These holidays though, they ended up taking the younger three
instead. Two were supposed to go to
their Grandma and Granddad’s, but unfortunately Grandma ended up extremely ill
and in hospital the night before they were going to take them home with them,
so my parents offered to take them as well so they wouldn’t miss out on a
‘holiday’.
That’s just what my parents do – they hate to see their grandchildren
disappointed and love to help out whenever they can.
So for the first week of the school holidays, it was just Jules and
us. In my post ‘Stress Relief for
Siblings’, I wrote about how Nigel and I took our younger three to Fingal Head
for a day while Jules was on his own ‘holiday’ with Nanny and Poppy. This time around, we decided to take the
drive down with Julian.
This isn’t as easy as it sounds – the walk up to the Lighthouse and
cliffs one way would be quite tiring for him, so we needed to find an
alternative way that was a lot shorter.
We ended up finding another car park that was closer, and made sure he
took it easy on the stairs on the way up.
It was a great day. Fish and
chips for lunch, wandering along the beach and climbing unusual trees (well,
Julian did anyway) and getting stuck on the way down. He did end up getting palpitations on the way
back to the car at the end of the day, so hopefully these were recorded on the
event recorder he was wearing!
This time was good for us. It
gave Nigel and I a chance to enjoy his strange sense of humour without having
to curb it in front of his younger siblings, and a chance to just sit and talk.
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