Another 5 days

What an exhausting and emotional week. The house has been like a departures/arrivals lounge with all the girls’ comings and goings on school trips. Not to mention the rehearsals for 5 concert appearances and 2 performances of the school play! All were simply amazing and enjoyable but after 3 hours sleep on Sunday night, and only just getting DD2 back from her week away, I couldn’t restrain the tears when waving DD1 off to Normandy at the crack of dawn on Monday. “It’s only 5 days mum!”, she calls back as they drive away in the drizzle. Only 5 days …