Lounge – needs all hard surfaces dusting, sofa covers changing, pile of stuff beside each sofa finding a new home for.
Hall – coats need shoving somewhere as many of them are unlikely to be worn for abour five months! Shoes need putting in shoe box, bookcase needs a tidy up and all books sitting infront of it slotting onto the shelves.
Tarly’s room – Bed needs changing, surfaces need dusting, toys need a quick tidy up.
Playroom – desk needs excavating! surfaces need clearing back into the units below.
Kitchen – window sill needs a wipe down, oven needs cleaning.
Bathroom – sink and bath need foam blast cleaning, stuff on surfaces needs putting away, towels need refolding, windowsill needs dusting.
Stairs – need a hoover!
Davies’ bedroom – surfaces need dusting, bed needs changing, toys need a tidy, books need to come out from under the bed and into the bookcase
Our bedroom – clean laundry needs putting away, bed needs changing, surfaces need dusting, stuff on top needs a home
en-suite – sink needs cleaning, shelves need some stuff chucking (shelves of sanitary protection now redundant due to mooncup need chucking / giving away / selling on ebay! 😉 )
Yep, in less than 24 hours Joyce will be here!!! And the place is long over-due for such an overhaul anyway. As soon as I have finished sitting here trying to summon up the energy to do so I will get started on it!
Off to Ali’s house first thing to finally drop of Freya’s birthday card and pressie which seemed well receieved 🙂 I had planned to simply run in myself but the kids were insistent that they *needed* to give it to her so we ended up staying for about an hour. I met J, kids played in Freya’s new sandpit and bounced on her new trampoline and I sympathised with Ali’s hayfever. Brief but nice 🙂
Realised we simply were not going to make it home in time for lunch and had already chucked their TT2 t shirts in the car so stopped at a garage for sandwiches to eat in the car and drove straight there.
Scarlett did pretty well considering the heat and added distraction of not wearing a nappy. As next week is the last week of TT2 for Davies – he becomes a Gym Bob in September when they go back after summer break I thought I’d sit in and watch his session. I was slightly disappointed to see he is actually sitting with three other little boys (the ones he runs around with before they start the session) and they are being quite disruptive. Davies was no more or less to blame than any of the other three but I was a bit disheartened by it. I don’t know whether I am deluding myself slightly on his behaviour or whether as this is actually his only experience of being in a group without my controlling presence it is unfair to judge him on it but I noted that the women split the four of them up into different teams. Whatever the reason for it, it makes me all the more relieved that I *do* control most of his time with others and that I won’t be learning at a parents evening next year that his education is being compromised and his behaviour is considered a problem in a classroom situation. Made me realised that I could so easily be waving off a child I considered to be a little angel each morning to terrorise teachers and other children while learning nothing and then coming home and being lovely again!
As I was loading the children into the car (and giving him a bit of an ear bashing about not messing about and paying attention in future!) the woman parked behind me appeared and asked if I was Home Schooling (she had noted my EO car sticker and written the number down off of it). She said she had looked into it before she had children and could we have a chat about it sometime. I explained that my two are still pre school age but I am LC for Sussex for EO and run a local group so even if I couldn’t help with practical experience I could certainly point her in the right direction or give her relevant information and reassurance. Will obviously talk about it more next week.
Right off to start that tidying…
Now you know why we are changing the party location 😉
Comment by Chris — 15 July 2005 @ 4:06 pm
Good grief, I’m not THAT bad 🙂 And I really won’t be checking the kids beds. I’ve blogged, BTW:-)
Comment by Joyce — 15 July 2005 @ 5:39 pm
Changed party location??? First I’ve heard of it.
Comment by Joyce — 15 July 2005 @ 5:40 pm
are you? have I missed something?!
Can you *really* sell sanitary protection on ebay? rofl if you do. I’ve long given up tidying/cleaning the house specially for anyone, even my parents. If Joyce were coming though, well … !!
Comment by Sarah — 15 July 2005 @ 8:47 pm
Oooh another recruit 🙂
Comment by Jenny — 15 July 2005 @ 9:01 pm
Hello
Freya absolutely loves her jigsaw and spent an hour with me putting it together then on her own making the characters have adventures on it! Yes a toy that actually does what it says on the box! Thank you very much, it even inspired her to get out 2 more jigsaws so that we could cover the entire red rug with jigsawness. Thanks to that I had just the kind of quality time with her that I was talking with you about (the craft kits conversation). So how pleased was I?!
Also… aaarrrrgggh we should and could have offered you lunch, it just didn’t register that that’s what your schedule was. Sorry! Glad you got to meet J, and even gladder he was reasonably sociable!
Comment by Ali — 15 July 2005 @ 11:17 pm
yeah was nice to meet J – he was pretty much *exactly* as I’d imagine actually. Need to let you meet my bloke too now to see if he lives up to expectations – although you do of course know *exactly* what he looks like!
Chris – you seriously changed the venue of the party due to excess santitary protection products? 😉
Sarah – I think I might have to try and sell it now, just for fun – look out for the pics on flickr!
Comment by Nic — 15 July 2005 @ 11:27 pm
I think the party is now at Alison’s parents’ house. It is about the same distance from the hotel to their’s as to us, just in the opposite direction.
Comment by Chris — 16 July 2005 @ 11:10 am
doesn’t that defeat the object of it being a housewarming?! Or has the object changed too? 😉
Comment by Sarah — 17 July 2005 @ 4:02 pm
So were you going to get us a house-warming present then? It’s turned into a divorce party…
Comment by Chris — 17 July 2005 @ 7:03 pm
ah, I’ll buy you a divorce present instead, in that case …
Comment by Sarah — 18 July 2005 @ 12:56 am