Active Sandwich

We had a fairly laid back morning here. The plan was to do the food shopping for the month today and get on with the laundry backlog. In practise neither the children or I felt remotely like walking round the supermarket for hours so I spent a couple of hours battling against the asda online food shopping website instead. I see all the benefits of online grocery shopping but there are downsides too and the length of time it takes to do the first shop on them is definitely one of them. On the upside I got a delivery slot for tomorrow though which compares very favourably to Sainsburys which is normally well into the following week when you go to book one. It did mean I didn’t get any laundry done though as we have no washing powder until it arrives with tomorrow’s delivery.

While I did that Scarlett played for a while with some fuzzy felt, then joined Davies in playing with the lego. They built spaceships and supercars before tidying all that away again. Davies then did some DSing (Drawn to life) and Scarlett spent some time with a maze book (it was all about Darwin but I think that bit went over her head as she just did the mazes).

The sun was shining and we had the tools and hose to take up to the allotment and I also wanted to water the leeks and onions we’d planted on Saturday. So we made a picnic and took it with us to sit and eat up there. Davies did some work on the rest of his plot, Scarlett started digging a pond in her patch and I did another 2 hours of digging and weed clearing. I wore gloves this time which really helped (both with not getting nettle stings and with not getting dirty hands). I’d taken plenty of water with me and stopped for a couple of gazing out over the view breaks. We were there for nearly 3 hours and the kids were really good again. I even caught the sun on my arms and cleavage which is amazing given it’s practically October :).

We came home around 3pm when I’d had enough digging and I sat and drank tea while they carried on playing some game which involved being noisy. They had tea and they watched some programme which I’d never seen before but seemed to be a lot like Dora with plenty of interactive stuff all to do with letters. They were both shouting the right answers out at the TV though. They are both into writing notes a lot at the moment and consequently Davies is getting good at spelling while Scarlett is learning how to write lots of words in their entirety.

I forgot to mention yesterday in the car how they were using some of Ady’s business cards to write and draw on the back of. First of all they both did some flashcards to go with the chorus of American Pie (hands waving bye bye, American flag, pie, Chevy, good old boys, whiskey and rye, singing, die) which had me in fits of laughter. I told them about that Bob Dylan video where he does similar with words on cards and found it for them on youtube this morning. On the way home Scarlett was drawing on the backs of the cards and writing ‘to mummy love scarlett’. She did a seagull with a huge head and little body and when I commented on it being out of proportion she said ‘No Mummy, that’s perspective. It’s head is really close to the camera and it’s body is really far away!’ 😆 😆

I read some Georges Secret Key to the Universe to them and then they allegedly went to bed. I say allegedly as Scarlett reappeared and sat watching QI and picking bits of my dinner off my plate before finally properly going to bed.

I’m aching again and feeling very worn out but in a good productive sort of way.