Didn’t win the lottery….

So I guess the magic only works for those who work for their living 😆

Had a lovely lie in this morning but still woke tired due to more vivid dreams – oh and possibly that bottle and another glass for luck I drank last night 😳

Davies played X Box all morning, Tarly sat and spectated or played around him. She had a bit of a bash at the marble game at Ali’s yesterday and had already slightly improved in her control of it from the previous time. She still doesn’t quite get the idea of a game but she has at least mastered getting whatever it is on screen she is controlling to do what she wants it to do. She has got a Hello Kitty and the Barbie horses game stashed away for her birthday so I guess we’ll be drawing up some sort of X box rota in December 🙄 I walked to the post office to post a parcel stopping to smile lots at our neighbour ;-). I wore my new DMs though, without socks (will I ever learn) so I have big blisters on my heels and had to limp all the way home again. 😳

We had lunch, I cooked some flapjacks and then we headed over to Chris and Julie’s for the afternoon. Chris was in the middle of painting the fascia with saddolin on their new extension so we left him to it and went for a walk with Julie and all the children in some nearby fields. There were massive hay bales in the field so we all had a go at sitting on top of them before walking back. The children sat and played (noisily) while we drank tea and then we came home via McD’s.

A fairly quiet day all round really. I’ve been really trying to exercise my new ideas with Tarly and so far so good 🙂 I’ll blog about it all more maybe next week and I have some library books to read about positive parenting and some websites to further explore, but coupled with some really interesting chats with various mothers the last couple of days I am feeling very positive about dealing with potential challenges in a good way.

Away tomorrow and then we are booked in for four days worth of films for film week next week but I will be back! 🙂