I fully rewarded myself for all the hard work feeling like Snow White living in a house full of little people yesterday with large quantities of white wine. Ali caught me on IM for a first flush of giddyness and general nonsense around 7pm and I enjoyed the cyber equivalent of a girlie night out with Alison way way past midnight! Scarlett joined us around twelve which put an end to any further alcohol consumption on my part which was probably just as well given how my head felt this morning anyway! 😳
We have this new plan to become avid car boot sale shoppers, getting the sort of bargains ebay customers can only dream about, kitting ourselves out fully for camping in June all for under a tenner and finding treasures like books, toys and dvds for the children for mere pence. So we headed out to the local one around 10am, but it was rather a disappointment with a handful of stall which seemed to only be selling bulk purchases of batteries and lighters, dodgy soft porn dvds or pansies (which given Ady’s job are something we are not short of anyway! The pansies that is, not the dvds). We were due to my parents for around 11am so we walked round the charity shops in the nearby village to where they live. Ady got a Watch With Mother B&W video which he is trying to pretend is for the children but we all know the truth and the kids had 20p each to fritter away 😉 Tarly got a fairy on a stand version of those toys where you press a button on the base and it collapses and stands up again. Davies got a Woody from Toy Story complete with removable hat. Tarly’s fairy broke before we got back to the car, but it did allow a quick lesson in how those toys actually work which was something I’d always wondered! 😉
Then we went to my parents, me and Mum headed up to Sainsburys to get some lunch, came back and ate it and the kids played on the piano and hounded Frazer (who is Fiona-less this weekend as she is away visiting family). They were both really tired and whingey though so I ended up doing jigsaws with them for ages and then reading them stories, which always make me wonder in what way it is a weekend really 🙄 So we left there around 4pm and Ady and Davies had an hour or so doing stuff in our garden before tea, bath and bed for the children.
Just before bed we had a discussion about wax, sealing wax and old fashioned seals on letters. My Dad has a stick of the wax and a stamp somewhere so I must ask him to dig it out so they can see it better but we recreated it a bit with a candle and a pound coin so they both enjoyed that. Then I taught Davies how to play scissors, paper, stone (a game which brings back many happy and not entirely child appropriate memories of playing it very late one night with nakedness at stake 😉 ) and promised I would indeed play it with him again tomorrow. Scarlett and I have been playing clapping games recently too and she’s getting quite good so I must google and see if I can find some more chants to go with them. Oh and I read them Princess and the pea, Gingerbread Man, Jack and the Beanstalk and a couple of other fairy stories while they had their bath that they joined in with so we’ve covered reading pretty well today. 🙂
Right, off for a hair of the dog 😉