Just found this post lurking in the drafts where it had become lost in limbo - whoops! Enjoy!!!

30th October 2007

Well, I am sitting in an empty house thinking it is very, very quiet. Our friend Tracey has been visiting with her two daughters (aged 5 and 9) since last Thursday and it’s been a busy few days.

On Friday we took the girls to Legoland Windsor which is about 15 miles away from us, I think they had fun….

and we saw lots of lego….

…I even found some knitting….

…and because it’s close to Halloween they had a huge firework display at the end of the evening. This was probably the best firework display I’ve ever seen and it seemed to go on for ever…the photos don’t really do it justice.

On Saturday we walked down to feed the ducks and swans on the river in Marlow and stopped at the craft shop to buy paper and glitter and crayons to make witches hats and draw fireworks pictures. My brother came over late afternoon and we all went out to our local pub, The Marlow Donkey, to have dinner. When we got back home we played Singstar on the PS2 - Tracey and I singing along to our favourite 80’s songs!!  

Sunday was a quiet day at home playing on the computer games, with lego and then a killer game of Monopoly with Katy, Lucy and myself.

Monday we had a trip to London to visit the Natural History Museum - lots of dinosaurs

and then a whistle-stop tour of some of London’s more famous sites including the Tower of London, Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament

We had so much fun this weekend and really loved having Tracey, Katy and Lucy stay with us…but my house now seems so quiet. I think I’ve finally reached the point where a house full of children seems normal and an empty house with Jonathan and I seems wrong. Throughout the adoption process which Jon and I have been enduring for the past 2 years we’ve gone through various stages - panic (can we really do this?), worry (will they let us do this?), dread (do we really want to do this?) but finally it feels right, I feel I have room in my life for children and things I want to share…..spending a weekend with 2 energetic girls I think settled any lingering worries about that.

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