Day 276

Probably won't be able to post my Blog tomorrow night, so I thought I should do tonight's quickly. It was a pretty good day today.

Woke up, and got ready as usual, but the boys had the day off school so it wasn't such a hectic environment. I put Josh and Nathaniel on separate staircases after telling them off for playing football in the house, and eventually we left the house to meet up with another family. A bunch of us were going to the beach today. Because of a fall that occurred this morning, I was taking 2 extra children. Their brother - who fell - and Mom were at the hospital and would be meeting us later on.

I guess there were about 12 kids in total at the beach - all friends - maybe 8 adults - Mom's, Grandma's and I...and a dog. We pretty much had the beach to ourselves. It was great. The boys had a good time, of course Josh threw a number of tantrums, and by the end of the day I had had enough. Him and Nathaniel made me angry and I'm sure they made me look like a bit of a monster. I had planned to treat the 3 of them to a frappuccino, but after this occurrence, there was no chance of that. I had mentioned it though, and Zach said he wanted one. I wasn't about to punish him for what the other two had done, so I took the 3 of them to Starbucks on the way home, and got a drink for Zach and I - both hot drinks as the weather wasn't great, and we needed something warm - It kind of worked to my advantage as I could prove to them that I do not reward bad behaviour.

After Starbucks, we pulled in the driveway and came into the house. I had to call my Uncle to see what his plans were for tonight, and just before I did, Zach said he wanted to come to the Football with me, and he gave me a huge hug. I was happy! I got him into some warmer clothes, he scarfed down some dinner, and my Uncle arrived around 6 to go with us. He drove, and we enjoyed the atmosphere, as we sat in a beautiful park (Same one I took Zach and Xavier to last week), and watched a very frustrating game on a huge screen. I really enjoyed everything but the game haha. It was just soooo frustrating. There's really no other way to describe it. It was terrible. Rooney should have been taken off. Heskey got the raw deal AGAIN, Gerrard didn't do much at all, Lampard kind of forgot to show up...although he did more than Rooney. Really the only person that had a good game was James! He made a save I think 7 out of 10 keepers would have ended up messing up. He caught the ball and fell over someone, but kept the ball in his grasp. I think most would have fumbled it...but seriously, other than that...we were rubbish.

When the game ended, we walked back to the car. Zach fell asleep almost instantly - after asking me a question about Spiderman, and smiling about the answer. When we got in, my Uncle carried Zach to bed, all of the grown-ups had a conversation downstairs, and when my Aunt and Uncle left, I came up to bed. I'm exhausted. There's a huge ass spider waiting for me in the hall...and my Uncle attempted to get him for me but he ran off. Same thing happened when I came up to bed. Let me tell you though, if he's around in the morning, he's a dead man...so he better find somewhere else to go. Right now, the only place I'm going, is to sleep. Good Night xx