Must issue myself onblog to do lists more often 🙂
I managed almost everything on my list except for my slightly ambitious and actually not necessary completion of all 3 CVs and deciding what to wear tomorrow night. Let’s face it that will be sorted by this time tomorrow regardless cos I’ll be sat there wearing it so I will think about that in the morning.
Aswell as the below I also managed to do various other online tasks including booking my pitch at Kessingland and posting to the camps forum (nudge in your direction if you are on it too as it’s a bit dead over there and we’re running close to the wind), organise further socialising for this week and next by way of email, IM and text (I’m so 21st century 😉 ) and have an almost constant IM chat with Ali about every aspect of our respective days – spookily as I typed her name she popped up again with an IM window and is now distracting me from blogging 😉
I even managed some good parenting inbetween all these bursts of housewifely efficiency. Tarly and I did some cuddling and reading together, Davies and I sat and he dictated details about his created character for the W&G competition for me. We watched some Science type programmes on Discovery Kids together and chatted about it and there was a long (and loud :roll:) story telling session with them both narrating at times both playing instruments to tell the story at others – sort of a badly tuned Peter and the Wolf crossed with War of the Worlds if you will! 🙂 The children were particularly self sufficient today although that may have been more because I leapt to attention whenever they did ask for something. I was called upon to get bananas for them, fill their cups with water and admire, enthuse about and praise their various efforts as required. There was the geomag border round the car playmat, the picture of King Julien from Madagascar (pictured below) and finally and not to take anything away from it at all, the sock puppet show presented by Davies and Scarlett. They asked if they could make sock puppets out of some socks so I sorted out some old ones for them under close instructions that these and only these items of clothing were available for defacing and was then invited into the playroom to enjoy and admire their show. And actually it was both cute and funny with almost a plot line and clear practising of roles and script. 🙂 Favourite bit was by far Scarlett who’s sock was cooking dinner sort of milling around and just saying ‘cook, cook, cook, cook, cook, cook’ over and over again. Then she had to call Davies’ socks to tell them dinner was ready and addressed everyone as ‘Babes’ which also really made me laugh. Love those kids 🙂
Tomorrow we have Ros coming over which we’re all looking forward to so I might do a spot of baking in the morning 🙂 Which reminds me the slow cooker chicken was chickentastic – if you have a slow cooker, and if you eat poultry maybe you should try the baked chicken (two things there – one, that was meant to be said in the same way as the opening bit of The A Team and two, every time I type chicken I have to correct it cos I type children 🙂 )
Oh and last but by no means least my Dad is fine too 🙂 Apparently the worst bit was them trying to take blood, he is still staggered that anaesthetic actually worked on *him*, his heart jumped into place on the first jolt (apparently they give you up to 5 goes to get it sorted) and he fully intends going back to work tomorrow despite having been told not to lift so much as a kettle for 48 hours… ah well. Glad he’s OK 🙂
I’ve never done chicken on the bone in the slow cooker as I am obsessed that the core temp may not get hot enough to kill the nasties. But if you are all still salmonella free in 48 hours, I may give it a go 😉 And what I REALLY want to know is what you had with the chicken, in the end
Comment by Joyce — 25 April 2006 @ 10:12 pm
Ady calls her Babes, doesn’t he?
Sounds like a good day 🙂
Comment by Alison — 25 April 2006 @ 11:32 pm
yeah he does actually you’re right Alison, have just heard him doing it and hadn’t really registered it before.
Joyce, still here and still not vomiting so I reckon it’s safe 😉 another 24 hours to confirm and you’re home free with the slow cooker chicken! We had it with very small jacket potatoes (cos small potatoes were all I had) with butter and grated cheese on. It would have been nicer with new potatoes or even saute potatoes with garlic and herbs on actually. Will definitely do it again though, it was lovely.
Comment by Nic — 26 April 2006 @ 5:13 pm
And VEGETABLES!!!! Did you not have *any* veg with it?!! rofl 😉
Comment by Sarah — 27 April 2006 @ 9:12 am