After yet ANOTHER break

I haven't blogged for ever so long and its gotten to the point now where I feel I can't go back cos I've been away too long. But I'm a hard faced mare so I'm making my grand return. Yet again.

So much has happened since we moved to Mold and my last blog in August, but I'm mostly going to concentrate on Little Prince's start at at school.

But first, the Heelys. Huge mistake! I fell down, got up, fell down, got up... you get the drift. It's a good job I'm used to falling down and comfortable with hitting the floor! In the end, Prince Daddy confiscated my wheels for my own health and safety. So now I have some very nice shoes! I have put them away until either I become balanced enough for them (HA!) or Little Prince grows into them. Guess which will come first!

So, Little Prince started nursery in September. One week he has a morning session and the next week is an afternoon session. As you can imagine, this plays hell with Princess Mummy's internal clock, and on one occasion so far I have taken the Little Prince to his afternoon session an hour early and we had to return home and leave again later. Little Prince took this all in his stride, as you may have expected.

Little Prince took to school like a fish to water. Without a backward glance he trotted in, as I dabbed my eyes with a lace hanky, for all the world like a 1940s mother sending her child off to war. I went to a cafe 5 minutes away (I DID time it!) and sat for the whole session, drinking coffee and watching my phone for the inevitable message that my little angel would be missing me so badly. It never came. Despite my being there to collect him 10 minutes early, Little Prince was one of the last out, and only when a teacher promised him he could go back. He still resents the weekends because he bounces out of bed ready to go and is forced into having a Play Day at home.

We've had a few minor issues. One of our first conversations on the way home from school went like this:

LP: I don't like X

PM: Why not?

LP: He's a willy head

PM: Don't say willy head. Why is X a willy head (yes, I know!)

LP: He keeps calling me naughty when I wasn't.

PM: Did you tell a teacher?

LP: No. (pause) I pushed him down.

Little Prince and X are now best friends and hold hands in the playground.

Sometimes I feel like he understands the world better than I do!