put with simmering tempers and out of control children.

add late nights, early mornings, impromptu sightseeing tours, “mandatory” visitors to the new house (really they are coming just to check out the new digs) minus sleep and any type of rest that may have happened during the day.

equals one three hour nap on the living room sofa taken by insane mother of three 10 days after it all began.

However for posterity the “first school picture” had to be purchased…

what bugs me is that I KNOW I could have gotten a better picture with my digital camera never mind the manual SLR that was got for christmas!

the nice weather has continued in to this week but alas we are told it will end over the weekend and the liquid kind of sunshine will happen once again…

but here’s a loverly memory to keep us in mind of what once was.

new use for old pump

Rush, Co Dublin

While on an outing with the three small and one large hooligan yesterday, it struck me that in Ireland, instead of taking out the old cobbles on the streets, they just pave over them.   So just how much histroy are we walking on that we just take for granted?  (well at least the Irish do coz my husband thinks I’m nuts for taking snaps of it or even pointing it out!)

Well we are now at the end of a two week stretch of really nice weather, that was probly our summer.  In April.  However the timing of the weather could not have been more perfect as it happened to fall during oldest large child’s spring break, which was the past two weeks.  Over the course of the past two weeks, the husband has also been off work so he and oldest large child have been very absent from the house.  Only healthy weighty wee man and wee blonde child have remained … to drive insane mother of three further insane.

Tomorrow school starts again, this will end and begin again in ernest the continual question from oldest large child “Do I go to school tomorrow?”.  It will end because now the answer will be yes and begin again because Fridays will answer “no not until Monday”

Ikea is coming to Dublin! 

Ikea is coming to Dublin!! 

Ikea is coming to Dublin!!!

Ikea is coming to Dublin!!!!

Ikea is coming to Dublin!!!!!

now to wait until it is finally built and ready to open.  my husband will never know what happened to the house once it does.