Ady did some planting out of potatoes first thing while the kids played in the garden and I drank tea and knitted. I then took a very long phonecall from my Mum (well over an hour) which is giving me lots to think about. I do stongly believe that mother / daughter relationships are the most complicated one there is. It’s the main reason I was so desperate not to have a daughter of my own really. Of course now I have one I wouldn’t be without her and I firmly hope and will strive to do my best to ensure my relationship with Scarlett is as uncomplicated as possible but while I’m busy with that I have to remember I play the other part in the relationship with my own mother. Hmmm. Might need to bend someone’s ear for some impartial advice on this one.
Ady got the dinner on and then we headed up to the allotment for an hour or so. We got the raised beds covered over to warm the soil ready for the things we’re planning on planting soon, chatted to a couple of other allotmenteers up there and were given an armful of leeks and parsnips pulled out of the ground before our eyes by one kind man :). Spring is definitely in the air and it’s exciting anyway but all the more so being up at the allotment seeing buds and shoots :).
Back home I put the two WAA activities the kids have already done towards their silver award into reports and emailed them to Ady for him to print off at work tomorrow. Davies and Scarlett were DSing, they’ve been playing Sims Animals lots today along with connecting on Lego Star Wars. Lots of reading from Davies and nice cooperative playing together as a result :).
We had roast chicken and Davies decided the topic of conversation today would be what gifts we’d all like from each other on our next birthdays, with a theme of homemade according to people’s skills :).
Ady went to clean the chickens out and clean his car, I did some more knitting and the kids did some more DSing. I like weekends like that when I feel like I’ve had a chance to spend time doing what I want to do rather than what someone else feels I should be doing. I ran the kids a bath and then sat and brushed all the tangles out of Scarlett’s hair (there were lots) and we watched the Natures Great Events programme about the salmon run. The kids asked if they could draw while watching and they both did some fab pictures of what they were seeing on screen. Davies did a bear catching salmon and Scarlett did wolves catching salmon. Her picture had a sun but also the moon as you sometimes see during the day and as it was a full moon she also drew a rabbit in it according to a folk tale we once read. Davies also did a poster proclaiming ‘I LOVE MY DADDY’ and one based on Kung Fu Panda.
I read one chapter of the next Humphrey book by popular demand, well tears actually when I said it had gotten too late for stories and they went off to bed. My evenings seem to be being eaten up with knitting and picpic.