Woke up respectably late this morning having ensured I got my full 7 hours. This meant it was 11 am! 😳 Ady, who I must point out probably also had 7 hours sleep, just a different 7 hours so while I was busy doing late night and very, very early morning hostessing I passed the …
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Along came Saturday
And off to work again for me. I left only Ady up and was starting to feel the effects of a second morning after the night before at work ;). It was a fairly low key morning thankfully – I did a Back to School display by putting up some black paper and writing on …
And then when it was Friday…
I went to work! Ady was up and away super early with the intention of being home very early. That didn’t quite happen as he ended up sitting in his car for about 4 hours on a completely stationary M25. He did come home with an amusing tale of some people who tried to get …
Way back when it was last week… Thursday
We had our new friends rescheduled visiting today from Monday. I’d slept in a funny position so have a stiff neck/back/shoulder although it has eased through the day but it got me up earlier than normal as it was painful lying in bed. So I had a burst of efficiency first thing and replied to …
Ssshhhh!
No proper childcare arrangements this morning so Ady took the children with him on store visits til 1130 and then dropped them at the library for the last hour and a half. Fortunately I have plenty of stored employee goodwill and they were well behaved and it was really busy with children in there generally …
violet thistles and indigo berry-eating bird poo
See I can do educatin’ too! Seems to be a child in my bed most morning when I wake at the moment. I’m sure they have some sort of ‘says she misses us when she’s not with us ehh?’ type conspiracy going on to try and break me from extremes of ‘don’t ever leave Mummy …
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So about my Granny
No idea what happened to the end of yesterdays blog, but my Granny is fine and well. So, kids needed shoes, I’d cancelled friends coming over incase Davies has a lurgy but he was feeling fine after a hearty breakfast so we headed off to Littlehampton for shoes. We got Davies some new pretendy crocs, …
Sunday and Monday
Sorry Joyce, I left you to cope with it single handed yesterday. In my defense there was a blog post started but it was interrupted by vomit which along with the dog ate it, I had my period and I was at my Granny’s funeral surely qualifies as a proper excuse? So yesterdat then… we …
I probably don’t need to blog really…
just post a great big 🙂 Well he’s home. I think we’ve covered my feelings about him being away fairly comprehensively and we probably don’t need to go over how I’m feeling to have him back really. 😉 Dad appeared just before we were going to fetch him, I suspect it was deliberate, so he …
Muffinicity in the absence of menfolk
Last day. I have enjoyed having Scarlett all to myself and she says she has enjoyed having me all to ourself. We both admitted we’d rather have had Davies here though! We do have plans afoot for if he does it all again next year though. There is no denying I have not coped at …
For Joyce
Who, so she says, misses it when I don’t blog. And worries about holes in the internet and stuff (remember that!? :lol:) Not a lot to say today really. I’ve not heard from Davies and have decided to listen to everyone and assume that no news is good news – and in 36 hours I’ll …
Further Scarlettiness
It’s been a week of full on Mummying really which is odd considering my charges are down by 50% but I always suspected I do 50% of the parenting and the slack is picked up by siblings and it turns out I was right ;). So today the plan was a quiet morning and then …
Cure for bereftness
It’s been a very funny thing, being without Davies. And being alone with Scarlett. I only had an only child for 2 years (and for most of one of those I was pregnant) and that was Davies. Our lifestyle has meant that time with just one child is rare indeed. For the first two days …
You just call out my name…
Ady and Scarlett went off to a car boot sale this morning. I was awake before they went and debated calling down to them to wait for me and I’d go with them and then I remembered that actually I don’t really like car boot sales. So I didn’t. Instead I had two cups of …
Can’t smile without you
Saturday I worked in the morning. I spent quite a bit of time on the enquiry desk. I’d been deliberately kept away from the Summer Reading Challenge as Abi was worried I’d ignore children wanting to talk to me about books they’d read in favour of cross examining them about whether they thought 8 year …
Badger Camp Day minus 1
A work all day day for me today. Thanks to various rota based jiggery pokery I worked with NC again today. In a team of just 4 or 5 people having to work with one I struggle with so much really taints the day. It was mostly fine though – I did Baby Rhyme time …
Let it never be said, the Romans are dead
We went to Fishbourne Roman Palace today as they have ‘Funtime Thursdays’ running throughout the Summer holidays. We tend to go at least once most years and as if you can declare gift aid you get a pass valid for a year. I was trying to jog Davies and Scarlett’s memories about the place this …
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Family
I worked this morning. It went fairly quickly but I am feeling fairly uninspired at the moment. The nightmare colleague isn’t helping and she was in today although she wouldn’t normally be so that wrongfooted me. I did snap at her rather too when she annoyed me which actually might be preferable to pussyfooting round …
New friends
Davies and Scarlett had a sleepover in Davies’ bedroom last night. It’s really strange, I’ve always valued own space and remember as a child feeling very fortunate to have my own bedroom when so many of my friends had to share bedrooms with siblings. It was one of the things I was adamant about before …
Forever blowing bubbles…
Just incase any of you have missed this on various lists… There is a plan for a national Not Back to School Picnic event with bubble blowing at 2pm throughout the UK on Wednesday 16th September. A yahoo group has been set up to coordinate and plan events across the UK and we already have …