A day at home today.We’ve had a lot of them lately and I don’t really like them. I don’t feel particularly motivated to do loads of ‘at home’ stuff and I tend to end up either sitting on the laptop, reading or knitting while the children entertain themselves. I’m sure all this is fine and noone seems to mind or feel they are being hard done by I just feel we have better days when we’re out and about more.
Hatchwatch hasn’t provided anything in the way of entertainment either – they are due to be hatching pretty much now and if I watch the eggs for long enough they go all blurry like one of those magic eye pictures and I start to become convinced I can see them wobbling. I suspect I can’t though. 2 more days then the ‘bator goes off.
So, I’ve done precisely what I said above today – ‘putered, knitted and read. I did offer to read to the kids but they politely declined. I did several loads of washing, kicked a broody hen out of the henhouse about 4 times much to her squawking indignation and put away the MASSIVE internet food shop that arrived at midday. £300 worth of food to last a whole month and it too over an hour to put away. I was feeling that having put it all away I should be excused from cooking any of it for the month but then remembered that it used to take that long and more just to walk round the supermarket to buy it let alone drive home, unload the car and then do all the putting away so I stopped feeling quite so hard done by.
Davies and Scarlett watched some Ben 10, some Clone Wars,played with the wooden blocks, (Davies built a maze, Tarly built a farmyward), played with the lego and Davies read us the beginning of the first book at bedtime.
I’m sure a quiet day at home has done us all good with regards to recovering from our lurgy but I’m looking forward to a more sociable weekend and a back to normal week next week 🙂 .
We all had salmon for dinner – them about 4 hours earlier than us and we read a pile of picture books at bedtime in an effort to gather some that can be returned to the library tomorrow. And that’s probably about it.