I think the kids had forgotton it was Easter with all the excitement of having a decent amount of snow. It wasn't until the afternoon that Eilidh suddenly realised there had been no easter egg hunt so I dutifully went and hid all their little home-made easter eggs and a couple of other bits all over the house (tissue paper covered eggs and snow don't really go!!) They then spent half an hour screaming and shouting at each other collecting them all up and eventually finding all of them (I think....I forgot to count them before hiding them so there may be some more hiding somewhere!!) Of course then it was a marathon chocolate eating contest to see who could eat the most before mummy realised!

They had a good day and went to bed happy, snow and chocolate....what a great combination!

We were also keen to get to bed to try out our new mattress, yes we have one at last! well, alright it's new to us, another Freecycle bargain, an almost new king size mattress..brilliant! Shame Dave didn't stop snoring all night otherwise I might have got a good night's sleep!

Today Dave was going to look at some new possible jobs while we went off to sort out our big holiday house. Eilidh and Ben were really good today and sat and watched telly and played while I got on with cleaning and sorting. We then rushed over to our friends Kate, Dennis and Florence only to find them not in so I took the kids to an ice-cream farm in Kendal for a treat. When we got there Eilidh found some calves to stroke, Ben found the sand-pit and I begged them to hurry up as I wanted a coffee! The lure of ice-cream soon got them moving thankfully and then we tried our friends again but they were still not there. When we got home we found out that Kate had just been round to ours to see if we were in......typical!