Now because I’m trying to push that youtube clip down a bit

because it is cocking up my template I’ll blog about today now. Also because we have house guests arriving later and I have not remotely prepared for them so I’ll not get the chance to blog later.

I didn’t do a lot this morning, mainly because I got up really late (I wasn’t actually asleep, I was in the middle of a very interesting dream that I wanted to know the end of and trying to get back to sleep to get back into it but the children kept coming and hassling me to get up so in the end I gave in and got up!). They had three bowls of cereal each – we’ve had a poor selection of cereal and I’d been food shopping yesterday and stocked up again so they were celebrating! 😆

We went to group which was good. They both did some sticking of leaves onto paper which is The Law for Home Educated children at this time of year 😆 They did plenty of running around pretending to be Wallace and Gromit which at MM has the added surrealty of joining in a Dr Who game which somehow seems to effortlessly integrate Wallace and Gromit. 😆 They also did some of the (banned by me) clambering up and down a wall with railings with a big drop on one side, Tarly doing so in bare feet. 🙄 I like group a lot but I am still struggling with my own ‘what will people think’ feelings about large amounts of Home Ed children all together and as it is situated next to a school which has it’s lunchhour in the playground coinciding with group I am very aware of my bare foot, non coat wearing offspring running around dicing with death climbing up walls and messing with things like broken glass and old tins while brandishing hockey sticks in full view of the dinner ladies! My issue I know but I remain convinced that it will one day be one of my children splashed across the Daily Mail to illsutrate just why all children really should be in school :lol:. So the kids got the full lecture on social services and how I am failing in my role as their protector and carer if I don’t prevent them from doing things which could injure them, particularly in full view of people who might report us! It is such a double standard really as if I’m honest if the area was not overlooked then I probably wouldn’t have such issues with it and I hate that about myself.

I had a nice time anyway. Ali brought bath bomb making stuff so I made one of those and heckled her while she showed other people how to do it 😆 and made some paper planes – oh and thank you Allie, I was called ‘Nic’ all day :-).

We came home, I wrapped several kids’ dvds I’ve sold on ebay and we walked to the post office to send them. Chatted with David (thank you neighbour) on the way, talked about crossing roads and looked at all the many flowers which are still in full bloom even though I’m sure they are out of season to be so. Davies and Scarlett had several ‘races’ to various points and I noticed something again which I realised last week which is that Scarlett is actually easily on a par with Davies and is probably faster than him, certainly over short distances. No idea which one of them this reflects on, or indeed if they should be much difference between their speed at their age but interesting anyway.

They were indeed well behaved in the post office so got their choice of sweets – Tarly chose a 5 pence pack of fizzy things, Davies chose a 31p pack of Tooty Fruity sweets which I told him I used to have when I was little along with the Tooty Mintys which they also used to make. I didn’t tell him about the time I ate a whole pack of Tooty Fruitys (which were definitely in bigger packets when I was small) and promptly threw them all back up again in a very pretty pile of vomit incase it put him off them. I can only have been about Tarly’s age but I recall my Mum’s horror to this day! 😆

Since we’ve been home I’ve further disturbed their eating for the day by giving them a late and large lunch and then a bowl full of fruit each for tea just now. They are playing with geomags and trying to compose myself to go and sort out sleeping arrangements and tidy away various things in the playroom ready for a houseful for the next couple of days.