I am looking forward to the next few days as I get to be dad. Last year people made strange comments about ‘how good it was of me’ and so on. I know they were being nice, but I wanted to respond ‘well … no … they are my children!’ As well as that, to be brutally honest to myself … Sarah does a lot with them on her own most of the time.

Sarah is off to Soul Survivor with the youth group and I am staying at home to look after the children. The same happened last year and this year, given the choice of camping with thousands of teenagers or again looking after the children, I opted for the latter.

Recently I have been finding that time slips away un-noticeably. The children are growing up before me and I am missing out on a lot of what they do. This short time of a few days has been looked forward to by me as a time to catch up.