Told Ady I’d had a bad day today, but when he reminded me of some of the stuff we have done I realised it was actually not such a bad one after all!
I felt a bit like Snow White this morning in that I woke up sneezy. Also feeling generally blah although it hasn’t seemed to come to anything so not sure whether it was genuine illness or just me feeling ‘morningy’.
I made some bread and some rolls, Ady headed off to take back the slowcooker and then took Davies off wearing wellies up the downs to where they collect logs (a man who has a tree cutting / gardening business owns land up a lane where he brings all his waste and burns it down. He has always let Dad go there and chainsaw up logs as it simply saves him burning them), me and Davies made some bird seed and suet in tins bird feeders then me and Scarlett tied string to the tins and hung them on a tree outside. Scarlett wiped down the worktops (not hugely efficiently but it’s not really my strong point so who I am to criticise!) and they both played on the pcs.
They played with k’nex, did some drawing, watched Nightmare before Christmas, Flubber and Mary Poppins and we had some classic gender stereotyping activities when Ady and Davies played a rowdy game of keepie-uppie with a balloon in the hall while Scarlett and I sat in the lounge and I brushed her hair and put it into an elaborate plaited style, all the while tutting about the ‘noisy boys’ in the hall! 😉
My Mum appeared for an hour or so on her way to Tescos – she tried to persuade me to join her but I declined 😉 we’re heading over there for lunch tomorrow and Ady and Dad are going to fetch more logs in Dad’s van. Late afternoon was taken up with me getting very grumpy as Ady’s work laptop keeps knocking my laptop off of our wireless network so I tried to fiddle with some settings and ended up cocking the whole thing up so I couldn’t access the internet at all from my laptop. The children kept coming to ask me if they could go on the Nickjr site and I lost my temper with them and Ady and shut them all in the lounge together having yelled that they all complain they don’t see each other enough so why the hell were the children coming and hanging around me when I’m always with them!?!? . I eventually got it sorted by doing system restores on both laptops to yesterdays date which put all the settings back as they had been and got it working again, so I put my inner dragon back inside and pulled off Lovely Mummy again until bedtime!
Ady cooked a chinese takeaway style chicken curry with noodles for dinner in celebration of Chinese new year which I intended and failed to do something with the children on and we’ve watched back to back Friends on a sky channel all night. I was about to head off to bed at 10pm ish (Ady asleep on the sofa now) but the phone rang and it was my friend from NZ so we’ve just spent a happy hour on the phone catching up on each other’s lives. Feeling very motivated having spoken to her and ready to do further thinking and planning in our different life dreams.