I got the kids up and dressed and breakfasted this morning before any of us were really ready on the basis that we had to be at SJA HQ for planning next term’s programme and tidying out the Badger room and cupboards. I have to say there does seem to be rather more committment to …
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Another kerazy weekend
Saturday I worked Saturday morning, which had led us to decide to make Sunday our day trip up to The Salmon’s Au Revoir Party Weekend but a text invitation from the McM’s on Friday meant we ended up going to their’s on Saturday late afternoon and staying over on Saturday night. Am now regretting not …
Friday, mostly with painty splodges
We’d been planning to go to Paradise Park today with Ali and Freya, as we have only a few more weeks left on our annual pass before it runs out. But Ali isn’t well and it didn’t seem worth driving over there just for the three of us, and it was too cold to be …
Scarlett
Scarlett is having a bit of a hard time at the moment. This makes me feel sad, want to help her and also rather glad that in the main I can be around to support her and try and help her with it. It also makes me rather tired as one of the main things …
Working
For the last time ever with NC 🙂 Hurrah and Woohoo and that. Had an uneventful day at work really today. I spent some time teaching a colleague how to do one of the small jobs I do. I colour photocopied lots of childrens’ book covers to make jigsaws for Chatterbooks next week. I spent …
Home Education. At home and everything
We were supposed to ice skating today but best laid plans and all that… last week we didn’t go because Davies and Scarlett weren’t up to it, this week I had a phone call last night to say the rest of the people we were planning to meet weren’t going. We will make it before …
Tuesday, stinking of chlorine
I slept in this morning having fallen asleep really quickly when I went to bed last night. Scarlett woke around 5am and came hurtling up the stairs callling ‘Mumma! MUMMA! MUMMA!’ as she ran having had a bad dream so she got in with me and promptly went straight to sleep cuddled up in my …
Monday – green with a white cross on it
Another stupid o’clock start with the kids and I getting up while it was still dark this is not the life for us we thought as we staggered around in various states of undress trying to eat food and drink tea long before our bodies were ready for being upright, let alone starting to function …
Fish
Saturday Pulborough Brooks for Wildlife Explorers first thing, I do wish I made it to more of the monthly trips but they almost always seem to coincide with my Saturday to work. Scarlett went in first. The RSPB have recently acquired a lot of the surrounding land around the existing reserve so Davies, Ady and …
Being a grown up
Work for me today. I did Baby Rhyme time which really was all about the babies today as we had three *really* tiny (as in weeks rather than months old), several still fairly small and just the one 3 year old who looked like Gulliver in with all the tinies. So rather less Grand Old …
Not getting our skates on
We had a lazier and far more what we’re used to start to this morning which was nice 🙂 Infact I realised at ten to ten while the kids were still breakfasting that I really needed to get the vegetables required for beef stew sooner rather than later if I was going to slow cooker …
In your own time
A far too early start this morning as Ady was taking Davies and Scarlett over to Julie’s for the morning and so we all had to be up before 7am. Much stumbling around in the dark struggling to eat breakfast and drink tea way before our bodies were ready to be upright and I waved …
Movies and decisions
We were semi expecting Mark The Plumber today although he didn’t actually turn up, so we planned to be around for most of the day. In the end it was a grey and miserable drizzly day anyway and I’m anticipating February being an expensive month to muddle through so staying home was a good plan. …
Our famous friends
I do sometimes worry that Davies and Scarlett will grow up thinking it is quite usual to be in the media. When Ady was on QVC regularly they were so blase about it they used to turn over to watch Cartoon Network instead. When Scarlett used to be up in the night every night and …
Basking in warmth
Saturday I worked in the morning. My direct boss has been off sick (with something similar sounding to what we’ve had with added sore neck complications, poor thing 🙁 ) so the Childrens Librarian was covering for her. She is precisely what you would imagine when you picture a Childrens’ Librarian and peppers all of …
The socks are off!
Everyone up early today in honour of the MTP returning to finish off the boiler at an indisclosed time ‘after 9ish’, which turned out to be 930. MTP did his thing which included drinking tea, a spot of tradesman style flirting (always well received ;)), finishing off the brickwork and most importantly making hot water …
On the up
but nothing to sing about. Work for me today so I went off leaving Davies and Scarlett with Dad and hoping to be coming home later to a snuggly warm house. Ady had suggested I ring in sick as Scarlett had joined me in bed and I’d had a rotten nights sleep, woken with a …
Cough, cough, cough.
Cough. Cough. Oh yeah……… and cough. That’d be me and the kids then, in triplicate, surround sound coughing. A ca-cough-ony of coughs. A choir of coughers. We are cough-tastic, coughalicious and cougharamas R us. Scarlett slept through in her own bed last night although she has now gotten into the habit of wanting me to …
Hitting Home
It’s been over 4 years since we did this and hand on heart I don’t think I’ve really felt the need to have had one for ’emergency use’ until this week. Cars and boilers all breaking down, in January, a month after Christmas and mere days after a holiday would have been tough at any …
Documenting misery
which is something I tend not to do. Not sure if this because I hate putting it out there, whether I genuinely am an optimist who talks myself out of being miserable long before I’ve managed a blogpost or whether I just don’t like to wallow but it’s been a fairly shitty couple of days …