Our little community of twenty-one houses had a CLEANING day yesterday. You know, everyone is perky and kind and they all go out in the lovely sunshine to rake up leaves while whistling a merry little tune…
Well, yesterday was one of those days – but the opposite. Yes, it was clean-up day on the street. But it was windy and rainy and there was a definite lack of whistling but quite a lot of red noses and small boys running around with large rakes.
And – here’s the rub – we FORGOT all about it!
Around one o’clock, one of the neigbour’s kids knocked on the door to say that she wanted to rake up leaves with Anklebiter #1 – and, anyway, weren’t we going to come out and help?
I’m pretty good at making up excuses, so I said, “Er! Help! We forgot!” Actually, that’s not an excuse – but the truth.
“Can your daughter come out?”
Er… er… As I looked inside, I realized that it was 1 p.m. and the kids were still in pajamas. “Well, we haven’t had lunch yet,” I stammered. (Which was true.) “We’ll come out after we’ve eaten.”
So, we launched ourselves out into the rain after lunch – just as everyone else was going home. Just as well really as we had other – more important – preoccupations.
Like getting our pumpkin into order! Mmmm… where do I put the eyes, nose and mouth?
By the way, Sir Pe is on the right left, and the pumpkin is on the right.
Anklebiter #2 actually got his clothes on after getting tomato sauce on his pjs at lunchtime. Our daughter had decided to stay in pjs all day (I wish I could have, but walking the dog in pajamas… no – too cold at this time of year), so she helped Sir Pe with the pumpkin while wearing her pajamas.
The pumpkin didn’t seem to mind!
Nice pumpkin! I suggest sleeping in normal clothes, then no need to change, right?
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Hey That’s clever…Lurk long enough inside and just make aquick appearance when it’s all but over!!!
And how nice is it to have a Pj day???
It is also the only day you get unexpected visitors!!
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Have I told you how much I love it that you cal your kids Anklebiters? Seriously, that kills me.
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Mmmm! Looking forward to trying that pumpkin soup tonight!
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That is one good looking jack-o-lantern!
And we did “fall cleaning” here too! Must have been the time change….got us all in the cleaning mood!
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Hehe I say stay your in pj’s on Saturday 🙂 I love the pumpkin. We have yet to carve ours.
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Ha ha… I love how your reason for not walking the dog in your pajamas is the temperature!
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Soup was delicious, BTW. In fact it sent me straight to sleep, and I was woken by the dog licking my face at 22:05 saying “Isn’t it time for my walk yet, master?” :-p
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I love staying in my jammies all day long, especially on a cold one.
Thank you for stoppying by my blog today!
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I often just let the leaves take care of themselves…especially on a windy, rainy day! I’d much rather carve a pumpkin, too-looks like you got a winner!
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I love being in pajamas all day long – so do the anklebiters. In fact, they lounge around in pjs quite a lot!
And Po – sleeping in clothes has been done many many times too…
Cos we’re parents who care!?!…
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Down under they wear brightly patterned PJs and you see people going down to the paper shop in them and everyone acts like it’s quite normal!! Mind you, last time I saw a man walking through a petrol station at 9pm in his PJs I did phone the nearby hospital in case he was an escapee!!
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Oh, to stay in your pjs all day especially on cold dreary days. I love those days. Nice Jack!
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That soup sounds tres yummy!!
Thanks for stopping by on my BAtW day! 🙂
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That sounds just like us to forget about a day like that…What a great day to spend it though–in pajamas!!
Thanks for submitting your post!
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