Ding dong verrily the sky

I remembered just as I got into bed last night that I’d arranged with my Dad for him to call round this morning on his way to dropping his van off to be MOTd so that I could follow him and bring him back here for the hour or so they had it. The MOT place is on an industrial estate near us but in the middle of not a lot else with nowhere to kill an hour. So I set my alarm and was up if not dressed and downstairs when he arrived. He and I drank tea and coffee while the children breakfasted and got dressed and I suddenly realised I don’t remember MOTing my car any time recently so went to dig out the MOT certificate and yes, indeed, I have been driving round for nearly 6 weeks without one 😳 😳 :oops:. Over the years we have managed to get our car tax, insurance and MOT at different times of the year so we don’t have any one big expense – the downside of this is that it requires me remembering to MOT the car in October, which I will henceforth be refering to as MOTober to remind me. So when I took him back to collect his van I booked my car in for an MOT on Wednesday. I did use the car to go to MM today but won’t use it tomorrow or indeed again until Wednesday when I take it to the garage and feel quite horrified with myself for the oversight.

Dad seems to have really taken on board my comments about not seeing enough of him and coupled with incidents like Davies ringing him last week to announce his swimming achievement and coming to see him at the carol concert yesterday as well as yet another birthday party he sat through this weekend where the children ran round clearly happy, normal and well adjusted with wide friendship circles I think he is feeling better in his own way about what we are doing. He’ll never in a million years accept that Home Education is right, certainly not that the way we are doing it anyway but if I can get across that we are not doing any great damage I will be happy ;).

Given the vast quantities of festive foodstuff in our house I piled up all the remaining cakes and biscuits from Scarlett’s party to share at MMs, which seemed to go down pretty well :). It was a good session today – there were some ace snowglobes to put your own picture in so all three of us had a go at them. It was a quietish session anyway and Davies had told me before we went that he was going to try really hard to stay away from any trouble, which aside from a row with Scarlett about who should count first in a game of hide and seek he pulled of beautifully. I thought I’d resolved the hide and seek issue too with a coin flip but Davies lost the call and stropped anyway 🙄 I enjoyed chatting (and singing!) with the adults and am looking forward to the Christmas party next week.

We’re a bit desperate for normal food at the moment – I’d normally have done the months food shop this weekend just gone but obviously had other stuff to keep me busy so despite the vast array of cakes and chocolate we don’t have an awful lot else, but knowing full well I’d managed to drive around in the car for the last 6 weeks without incident but I would be bound to have some dreadful happening now I know it is illegal to be driving I decided against going out to do food shopping this afternoon. Instead we did a bit of fimo-ing. I made Homer Simpson, Davies made several characters from TrapDoor and Scarlett made a pink horse. I then baked them for nearly 4 hours having totally forgotten about them. 😆 They are fine, slightly on the suntanned side but fine anyway :).

The children had tea and watched Beat The Boss and then we walked Davies round to Beavers. Scarlett and I played on Starfall for most of the hour he was gone and were still doing it when Ady came back with a very poorly Davies cradled in his arms. He’d started to feel ill not long after arriving and had sat out for most of the session before vomiting everywhere just as Ady arrived. They’d been looking out for me and despite it being Ady who collects him most weeks and has gone on plenty of trips with them they’d just been looking for ‘Davies’ mummy’ and ignored him while he stood blissfully unaware that Davies was copiously redecorating the hall :(. We stripped him down and got him in the bath and his clothes in the wash. I stuck some dinner in the oven for us and then got Davies installed on the sofa with blankets, bowl and hot water bottle. Scarlett got back out of bed having declared she wished she was sick too so she could stay up and watch The Simpsons :roll:. She finally went to bed late, Davies was sick a couple more times but seems to be over the worst now having kept water down for the last couple of hours. We had Evan Almightly to watch on dvd so as it was a pg rating we stuck it on anyway and he watched with us; cue much chatting about religion, Noah, God and so on. No idea whether he has the bug that is doing the rounds, has eaten too much party food the last 48 hours or my threats about not going to sleep until 1030pm every night and being up again by 7am making him ill have come true but I guess the planned quiet couple of days at home have come at just the right time. 🙂 He and Ady went up to bed about half an hour ago so hopefully he’s asleep now. Tomorrow we have a whole pile of films we could watch and unless he is way better he won’t be swimming so I can catch up on finishing writing Christmas cards and other such home based stuff.