I worked all day today – the days I work always seem sooooo much longer than the days I don’t – possibly because I am actually up earlier but this morning feels a million miles away.
Ady left at some ungodly hour as he was in Peterborough (or as he calls it Merryland) today and wantd to get back at a decent time, so I was woken at 626am after he’d already gone by Tarly. Fortunately she made enough noise to also wake Davies so he went downstairs with her instead :lol:. I was having a very odd dream in which I was doing some sort of storytelling from memory of a story of my choice to a wide audience of children at work, except work seemed to have morphed into some sort of Home Ed camp so I knew all the children who would be attending. It was all a bit Apprentice-style too with one of us going to get fired for not being good enough so there was fierce competition between me and the other storytellers with us all having to choose a classic tale (I’d chosen The Hare and The Tortoise but had really wanted The Three Little Pigs but someone else had already chosen it) and then tell it from memory with our own interpretations. I wasn’t worried about that and had some good comedy asides up my sleeve including IIRC a song and dance routine and plenty of audience participation, but then I realised some of my colleagues had made masks and decided that would complete my story to perfection as I could nominate audience members to play the roles if I had masks, so I was trying to covertly make masks but kept getting interupted – for real, by the children coming to ask if they could eat Easter eggs and the alarm going off on snooze every 8 minutes. All rather surreal :lol:.
I managed to get us all breakfasted and dressed and a load of washing done and hung out before we headed off to collect Lucy, R & R and then drop everyone back here before going on to work.
Work was really busy and I enjoyed knowing what I was doing and being busy. The admin and organisation side of the job really appeals to me, as does the constant flow of people when it’s busy and today was one of those days. I had a bit of training and enjoyed feeling part of the team on one of those early summer days when everyone is feeling spring in the air and on good form. It was a nice working day. 🙂
I’d worn a jumper which I was baking in for the morning so was very delighted to find a linen top at the charity shop on my lunch break which I changed in to in the shop. I also found a box of metal puzzles for Davies for a quid which went down well when I got home.
Lucy, R & R came into the library in the afternoon which was nice. I love it when people I know come in 🙂 and I gave Rebecca the same training session D&S have had to enable them to zap their own books – unfortunately the security tag on one of the books wasn’t playing ball so a colleague had to come and sort that out which rather ruined my expertise :lol:.
I got home and Ady had already been home an hour or so and cleared up from Dad being here all afternoon, fed the children and done the washing up, so that was nice not to have to come home to (although less nice I suspect for him to have to come home to having left at 530am!). I’d got out a load of book and cds for Tarly which she fell on with delight but decided not to listen to tonight in favour of a story with me. Davies and I did some of the metal puzzles and then the children went outside with Ady who was mowing the lawn and cutting the hedges while I sat inside and sneezed and started reading a book for reading group next week.
The children came in and washed, cleaned teeth, got in pjs and we snuggled up and watched Wonderpets together with them both on my lap. I brushed Tarly’s hair (she’s still loving that!), Davies brushed my hair (not quite so gently!) and then I read Tarly some stories and Ady read some to Davies.
The children were full of tales of what they’d been up to today and I do really miss them when I am at work for a whole day, a half day is so much better. But on the flip side I think that whole day off from dealing with squabbles, getting food and drink whilst doing grown up stuff and being a person other than Mummy actually does me the world of good once a week. Like so many things that have cropped up mostly unplanned in the last few years it seems to have panned out pretty well. There are always bad days (I had one just last week!) and there could of course be tweaks in the arrangements but certainly today they had a great morning with Lucy and co and a good afternoon with my Dad and Ady was home in time to feed them tea at a decent hour followed by time with him in the garden and cuddles and stories with me at bedtime. Not how I’d want us to be spending every day but certainly a nice way to spend one day a week at least :).
What a pity it was only a dream, I’d have loved to watch your story!
Comment by Lucy — 13 April 2007 @ 9:20 am
it was an omen; you are supposed to perform for us all at camp 🙂
Tell Ady to pop in for a cuppa next time 🙂
Comment by Merry — 13 April 2007 @ 9:39 am