Too. Damn. Hot.

And I don’t like it. 🙁

I’m sure there are many activities this is the perfect weather for but none of them involve sitting in a house with two tired, grumpy children when you are a tired grumpy grown up really.

Yesterday Davies and I were talking about birthdays and he started talking about his Wallace and Gromit birthday party. He’s been planning it for months so yesterday we got pen and paper and made a proper list, talked about the venue, the food, the games, the guest list and so on. It is still a whole 2 months until his birthday but as many of the people on his list will have to travel and probably stay overnight to attend it made sense to start initial planning now I suppose. So this morning I rang the venue we used for Home Ed group last year and we had our Halloween party at to see if it was free. The Saturday before his birthday also happens to be Ady and I’s 7th wedding anniversary so we went with that date. I’ve booked the venue, Davies went through the guest list with me again and made an invite which he insisted I started sending to people so we scanned in and emailed.

I’d not shown him how the scanner worked before so he sat quite interested in that for a while impressed with seeing his drawing suddenly appear on my laptop and then on flickr. We also got out a couple of snap it kits which we’d bought last time we were at the Science Museum and never looked at. They were OK although not as all singing and dancing as I think the children were expecting them to be really. We made the ones they coloured themselves so we can still make the preprinted ones. I think they were actually more interested in the folding that anything else so maybe I should look at some basic origami with them.

We also nipped into town this morning. I had a couple of items to return to a shop and we had a wander round for a while, got cakes for lunch and came home again.

I’ve been fairly short tempered with the whole world in general today and of course the children always react accordingly by giving me plenty to be shouty about 🙄

Davies had Badgers this evening, I sat in my very hot car and cooked for an hour but at least managed to finish the book for Reading group tomorrow which I have really struggled my way through. Badgers was held outside on the field infront of the hut due to the heat and as it was last but one session of the term they just played games really. I half watched and listened to some of it, they played charades, which I don’t think Davies has ever played before, and some rolling a ball between them and shouting something out game too. Funny to witness how quiet and bashful Davies can be in some situations given how rowdy and boisterous he can be in others. If I told them at Badgers how he’d stood at the front of that marquee at Kessingland they’d never believe me… I asked him earlier if he wanted to invite any of the other Badgers to his birthday party and he said no. He loves going and is always happy and says he’s enjoyed it but it is such a clear marker of how different a child he can be depending on circumstances and how the wrong situation for him at school could mark him out as, and no doubt eventually perpetuate for him to become, a completely different child over time.

Tomorrow I’d really like to shout less, be cooler and be cooler!