My son has gone to Sheffield for 3 days to stay with the in laws. He has been gone for one night and I don’t know what to do with myself.
He made me a smiley face thingy out of a paper plate so I would look at it when I miss him and he would be smiling at me and he made me cry (flipping heck, it’s only 3 days).
When we got back after leaving him last night the house was so quiet so I went up to his bedroom and stood on a Bay Blade that I had been yelling at him to pick up of the floor the day before and then that made me cry because I am a horrible, horrible mother who sends her son away and then goes around stamping on all his toys and breaking them.
When I phoned him to say goodnight he was all tucked up in bed and we said his prayers over the phone and then that made me cry again because I couldn’t kiss him goodnight.
3 days, flipping heck!

It’s Hubby’s birthday today, 33, you old git, ha ha. I’m catching him up fast, don’t know what I’m laughing at.
He is impossible to buy presents for, he never wants anything, I practically had to force him to choose something yesterday, crazy man. When it’s my birthday I give him a list of about 10 things 3 months in advance which mysteriously seems to increase in size every week until the big day arrives. All he keeps saying is “But I don’t need anything”! Duh, you don’t get stuff for your birthday because you need it! You get it because you want it!
I don’t know why this is such a hard concept for my husband to grasp. Like when I buy new shoes he says “Did you need them”? Well no, nobody actually needs a pair of gold 3 inch stiletto sandals with sparkly bits across the toes do they, but I wanted them but, actually, you need them because they make me happy which in turn makes you happy because I am much more pleasant to be around when I am not pining for the gold stilettos that I didn’t buy because I didn’t think I needed them and isn’t that the best birthday present of all.
Good grief, it’s not rocket science. For such a clever man he can be a bit dim sometimes.

We are going out for a meal tonight. I might wear my gold stilettos.