which is handy really, self marinading and quite possibly why it’s getting fat, it’s all bloated with too much chardonnay.
Missed blogging last night so here’s a special bonus two day catch up edition 🙂
Monday we all had a bit of a lay in and then headed over to Tasha’s. The twin obstacles of the car and illness had meant we’d cancelled seeing them twice last week. We had a lovely few hours round there laughing, chatting, playing and bitching – none of us did all of those things, I’ll let you work out who did which ;).
I wanted to get home before dark to put the chickens away and chop some firewood but Ady was already home and had the fire lit. Davies and Scarlett put the chickens away and I made them some tea. Ady was feeling rough – I’m hoping that is all four of us having now had the same bug rather than different ones circling between us.
I nipped out to get some bits for our dinner and came back to usher childrent to bed. They have had so many late nights in the last few weeks I have had them in bed by about 7 for the last two nights. They are not necessarily asleep much before about 10 but it’s better than bed at 9 and still awake at midnight.
All of this meant I had dinner on the table by about 8pm and therefore peaked rather early with my wine. Ady and I watched River Cottage and then he went off to bed, leaving me free to be silly on the internet before going to bed fairly early myself.
Tuesday Should have been last swimming lesson for the kids but we ascertained fairly early in the day that neither was really up for it. I decided to bite the bullet with a few things and had a productive morning; I made pizza dough as that was Davies’ request for dinner, dealt with several loads of laundry, chopped enough firewood for today and tomorrow, made a huge batch of mincemeat – I’m now trying to use up stuff in cupboards. I chatted to the kids about getting rid of the chickens and made some enquiries about that in various places – it’s our plan for 3 hens to go permanently to LovelyEm’s and the rest to be rehomed somewhere that we can potentially get them back from if we come home. I have been wondering about seeing if our tennant would like to keep them on as they are pretty low maintenance but that will need looking into nearer the time and I’d like to have a plan b in place already.
So then I made a couple of phonecalls to letting agents and have two different ones coming round tomorrow afternoon. This is the last big hurdle of the whole plan for next year and the one we have least control over. It is time sensitive as Ady can’t really hand his notice in until we have a tenant lined up and he needs to hand his notice in at the end of January if he wants to leave at the end of February so we can go at the beginning of March. Eek, it’s all very close now.
We watched various TV including lots of Deadly 60 stuff. Davies played with geomags and Scarlett did some of the crafty things she was given for her birthday at camp. I decided they both needed a bath so Scarlett had one before dinner and Davies had one after dinner. To persuade Scarlett I ran her a really bubbly bath and lit some candles in there – not at all sure I should be encouraging such diva-like tastes in my eight year old but she won’t be getting the chance for many such experiences next year so she may as well enjoy it now.
Ady arrived home, still feeling and looking pretty rough 🙁 I brushed Tarly’s hair, the kids ate and then Davies had a bath while Tarly and I looked at Playmobil online then the kids went off to bed early again.
I cooked dinner which Ady just about ate before heading off to bed himself. I’ve watched a documentary following an American couple and their children in Las Vegas for four years which was very sad and quite compelling watching. It sort of ended happily but suspect they are the sort of people there simply are no happy ever after endings for. Made me feel very priviledged to be born where and when I was and have the choices I do available to me.
And I’ve failed to mention the stuff I wanted to about the kids but that will have to wait for another day.