Man day

Friday was a father and son day as the gf went to London to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert, I was asked to go but not really my cup of tea so she went with her mum instead. So Man day started with me leaving work early as I had booked a half day so that I could get home in time to pick my son up from school. when I got in i made home made burgers and played my games console till it was time to drop the gf off to her mums, with that out of the way I headed to the supermarket to pick up the dinner bits, so burger rolls, chips, cheese mushrooms, garlic and milk. I pick my son up and we get home and instead of the usual stuff we head out side and play some swing ball and I watch him playing on his scooter, he then asks if he can go round to his friends house, so I tell him to get changed because he is still in his school uniform and pretend that he just has to do it and he looks a bit down, but when he has done that I tell him to get his shoes and he starts to get excited but I tell him we are off to the shops and he grudgingly puts his coat on, but when we get outside I send him to his friends and a smile beams from him. whilst he's out playing I sorting the kitchen out and getting the dinner ready, about an hour later I go round and get him and cook dinner, where he plays in the garden for awhile then sots down to watch telly. When i bring the dinner he is very happy that he has got home made burgers and digs straight in, the burger is almost as big as him but he doesn't stop.
After dinner we play around for a bit and he tells me he has made a Mother's Day card, so we get it out and have a look at it and he asks where the stick on the front is, he has made a flower our of tissue paper and the stalk had fallen off, so we check his school bag with no luck, I tell him I will get a stick from outside and glue it on for him. I am getting him ready for bed and he mentions the Golden compass and that he would like to watch it one day, I tell him we have it and try to get it working but my pc is playing silly buggers so I have to tell him we can't, but what about underdog, he looks at me deep in thought then says OK. So we settle down and it is just past his bedtime but we have been having such fun I thought I would keep him up a bit later than normal. I get Underdog working and my son loves it, I have to explain a little of it to him, but then he carries on watching it and is laughing out loud to the funny bits and so am I, yes i do have a kids sense of humour. There was about half hour of the film left and it was coming up to half eight and I though I might as well let him finish watching it and when it was finished he was as good as gold. He went upstairs without a fight, I had a feeling this might happen as he had bene yawning and rubbing his eyes through the last half hour, we brushed his teeth and in to bed he went. I told him that he had to have a lie in as he went to bed so late and he said he would try.
Once he was in bed I went back on to the games console and had a break every so often to have a smoke and get a cup of tea, my eyes started hurting for a while so I watched a bit of TV and around 11 started getting texts from the gf telling me she was on the train home etc, i received one saying that they were going to be late as they were stuck at a station because at another station someone tried to commit suicide. About 20 mins later I was told there were on their way, I presume that the suicide attempt wasn't successful as it wasn't that long a delay. I was also asked if I could take her mum home when they got back which I said yes to.

Saturday morning i got up quite early as my son woke me up asking if he could watch TV, so I got dressed and got to the butchers to get a nice bit of beef for Sunday dinner. As the gf was still in bed i also cleared some junk from the garden and took it to the tip, when i got back the gf had just got up and was having a bath. We then did a bit of shopping and when we got home played more in the garden and also tried to see if my son would ride his bike with no stabilisers, he tried bless him, but his centre of balance seems to be so off, but will be trying again this weekend.

Sunday I got up about 9ish and headed down to the market to get some meat for the freezer, the gf was still asleep when I got back so did some washing up and also made her a cup of tea seeing as it was mothers day. when the gf came down our son gave her her card that he had made at school and also a keyring that he had made for him from school, it cost £1.99 and had a picture of him one side and I love Mummy the other, it was one of the other classes that did it for a enterprise week which they were doing for part of their curriculum. We then popped out to do a bit of shopping and when we got back I cooked us a roast which went down very well and for afters was chocolate pudding for son and gf and syrup pudding for me, I think we were all very stuffed, but a very enjoyable weekend had by all.