so sang Scarlett along with which song today?
Illness continues for Davies, who has coughed himself sick twice today 🙁 but remains on good form otherwise and has eaten loads and gone to bed early so should hopefully be on the road to recovery tomorrow.
I was off to work this morning, loving working Saturday mornings instead of afternoons – it’s far busier in the morning which makes the four hour shift go quicker and I still feel like I totally get to have a weekend once work is finished. 🙂 I’ve been there nearly 11 months now and have yet another training course coming up next week so had the pre-training briefing and a brief chat about how I’m doing generally (well apparently :)). This was good actually as I was a bit downhearted about the whole work thing on Thursday so a good shift today perked me up again :).
I came home and Ady had had a very productive morning clearing space in the garage to put the chiller in, doing bantam run stuff (we’ve decided they are just too small and vulnerable to totally free range in the garden – even Candle would have a go at them let alone other predators, also they would be easily lost, so the run we already have is plenty big enough for normal day to day pecking about with occassional free run when we are in the garden with them) while Scarlett played with the toy animals and Davies had a pj day playing x box.
I worked out the menu for the month and headed off to Tescos and Scarlett elected to come with me. She hadn’t planned to but decided to join me at the last minute and I’m really glad she did. We were out for well over two hours and had a browse round the toys at M&S (birthday present buying for a certain pair of siblings we’ll be seeing next week, one of whom has had his birthday already but we have a very specific gift in mind for and the other we are rather more open to ideas on), the toys at Tesco and a very lengthy look round the clothing. They had rails and rails of sale clothing and Scarlett managed to dig out five dresses for next summer for a quid each. She has wafted around in them all evening and one of them isn’t really very her – an old fashioned pale blue broderie anglaise affair, so she decided that could be a nightie and has worn it to bed. The others are more primary coloured and Scarlett-y. She spent the first half of the time sitting in the trolley before deciding to get out and help. And help she did 🙂 She did loads of counting things in, working out how many more we needed of things if I wanted six and she’d already put four in the trolley, checking for dented tins, looking at the words on things (she learnt to ‘read’ thick and medium on the bread and ‘chilean chardonney’ and ‘australian white wine’ while helping today 😆 obviously she knew the difference by taste already ;)). She was a pleasure and a delight to be with and I really enjoyed the whole trip. She helped me load the trolley onto the conveyor belt and actually finished off loading it while I started packing, then went and sat on a chair at the end of the checkouts. I commented in one of the posts below about how she is suddenly coming into her own and being more of a participant in stuff in her own right rather than a tagging along younger sibling. The next couple of months will see her starting at Badgers and Rainbows too aswell as turning five and whilst she still has way more moments of irrationality, trickiness and just being challenging than Davies has ever managed I am starting to realise that this is more simply a part of who she is (and Davies is not) than anything to do with her age. Clearly they will mellow (or get worse :lol:) as she gets older but it’s been lovely this week spending odd bits of time one to one with her and realising how well she is doing, how she is thriving and how clearly the whole Home Ed decision is working out really well for her as an individual too aswell as something we just do as a family :). Love that girl :).
Once home we had the much loathed task of unloading the car and putting it all away so I did complicated manouveres with the cars in and out of the drive and unloaded it all through the garage into the kitchen before doing the same thing with the cars in reverse. It went away fairly quickly with Ady helping though and I suddenly realised that aside from a tepid cup of tea at 1030 breaktime this morning (I thought the kettle was hot from just boiling, it was actually hot from about 830 with someone else’s first cup of tea of the day) I’d not had anything to eat or drink all day. So with it being nearly 6pm by that point and having worked a full morning, done a months food shop and some Excellent Mothering I felt perfectly justified in delegating cooking the children and later our own tea to Ady while I drank tea and then wine and watched X Factor. :). Ady and Davies had had a grand X box play off while Tarly and I had been out – apparently Davies has the killer tactic of tickling Ady if it looks like he is going to win any of the more competitive games. Ady and Davies don’t often manage to meet in the middle of something they both enjoy – it is usually one of them making an effort to do something the other enjoys so they can spend time together (which they do a lot but it seems a shame that someone is always compromising for the sake of it) so that was nice that they had a couple of hours that they both seemed to like :).
X Factor followed by bath followed by lovely steak, chips, onion rings, peas, pepper sauce and Ady’s special garlic bread with lots of wine more than compensated for lack of food the rest of the day. The children went off to bed clutching their hot water bottles, which certainly seem to have helped Davies to sleep, a wise investment :).
Yesterday on the way home from Fishbourne Davies was asking me questions about the war which I did my best to answer. I’ve got a whole load of books from work today to go through with him tomorrow but as usual what he would really like is some films. Any suggestions for either made for kids, or kid suitable films about the war? We’ve watched Carrie’s War which he liked and I’m even wondering about Goodnight Sweetheart if it’s available on dvd but any recommendations from those of you who have done WW1 and 2 in the past would be gratefully recieved. 🙂
It isn’t a film, but both of ours loved the BBC adaptation of Johnny and the Bomb. It’s got the added attraction of time travel!
Comment by Allie — 27 October 2007 @ 11:20 pm
Tarly really is going through one of those big changes, amazing how she has developed over the past year.
War stuff: The Evacuation series was good – might be stuff on CBBC website still?
F managed to watch most of Mrs Miniver with me and it was surprisingly educational, in that it generated loads of questions and conversation. Not entirely realistic! Oh I’ve just remembered it had the husband slapping the wife’s bottom at one point – be warned! But they sleep in separate beds so no worries there, eh?!
The air force one I watched recently was good too, can’t remember what it was called though – The Way to the Stars – that was it. That was good.
Comment by Ali — 27 October 2007 @ 11:58 pm
i will watch your comment box for answers on that one. andrews been fascinated by the wars for a while now – he’s read many books on the subject, he loved the horrible history ww1 & 2 books but was thinking some movies/tv shows would also interest him.
Comment by Liza — 28 October 2007 @ 1:40 am
gawd how bad does that sound – dragging him away from his beloved books to watch tv, haha!
Comment by Liza — 28 October 2007 @ 1:42 am
I still love ‘Life is Beautiful’ for a WWII film. Otherwise can’t think. Valiant?
Comment by Sarah — 28 October 2007 @ 2:06 am
sorry no idea about wwII film.
But will now be singing all day that song. ruby ruby ruby ruby……
Comment by Em — 28 October 2007 @ 9:46 am
sorry should just ad
ahhh ahhh ahh ahhh ahhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Comment by Em — 28 October 2007 @ 9:47 am
ah yes we saw valiant with film education, he enjoyed that one and did lots of research on animals in the war when we got home.
Comment by Liza — 28 October 2007 @ 11:48 am