You disinfect terazzo on their bathroom floors…

Yes, today we have been mostly listening to the OST of Little Shop of Horrors which is the current favourite film here again (seems to be a very cyclic thing here, favourite films) and having listened to Scarlett’s megamix of ‘I’m a mean green mother from outer space, now SPIT!’ I thought I’d get the soundtrack from work and let them listen to it and learn some of the words. 🙂 So we’ve listened to it in the house, taken it out in the car with us and then brought it back into the house again.

This morning was a bit of a late start for me then we had some communal putting away of clean laundry which was threatening to fall from it’s rather precarious tower in the playroom before I offered to cook bantams eggs for all in whatever form they chose. They both went for pancakes so I made up some batter (D and S came in to break open an egg each) and 3 eggs made the perfect batter for 2 small pancakes each. It was easily the yellow-est batter I have ever seen 🙂

I came over a bit Pioneer Woman and took pics of the pancakes cooking too 🙂

and the toppings (butter and maple syrup for me :))

and the grateful recipients

and then Scarlett who had some sort of circle of life moment and decided she simply *had* to give the chickens some of her pancakes to return some of their eggs to them

(rather charmingly attired in her Christmas pjs, my broken pretend crocs and plaits that have been in since Tuesday 😆 – oh how I prayed the neighbours wouldn’t notice her at nearly midday!).

Davies and Scarlett played with the toy circus (a very cheap last minute Christmas present about 3 years ago that was crappy and fell apart almost immediately but still gets brought out every so often. It has a wooden base, wooden crowds and a fabric big top complete with cannon man, tigers in cages, elephant with tassles and so on) while I did lots of washing, drank lots of tea and ate lots of fruit. Ady arrived home briefly to collect overnight stuff for being in Norwich tonight.

Then off to Home Ed group. We had an aim to get there fortnightly but actually even that is ambitious as things seem to keep cropping up. When we arrived Davies and Scarlett very amusingly sat themselves down at the tables and chairs, poor table-deprived children that they are long before today’s craft activity was set up. They soon got bored of sitting at an empty table and headed off to play though. There is a pile of ‘stuff’ round behing the church hall of things like rope, traffic cones, bamboo canes, planks of wood and so on which to a group of children is like a pile of gold – almost unlimited play possibilities. I’m slightly torn as always between allowing D and S to do what clearly comes naturally which is to explore, experiment, use their imagination, get grubby, take risks, learn from silly mistakes and generally be children and adhering to what I think other people’s idea of what they should be doing might be – like the neighbours to the hall and any passers by. Clearly it is not ok to infringe on others’ space or peace but equally I don’t believe they should be prevented from doing what they want aslong as it doesn’t hurt each other or anyone else. So today was a fairly boisterous session for them joining in with general loudness and running about with sticks.

The craft was quilling which I’d never done before or even really been aware of but was very relaxing and easy to do. I made a card with a bee and some flowers on it which I was quite pleased with for a first ever attempt at the craft. It’s one of those things that is quite enjoyable to sit doing while chatting but not something I’d ever sit at home and do on my own. I do like crafts though :). Davies and Scarlett both came back to the table and did some of it at one point before wandering back off again to play with sticks and spiders. Scarlett seemed to pal up with a couple of other little girls which was nice and Davies seems to have been accepted into the gang of lads. It’s the ideal group to dip in and out of as and when we are free on Thursdays I think :). I enjoyed chatting to grown ups and was also presented with various outgrown clothing from people for Davies which was all very gratefully recieved :).

The others were heading over to the beach but the weather was on the turn. Davies and Scarlett were both complaining of being hungry and I was keen to get home and get them fed and bathed as we’ve got late nights coming up at the weekend. Next time we really will try and go to the beach though with everyone else.

So dinner, long bath and then bed for the children. I cut Davies’ hair, he is keeping the top and front longb but I shaved the back as it was getting crazy with it’s stickingoutness – it will still stick out but mostly just up now :). Then I cut mine as it’s getting long. I did the front and sides and Scarlett followed the line round the back under Davies’ supervision as he cut it for me last time. My hair is very forgiving as there is lots of it and it is fairly random with it’s curls and layers anyway so easy to hide all but the most dramatic of mistakes – which luckily were not made today :).