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So frustrating….
2026
Lincoln came down and told his mom that he…dropped his phone in his bedroom and it landed in some water…
Mom: What water?
Mom: Come on Lincoln, that is not what happened, the screen is soaked where it was already broken…what actually happened?
Lincoln: I dropped it in the sink, sorry!
Mom: Why is your default, to lie to me?
Lincoln: I don’t know.
Mom: That’s more annoying than the phone, even though this is going to cost us £100 it can be fixed but I hate lying, just tell the truth!
His phone is knackered but the insurance can fix it but there is an excess which is a bit too much to pay before payday so we will have to find an old phone to tide him over until we can get it sorted.
Not 2 hours later we get a call that he needs his PE kit because he’s forgotten it, so mom gets in the car and drops off his kit.
An hour later we get an email saying he has been give a detention for not completing his Sparx reading homework, suspended until Thursday if he attends a catch-up and completes the homework and if he does he avoids the detention.
Not sure how the rest of his day will go but up to now its not been the best!
With Jamie rested up after her trip it was house cleaning day, a nailed on certainty because Lincoln announced at the weekend that he would like to invite Liv round for tea. My immediate thoguht was “At least the house will be clean lol”
This announcement meant house proud mamma bear mode was activated and there was no way Lincoln’s first girlfriend would be walking in to the homestead and thinking it was dirty (even though it wasn’t) her first impression was going to be shiny clean and smelling nice.
By the time Liv arrived I was out walking Bill Mom was out at her new gym class in Northwich and Reagan was clucking around playing hostess [rolls eyes]
I only breifly introduced myself not wanting to overwhelm the girl and left them to eat the spaghetti bolognas mom had prepared and Reagan had finished off. When Jamie arrived home the kitchen was clean and empty and the kids were upstairs. After eating our tea Jamie went to look for them and found Linc and Liv in bed…well on it watching a movie. The door was open which is the rule but momma bear was still sad that her baby was growing up in front of her eyes…
….and I was proved right, the house was clean!
Having spent two weeks in me shed, this week I have not even entered it but for picking up me Sonos speaker to take to legion. As much as I love it the main thing this week has been keeping the home fires burning until Jamie returned yesterday.
Today I just pulled on me comfy shorts cooked a Sunday roast while the rest of the family went to church and then sat and watched Man City beat Arsenal on TV, even though the weather was great, but cold so I lit a fire and kept it stoked!
Toasty and lazy
Reagan got picked up by Aunty Helen and after taking Lincoln to Specsavers to pick up new glasses to replace the ones he broke at skating a week ago, that left me to wait around until Jamie arrived in Crewe. It was a long trip and I was looking forward to seeing her but had to wait until 19:26 before she finally arrived and as we were both starving we got a curry on the way home. Not sure the title of this blog was Linco’s bins my emotion or the heat of the curry but the later made mine water a lot.
Got my car back from the repairers today, I had to go pick it up from Enterprise in Northwich and it felt really strange getting out of one manual car and into mine like it was not my car. Then I was being over cautious, driving super safely to the point where I was more likely to make a mistake.
With the bumper fixed, my personal number plate and finally a Broncos logo (so I am representing where ever I go) I think it looks brill and will do me as I do not do enough miles to justify anything else!
As I drove home after dropping Lincoln off at Crewe Lyceum for drama, a song came on in the car Angel Eyes by The Healey Band that’s been on my playlist for years but tonight brought me to tears.
The words just resonated more than ever as I thought about this photo Jamie sent after seeing her earlier and commenting on how beautiful she looked!
So tonight I’ll ask the stars above
How did I ever win your love, yeah
What did I do, what did I say
To turn your angel eyes my way?
Way across [edit]an ocean[/edit] was close enough
I could look but I could never touch
I must miss her, because every word made me cry?
I feel so frustrated right now that no matter what I do for the bloody cat it meows all day. Its making me very tired on my first week back at work because it starts at 5am and does not give up even if I get up and feed it.
It just doesn’t eat or it does I have been unable to suss out what makes it happy while Jamie is away working and I have tried, getting it soft food mixing tuna and lix but it ate one then turned it nose up?
I have had to walk away from it at times because it just does not stop meowing
Having dropped Jamie off at the station I drove home for a week without her, not something I ever want but I’m also so fucking proud of her and how she’s carving out such a brilliant career so I 100% support her!
Her parting words other than ‘I love you’ was ‘I’ll be back before you know it…’
Love the bones of her and always miss her even if she doesn’t believe that.
Although Jamie still had another day off (she doesn’t work Mondays) the kids and me were back to the grind of life.
It went well to be honest and ended with a hot bath and a beer