After a week of being too hot, it drizzled all day today, cold and damp and gloomy. I took the girls down to buy their mother her birthday present this afternoon, and they howled and whined that they deserved a treat, until with Destroyer wailing as she walked down the street I relented and bought them both ice cream, and then sat sulking next to them as they ate it.
At least we got presents and cards sorted out.
Tomorrow we’re vanishing off into nature for a few hours, and then hopefully spending the rest of the day as placidly as possible. I really hope next year I’m more organized about birthdays; maybe not going away to the rainforest for camping when there’s so many other things to do in the weeks ahead. But then again, I never learn, so…