Magical

I was a mistress of efficiency this morning, getting loads of washing on, getting everyone breakfasted and dressed and making playdough before the Wonderpets had finished. But – disaster – we only had a dribble of salt left (key playdough ingredient) so as we needed to pop to Sainsburys to get money from the cashpoint and petrol we left slightly earlier to get salt too and took the rest of the playdough making ingredients with us.

It was not very busy in Sainsburys but for some reason it was really noisy, which meant the children spoke REALLY LOUDLY to fill the space :roll:. We’d looked at the magazines to see if the new W&G one was there as Ady had told Davies it was due out this week and he could have it. It wasn’t there but the 1st episode of the new Shaun the Sheep comic was so Davies chose to have that instead of W&G and Tarly chose a Barbie one. I used to buy the kids loads of magazines (along with the loads of everything I used to buy 😉 ) but stopped as they are about the same price as a book. However as an occassional treat I don’t mind as they do really get value for money out of them, doing all the puzzles and mazes, colouring in and getting Ady and I to read them cover to cover for them, any posters get carefully pulled out and stuck on their bedroom walls and it really has become about the magazine rather than whatever cheap and nasty novelty is stuck to the front page with tape that will rip the front page in half when you try and remove it.

So they were content with their magazines, we’d walked round and got all the bits we needed, we’d chatted about things but as I say they were being noisy, not naughty or disruptive, just noisy. I saw the checkout woman size them up and decide they were probably old enough to have gone back to school after the Easter holidays today so I was waiting for some sort of question, but aside from a slight narrowing of her eyes at me when she asked if I was collecting Active Kids vouchers for schools there was no mention of anything. 😆 On to get petrol and then to collect Lucy, Rebecca and Richard.

I did lots of not very coherant starting sentences and then being interupted by D or S, or needing to concentrate to turn left and then forgetting what I was about to say but Lucy seemed capable of normal speech and didn’t try to convince me that children of 4 could be living in extreme locations in some parts fo the world today, so that was good :). MM seemed very quiet althouh I realised as we left that was mostly because everyone else sat outside in the sunshine. That was fine though because it meant Richard and Rebecca got to see everything as shown round by Davies and Scarlett without too many other people about. I made some very illfated playdough which mostly got crumbled until I swept it up at the end (ah well!) , there must be something in the altitude of the hall because I’ve yet to make playdough there which doesn’t come out at utterly the wrong consistency :lol:. The children had a good time and Lucy and I got to chat a fair bit too.

We came back here where the toy animals and some plastic click together toys were got out and played with and then Ady came home. He has a hospital appointment for an ultra sound scan for a testicle lump which we’ve both been worrying about for about a month since he first found the lump. Lucy had offered to stay here with D&S so I could go with him. We drove to the hospital, found a parking space, walked into the radiology department (having washed our hands with the special Layla foam on the way in they have there with big red signs for everyone to use to stop the spread of superbugs :shock:), barely sat down before they called him in and I got to smile smugly at how cold the gel is they squirt on you for ultra sounds :lol:. After lots of moving the scanner thing about the sonographer pronounced it NOT cancer and in her opinion something connected with the vasectomy (again!). So nothing further to fret over. Phew! We were back at the carpark paying machine and had been so speedy that we didn’t even have to pay as it allows you 15 minutes dropping off / driving round to find a space time before you are charged. Hurrah for the nhs eh?!

We came home and Davies was very keen to hear the prognosis. He’d wanted to know where we were going so I’d told him, properly. Scarlett didn’t question us going out or pay any attention to what I was telling Davies but he had lots of questions and I have a firm policy of answering anything he asks as truthfully as I can. He had obviously been really worried while we’d gone as he came dashing over to ask about it and asked again later tonight too. I assured him that I would tell him if there was anything to worry about and that I promised there was nothing wrong. I hope he believed me and I hope the answering questions policy gives him confidence to trust that I am telling him the truth…

I ran Lucy and co home while Ady fed the children, then Davies got changed and I walked him round to Beavers before plugging my headphones in (Jamiroquai and INXS) and going on a brisk walk. I stopped midway for some shopping so I was weight bearing for half the walk too and I shall walk into work for Reading group tomorrow night too so I’ve made a good start on getting walking again already. 🙂

Not sure what we’re doing tomorrow yet. I’m up for a day out somewhere but if the children are happy to then we’ll stay home and laze in the garden. Or of course there is always the beach….;)