Not for the last time this year I have spent time at home with one two or all three of my family elsewhere in the world. Jamie left early this morning returning to Staffordshire to help break down the campsite after another successful DTI and it was good to get everyone back together around the table for a meal and to chat about how the week went.

Both children were desperate to take a shower and lay on their own beds but not before we got them to unpack, reluctantly, as both were extremely tired too!

It blows me away how enthusiastic they are about church and stuff like DTI which is testament to the hardwork Jamie has put in encouraging faith and living a good life.

Neither are perfect but they have the tools to help them navigate life and hopefully make good choices along the way.

I just want them to be happy and I think they are right now, the summer break can be a long one where idle hands can become restless but St Ives and DTI filled some of their time and in a week or so they’re off to do missionary work in Hungary again so not too much time to find mischief not that either would hopefully!

All’s well that ends well, now home and rested the plan was Crab and fillet steak for tea after running the few errands.

Sandbach first to get the main ingredients for tonight’s meal.

Winsford second to get a piece of hardwood to make decorative drawer fronts

Costco to replenish the store, one of Jamie’s favourite things to do for some reason?

Finally Mozzas for bits

We always seem to say we love doing life stuff together for me I just love her company no matter what we are doing. The above is just errands things that are not special but need to be done before we can just sit and relax.

We cooked together later and then sat down to a beautiful meal washed down with a good Merlot and ended the evening watching a movie together.

Now that’s a good day!

With the family still all at DTI, after work I went to me shed and threw some darts to unwind for an hour, Billy kept me company dropping a ball just through the doorway for me to kick each time I retrieved me darts and also making sure I didn’t forget he needed a walk…

I fixed Jamie’s Sonos speaker which was not reacting to Alexa commands (it was a button on top that toggles it on and off, doh) then thought how to better distribute the speakers we already have moving kitchen to Bedroom bedroom to bathroom and bathroom to kitchen meaning we now have and Alexa speaker in the bedroom which might be more useful we’ll see

YouTube a bottle of wine and a bubble bath took up the rest of the night and a good nights sleep, apart from the dog not the cat howling at 05:30am not sure why but it pissed me off enough to go down and open the door before returning to bed…me time over I guess?

Straight after work tonight we set off to Staffordshire Show Ground to set up the Marquee for DTI which starts tomorrow (Wednesday?) meaning there would not be much if any help as most people would be at work. There were 14 helpers so we got the marquee up in under 2 hours but then people started putting tents up which was not on the agenda when I said I’d help. Running on no food or water since lunchtime the joke was wearing quite thin by the time the last available tent was erected just before 10pm with light fading and a 45 minute drive home ahead of us.

I just went to bed when I got in too late to eat too tired also. The good thing is the campsite was pretty much ready for the youth the next day with only 4 more tents to erect and they would just need to sort their stuff into their tents and enjoy DTI from there