I went to bed at 1030pm last night which is simply unheard of. Even more shocking was that I left a glass of wine unfinished! 😯
I think the various 2am bedtimes this week from ragrugging finally caught up with me and as I had work this morning for once I did the sensible thing and went to bed early. Not something I’ll make a habit of though and I woke up around 2am and again at 6am and again at 7am so I possibly didn’t get much more sleep than in a normal night when I sleep through really.
Anyway, yesterday we were heading to Lucy’s so we had to pick up a few bits for lunch and the children both have odd sundries they need (S: pants, long sleeved tops and trousers for autumn / winter D: socks, black shoes for Badgers, trousers generally) so I decided to go to the CoOp which has an instore Ethel Austin concession which sells cheap clothes. We did get the socks and pants but nothing else, and the required bits of food for lunch and dinner later.
We had a mostly nice time at Lucy’s. We all had a very soggy walk to the shops to get a few more essential lunch items which took a while to dry out from but given the children were mostly confined to indoors they all rubbed along fairly well together with very minimal fallings out. Lucy and I managed to chat and drink tea which is always a winning way to spend an afternoon in my opinion. 🙂
We headed home to get Scarlett fed, changed and item to take to show and tell chosen ready for Rainbows, but despite gentle reminding, rather less patient prompting and finally shrieking at her from me we still ended up with her in tears when Rebecca rang the doorbell to call for us just before 6pm. She finally grabbed something and we walked round to the hall only to find that only other other Rainbow had turned up and only one of the adult helpers so everyone else hadn’t realised it restarted yesterday after summer break. 🙁 Scarlett was very disappointed, particularly as she’ll miss next week so we came home again.
I think we had stories although I can’t actually remember and then bed for D and S followed not that long afterwards by us.
Ooh and Davies learnt how to spell ‘Goddard’. He’d had a go and written ‘Davies Goodo’ before getting stuck and coming to ask. I wrote it out once, he copied it and then I gave him a blank sheet of paper and he wrote it out again straight away. That’s got to be the way to learn rather than agonising over it before he was 5 and went into reception when it wouldn’t actually have meant anything other than forming shapes I reckon.
Today I was off to work for the morning which went quickly amid much teasing from my workmates about weather conditions for next week (camping trips and weather are legendary now for me at work). I was most amused to see two girls from Rainbows (seperately) come in, both of whom I have chatted to at length at Rainbows over the last 2 terms having sat there every single week and then 3 siblings from Badgers come in, two of whom came to Davies Doctor Who party last year and I have known since Davies was at Lancing Badgers nearly 3 years ago. All of the children appeared not to recognise me despite me saying hello to them and one of the 3 siblings asked his mum ‘how does she know our names?’ 😆 clearly out of context adults are just adults to most children – either that or I need the accessories of Davies and Scarlett to make me recognisable!
Davies and Scarlett went to Young Wildlife Explorers at Pulborough Brooks which is a monthly kids meeting of RSPB members. I had cocked up the times and sent Ady there with them at 11am when they should have been there at 10am so they ended up missing their slot and very kindly they let them in for the first hour of the older childrens’ session instead for this month. Davies is actually old enough for that group as it is 8-11 rather than the 5-7 one he has been signed up for but the organiser felt it might be better to start him, with Scarlett for the first term at least and then see if he wanted to move up, which sounded sensible and the children are happier with. Eventually I think them being in different groups would be good though and give whoever takes them a chance to have an hour each with each child seperately while the other one is in their group. It’s the first Saturday of every month and looks to have a varied and interesting programme, and they can go right up to age 16 if they want so that should be another good activity to add to the things they do :).
Ady and the children beat me home so there was a cheese toastie waiting for me when I got in which was nice :).
This afternoon I have mostly loafed around on the sofa checking long term weather forecasts while the children played on laptops. Davies spent some time on the cartoon network website, Scarlett spent ages on a literacy and numeracy game disc that Davies used to love playing and seemed to be doing well whenever I glanced over. She is so resistant to being taught or even told anything and wants to ‘learn everything myself’ so games like she was playing where a process of elimination is possible to get the right answer are ideal for her.
Ady was being super efficient and packing the car up inbetween showers. He then remembered we needed some gas cannisters and a mantle for our gas lamp so Davies and I went off into town to get them from Millets. We had a bit of a wander round town too and then as we’d parked on the seafront and the sea was so impressively high and wild we went onto the pier. We used to often go to the beach on wet and windy days just because I think that’s when the sea is at it’s most awesome so I was very happy to take Davies to be awed by it today. It was all brown and churned up, really high waves breaking and spraying the pier, the rain was so hard it hurt your face and the wind whipped at you – it was ace :). We did some leaning into the wind, running against it and with it to see the difference and then hung over the pier where the waves were breaking listening to the stones getting dragged back and getting that odd feeling of moving backwards.
We came home, the kids had a bath and tea, we watched X Factor and now I’m waiting for Ady to cook a curry. There, I’ve been a real lazy cow today while Ady has been wonderful but he did have quite a weekend off last weekend so I don’t feel too guilty ;).