Friday I worked all day. I still wasn’t feeling 100%, blowing my nose and coughing loads so Yvonne offered to do Baby Rhyme Time and I gratefully accepted. It was nice to overhear mums asking where I was and several of them came to find me afterwards and say they hoped I was better soon :).
I spent a couple of hours on the counter, a couple on the enquiry desk, some time ordering children’s books on spies (fiction and non-fiction) ready for a display in April and did a display for ‘Skills for life’ courses that are being run for adult literacy, numeracy, English as a second language and skills for the workplace that the library is supporting.
I had a little spend up in one of the local charity shops at lunchtime getting a jumper, a jacket and a pair of trousers for Scarlett and a top for me all for under £8 and all with stripes funnily enough.
Back at home there was an air of general excitement when we realised one of the eggs in the incubator was pipping and cheaping. They were several days late and I’d almost given up on any of them hatching. Ady had moved the ‘bator upstairs out of the playroom where our weekend guests were staying so I moved it back downstairs again into the lounge.
My Mum kindly stayed with Davies while I took Tarly round to Rainbows – she’d decided last week she would start staying on her own from this week and did so without a single wobble :). Mum showed me how to use the unpicker that had arrived in the post and then headed off. She is really trying hard at the moment and I’m making similar efforts in return :).
I made up some pizza bases from the dough Ady had made and left to prove and made up some more dough and caught up with Davies before it was time to head round to collect Tarly. She’d asked that Davies come with me to pick her up and in the end he had to as Ady wasn’t home. I did offer for him to wait at home but he wasn’t keen on the idea. Scarlett came out bouncing, saying she’d made another new friend and wanted to ask her round to play so I think she’s going to take a note in to give to her next week with our phone number so her mum can ring and arrange it :).
Back home Ady arrived at the same time as Michelle, Marcus and Chloe shortly after we got back. The kids imediately disappeared with DSs, came back down to be fed and then disappeared again. It was all very harmonious and pleasant :). Marcus and Michelle, Ady and I all stood in the kitchen drinking, chatting, eating snacks and preparing pizzas for us for later before retiring to the lounge. The kids eventually all went to their own rooms to bed without any intervention from us and we all had a relatively early night with me staying up the latest all alone.