Easter and egg hunts

So far we have completed 7 Easter egg hunts, is this excessive?

We started off with a school hunt after their school day, this one was not too bad a temptation, they ran around the school finding clues and were then rewarded with a big cream egg. I do admit to one of two of the small cream eggs stumbling my way, did I ever say I was perfect, I don't think so.

Then we headed to the National trust for day 2 with a hunt at Hinton and Ampner, and also day 3 with two hunts, one at Studland beach and one at Corfe castle. The National Trust hunts were great, even better they gave away just a plain and boring Cadburys egg head, not a huge temptation in my eyes.

We then headed to the Naomi House charity hunt at Highclere castle ( better known as Downton Abbey). Now this may have been a big stumbling block for me but fortunately the weather was in my favour. The ice cold wind allowed the kids to do the hunt, but they quickly wanted to then go home. So thank you horrible weather for saving me from the lure of fudge, cotton candy and ice cream.

On Monday I ran a family egg hunt for the kids mates and their families. Everyone brings along some small eggs, we hide them, then the kids find them simple. This was not to bad until I accidentally opened a packet of small cream eggs assuming the contents would be individually wrapped, they were not. As we could not hide them it would just have been down right rude to not eat them, so I did just that, how morale am I.

Then on Tuesday I ran a small toddler hunt at my baby group. This had the potential to be bad bad bad from a dieting perspective. However luckily the three cakes we were selling for charity were soon paid for and consumed by eager families. I simply then did not have time to eat and of the biscuits of hunt rewards due to being rushed off my feet.

I have certainly not been an angel, but it could have been worse, we have another week of holidays left so its possible that it may get so bad that all hope may become lost.

Resisting those empty wine calories

Doing good avoiding the wine, but don't ask about the biscuits and chocolate.

This evening was one of those evenings when I really felt the need for a comforting and relaxing glass of wine once all the kids had settled to bed. You know that first moment of quiet and stillness after 12 or more hours of kid noise and chaos, that's when I like a glass to see me into the evening, but I resisted, how good am I.

I wish I could say the same about the other daily temptations of life, but if I sad anything positive I would be a big fat liar. I have eaten chocolate sheep, cream cakes, Jaffa cakes and biscuits today, I think the word diet is now too ashamed of me to any longer associate itself with my miserable efforts.

To be fair on myself after an egg hunt I ran on Tuesday I had 20 or so Chocolate aero sheep left over, now a few of those sheep have gone to the great stomach, well what else was I supposed to do with them release them into a field maybe!