Mixed day really. We had to be out fairly early to meet Jenny to view an alternate venue for weekly Home Ed group. It was not suitable but spawned a couple of other ideas (such as seeing if our current venue is available at other times) which we’ll look into.
Left there and whizzed over to Sainsburys for a few bits including lunch and then home via the library to return some books – for the first time in ages we currently have NO library books in the house – thank you book bag for the victory of keeping them all together in one place in the house and curing the curse of the one lost book which is under someone’s bed! Didn’t get any more out as I was doing a book people order and nearly clicked to order something when in the back of my mind an alarm bell rang and upon checking the bookcase I realised that yes, that set was already among our collection, as was two of the other titles on the order. So I shut that window down and have resolved to actually start looking at some of the books we already own with the children!
The library round up worked quite well actually in that we sat together and looked at all of them before they went back so before 9am (and before I’d even been online this morning!) we had looked at books about fish, nocturnal animals, mammals and cows.
This afternoon the kids veered between playing really well (they build Candyland with sticklebricks, dressed up, played with polly pocket, made some mini beast window stickers) and trying to kill each other 🙁 The most annoying thing was that Tarly was being really irritating but got a rise out of Davies every time who was then in turn driving me mad by whinging and whining and running off in dramatic fashions like some sort of flouncing diva. I eventually seperated them and they then cried cos they wanted to be together! Urgh!
I gave up on trying to actually do anything ‘with’ them as it just seemed to enhance the competition and instead gathered up the two bin liners full of outgrown clothes, photographed them all and have all but finished getting them listed on ebay. 🙂 Whatever doesn’t sell can either go to Julie for Jack (but I’m going to have a go at selling it first as I was really pissed off to discover she has gladly accepted all D’s cast offs before then sold them on!!) or the charity shop. Most of it is very well worn actually, they have gone from growing out of clothes before they are worn to wearing clothes out before they’ve grown – which is heartening in one way I guess!
Had an email from the CV lady to say they had only had 3 cvs to do this week so one is in the post to me 🙁 was hoping for more like 10, but as they want it back for Monday and I’m going away at lunchtime tomorrow until Sunday evening it’s possibly for the best! We missed a ‘too big for the letterbox’ packet today which could well be it I suppose. It is going to be a slow burn this CV writing as they are a new company themselves and couldn’t really start to build their business without people to write them already on board and were dubious about taking people on without having the CVs to write so hopefully it will all come together soon and we’ll be getting the volume coming through.
Must confess to being quite irrationally shouty today but my excuses were hormones, tiredness (Tarly has been sleeping through the night much better of late but has a new tendancy to rise at 5am ish. She ends up in with us for an hour or so til Ady gets up for work which means I do get an hour or so between 6 and 7 but it is still taking a toll – and staying up til gone midnight myself probably doesn’t help!) and them being very sibling-y today and quite loud themselves. I did try a couple of times to engage with them and actually do something but it ended up with them both talking at once all the time and just did my head in so I went back to my ebaying!
In the middle of all this Ros texted to share Layla and Si’s exciting news so that perked me up a fair bit 🙂 🙂
Ady was having some sort of nightmare day at work trying to sort out some H&S issue with a Russian temp so had a very bizzare text conversation with him thinking up Russian words and associations to help him make sense of what the bloke was saying! He was late home from the dentists so Tarly took herself off to bed and fell asleep, Davies followed not long afterwards.
Tomorrow I need to go and collect the parcel from the post office, pack up for the weekend and we’re heading off to Barbara’s for the weekend sometime around lunchtime. Dad has the joy of house and cat sitting but I think his skills will not quite extend to blog sitting too, so I guess I’ll be back on Monday 🙂 Be good now, and Thing 1 and Thing 2? You know what to do 😉
You know if you ask nicely enough, you may be allowed access to the computer here to satisfy any blogging urges 😉
Drive safely.
Comment by Barbara — 25 August 2005 @ 11:44 pm
Have a nice weekend, then. You could do joint blogging with Barbara 🙂
Comment by Joyce — 26 August 2005 @ 6:22 am
Have a lovely time 🙂
Comment by Jenny — 26 August 2005 @ 9:27 am