Week's holiday

Many of you already know but for those of you who don't, we're going away for a week. We're not going off island (thank God), just down south like last year. I do hope the weather improves soon as it feels like it's been raining forever!

If you've e-mailed me or left comments and are waiting for a response, apologies for not replying sooner. I'll get back to you all next weekend.

In the meantime, have a great week, and I'll leave you with a photo of Katie from the birthday party. There are some more to come but this will have to do for now. Thank you everyone for the kind birthday wishes for Katie. I've passed them on and explained where each and every one has come from.

Take care...Bernie

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Easter hols

It doesn't seem all that long ago that we were wrestling with flu and Christmas decorations in our house. Now, the kids are off school for their two week Easter hols. Where does the time go????

Little Miss CB will be busy for at least 4 days of the holiday attending various sporting activites - namely soccer, netball, basketball and racquet sports. We're very luck here on the Isle of Man. There's a great Sports & Recreation programme which we've watched grow since moving here nearly 5 years ago. Obviously you have to pay for it, but it's a small price to pay for your child's health, fitness and happiness (and mum & dad's sanity!)

We're also going away for a few days over Easter weekend. Mr CB and his Little princess are going to watch Manchester United play Roma at Old Trafford on Tuesday 10th April so we thought it would be fun to tag a few days onto that trip and get the most out of the long weekend. We're not footie fanatics in our house (one look at mnyself and Mr CB and you'll see that I'm serious) but you can't help being enthusiastic about soccer as Little Miss CB loves it SOOO much!

Speaking of which, we have the Manx Youth Games coming up in May, for which Miss CB has been training religiously for the girl's soccer. Watch this space for more gushing, ahem, news!

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Birthday cakes! Yum...

Every year for the past few years, or at least since Little Miss CB has been old enough to notice, both mine and Mr CB's birthdays inevitably end up as tea parties for hosted by Little Miss and her friends. This year was no exception.
As you can see, the kids did a great job on the buns. There was also a chocolate birthday cake too but that didn't last long enough for a picture. We had a fun evening with the kids and our niece and nephew stayed over too.

It was exhausting though and I've decided that I would like me and Mr CB to each have a grown up party this year! I think we've earned it!

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