Had a lovely lie in this morning and woke to find the rest of the family watching Little Shop of Horrors for the third time. As recommended by at least two friends (Merry and Sarah have definitely mentioned it as one Davies might like) we got it from Tesco DVD rental and sure enough he fell in love straight away. 🙂 I got dinner cooking and sorted out the various shopping I’d got yesterday, finally completed our tax credits form ready to send back right on the deadline and we headed off to the beach.
A testing day today with the children; lack of sleep and uspet about Malice generally are making us all fairly unpleasant to be around and Tarly has had me questioning my anti-smacking policy while Davies has had me questioning whether our relationship is worth the compromise of 24 hours a day contact that Home Education offers. Sure it will pass, but I’m being utterly selfish in my own mourning and not making any allowances for anyone else. Fortunately Ady is being excellent (probably terrified 😉 ) and doing lots of backing me up, spiriting the children away and entertaining them and generally being lovely. 🙂
We wandered round the market for a while before heading up to the beach. I had a complete crisis about Beachwatch which involves rallying a team of volunteers to clean the beach as it is already very clean, which is of course A Good Thing but makes a slightly daunting task. Scarlett and I struggled to collect any nice pebbles for Malice’s grave while Davies sat adventurously on a very close to the sea rock while the waves crashed around him and Ady took lots of pictures. Some on flickr – can’t be bothered to insert them into this post.
Then we headed over to Chris and Julie’s for a couple of hours this afternoon. The children played really nicely although Maisie was feeling ill so she spent most of the time snuggled on the sofa. McDonalds with internet survey luncheon vouchers for the children on the way home and then Barbie Swan Lake on dvd before bed for them.
Tomorrow Ady is back to work and we have nothing planned, actually with the exception of Lucy, Julie and I getting together on Wednesday we have nothing else planned all week so I might just get some of the various tasks I’ve been mentally compiling lists about completed.
Aww Nic, I’m sorry about Malice.
Comment by layla — 29 August 2006 @ 8:38 am
On a bad day my children have been known to affectionately (I hope 😉 ) call me ‘the mean green momma from outer space’, usually as I say something like ‘watch your tone of voice’ … hope your day is going well, anyway …
Comment by Sarah — 29 August 2006 @ 2:24 pm
On days like that I just tell myself that eventually they grow out of being strange creatures and turn into lovely children….
Comment by t-bird — 29 August 2006 @ 8:19 pm