And in other news…

Ady mostly worked from home today, which is not always necessarily condusive to happy family harmony 🙄

Davies played Xbox which he got through yet another couple of tricky bits of – he’s long since left me behind now. How do they know how to do these things without being able to even read the instructions? Feel like my parents used to be with the video remote control 😳 All sorts of maturity milestones passed me by without me feeling at all like a grown up – mortgage, marriage, management, maternity, motherhood – I did ’em all and still felt like a teenager, but show me my six year old who has some innate programming to press X and A at the same time to get the porridge gun when I still hold the bloody controller upside down and I can see very clearly into blue rinsedom! 😆

I sent both children to get themselves dressed today having sorted their rooms out and put away enough clean washing for them to have clothes hanging up or folded and put away. I could have probably predicted what they’d have chosen and it made me smile. Tarly chose her susumama skirt which she just adores – wish I’d just bought her one in every colour for her entire 3-4 wardrobe and a gymboree top I got her from the NCT sale which is a pink polo neck printed with black hat boxes and cats – so Tarly 🙂 Davies chose a new pair of jeans which are size 5-6 but swim on him and his W&G t shirt. 🙂

I had a plan to make some flapjacks but upon attempting to assemble the ingredients (all four of them :lol:) I realised I was missing two so had to abandon that idea!

Lucy, R & R arrived then. We’d strewn all sorts of toys about the place including the brio, the geomags and a variety of plastic animals so somehow they shoehorned themselves in and I made some food. Lucy and I always seem to have massive amounts to say to each other – clearly catching up still on those 15 wilderness years between being 17 and 32 😆 which fairly understandably can be annoying to the children who use their best attempts to annoy us back in return – today it was the turn of my two 😆 They did all shake down eventually and the main relationship which is taking rather more time to develop is the Tarly : Rebecca one which should have been the most obvious but is slower given their different personalities, birth order and temperament. However as they are both rather like their respective mothers I imagine over time they will become great mates who I hope will both gain from spending time in each others’ company. 🙂 They seem to make headway every time we see each other and today spent some time being girly together which was nice.

Davies asked for the foam blocks out and built a really quite good pyramid which he then wanted to furnish accordingly, so I dug out a couple of Egypt books for him to look through and some pens and paper suggesting he do some cave painting type pictures for the walls and recommending earthy colours. He did a strip of browns, yellows, oranges and reds which he put inside his pyramid but lost interest before I could suggest mummifying one of his cuddly Gromits! 😆 Ady had come and gone in the middle of all this and taken refuge upstairs.

Lucy left, Davies plugged himself back into the Xbox and I set about collecting together all the various scattered library books around the house. I had several parcels to go to the post office, the pile of books and a walk I needed to take to remain on track for my three walks a week target so I thought I’d do an early circuit taking in the post office and the library. And not just to rip page 27 out of as many books as I could in an act of bitter revenge for not getting the job either ;-). Just as I was pulling books off the shelf in search of ‘Investigating the weather’ the phone rang. I ignored it and my mobile in my pocket rang so I felt obliged to answer it and it was the library offering me the job.

I went off for my walk with a celebratory air and a spring in my step, sorted my parcels, got a renewal form for Davies’ passport (where did those five years go then?), went to the library, smiled at lot at my colleagues to be 🙂 and picked up two second hand books – one children’s one on Germany and We need to talk about Kevin for just 40pence which I have read but like the idea of owning if for no other reason than to lend out with my recommendation. 😆 On the way home my exercising was tested further which amused me as I had been pondering why my pace seemed quicker than when Ady and I had walked on Sunday and decided it was due to me being mildly asthmatic and even a brisk walk being enough to make me slightly wheezy let alone trying to talk at the same time. Julie rang for a chat lon my homeward dash bit of the walk which I normally try and speed up slightly for but had to considerably slow down so I wasn’t giving her the equivalent of a dodgy heavy breather phonecall 😆

Once home again I spread my news across the www and spoke to my parents. I also told Davies and Scarlett. Davies was fairly philosophical about it – he mainly wanted to know who would look after them and where – and was quite happy with all the possible childcare options I told him about. Tarly, unpredictably threw herself at me and insisted she didn’t want me to leave her ever! Which makes me all the more confident that I need to change my start date for the job from her fourth birthday morning which is the provisional date! How to mess with your child’s head in one easy lesson! 🙄 But as she is actually the one I’ll worry about the effect on the least and Davies has promised me tonight he will look after her (bless!) and we have well over a month to prepare and practise I am sure they will manage just fine for the one and a half days a week I am going to get to put grown up clothes on, tell people to ‘shhhh!’ and have no one address me as Mummy. 🙂