What on earth happened to summer.

Me and the lad were so looking forward to this weekend as he's at his dad's two weekends out of three and I rarely have him to myself. But it has piddled down with the result that I've had a house full of the neighbourhood children all come over to play and another weekend has passed with no time with my own child.

I know I'm selfish but you hear so many parents these days moaning about being surrounded by their children and looking for time away from them. As someone who works full time I can honestly say I don't get enough time with mine. I realise that my time with him is limited as he'll grow up and move away, so I want to make the most of him being at home.

I had my boy late in life ~ well I was 39 and a half ~ and he was naturally conceived. You'd be surprised how many times I've been mistaken for his gran, or asked if he was 'test tube' or fertility treatment. I bet Cherie Blair never got that!

So another weekend disappears into a blur of me washing, cooking and cleaning and him playing upstairs with friends or having friends sleep over.

Never mind ~ we are off to Portugal soon. Oh yeah I just remembered, we're taking one of his friends for company for him. Well thats more reading, drinking and eating time for me. Tis a hard life......