A necessary late start this morning for the children and I. We’d already decided on the way home last night to have a day at home today to recover but as Tuesdays are mad enough with nothing other than our regular ‘after school’ things that still doesn’t make for laziness ;).
Breakfast, dressed and things like laundry dealt with we nipped down to the industrial estate (where Gymnastics is) to visit Scout Shops for a Sea Scouts Cub sweatshirt for Davies. It is where I worked for the 9 months I was pregnant with Davies back in 2000. I got the job there as Sales Office Manager and found out 10 days later I was pregnant! I really enjoyed that job and infact stayed on for another 15 months after I had Davies on a one day a week in the office and further day a week from home sort of consultancy-style doing some paperwork and offering back up to the woman who took over my job. I’m still in touch with several people who worked there while I did but noone who is still there and I’ve not been back there since we moved home. It’s all changed and from being a mail order head office with 19 shops around the UK they are now mail order only and sold all the shops to Blacks. They do now have a small showroom open to the public at Lancing though so that was where we went for the sweatshirt. The door was opened by Dawn, who worked in Buying when I was there and was pregnant too so has a nine year old daughter. She filled me in on all the gossip, the odd few people still there (hard to believe that was nearly 10 years ago, it really doesn’t feel like it!) and sold me the sweatshirt.
We came back home and Davies tried on the trousers they’d given him at Sea Scouts a couple of weeks ago and he and Ady had told me didn’t fit him. It turns out they fit him fine so that was him kitted out.
We had a fairly lazy few hours watching various stuff on cbbc, the kids both did some DSing, both came and cuddled up with me at various points and Scarlett and I did a couple of jigsaws together. I also caught up a bit on blogging and did some reserving stuff online for Christmas and birthday presents ready for Ady to collect tomorrow.
Then it was off to swimming. I’d already decided not to swim today and I was glad as the chief instructor was observing today for grading them for next term so I got to watch that and also see the kids’ progress over the last few weeks. Davies went and had a bit of a swim while Scarlett had her lesson but then he came and sat with me for a bit before his lesson. Scarlett was sad not to play with her little swimming friend (they waved sadly to each other for a bit, S sat beside me and her friend, A from the pool) but played her DS beside me anyway. No idea if either of them will go up next term to the next classes but I am really pleased with their progress generally this term. They are both looking like proper swimmers, have loads of water confidence, clearly enjoy it and developing style and technique on the variuous strokes. Scarlett got her ‘Octopus 3’ certificate and badge and she found 50p in one of the lockers so she bought a packet of Opal Fruits to share with Davies to celebrate :).
I got them fish and chips as promised last week for their tea and when we got home Ady had just arrived before us. I got changed, bid everyone goodbye and headed off for my course. Last one tonight. The nine weeks has flown by and while it’s been fairly chaotic dashing around on a Tuesday and part of me is relieved it is over I have really enjoyed it and learnt loads. It’s not quite over yet as I have a test to complete, two assignments to finish, an interview to attend (which I need to reappoint as it was for next Thursday which is now Christmas so I have cancelled it) and a Health and Safety training day to go to before I am formally a Waste Prevention Advisor but all of the formal learning is now complete at least. I do intend blogging in more detail about the whole thing at some point, just not sure when exactly.
Meanwhile Davies went to Sea Scouts and was invested. Really sorry to have missed that and if it hadn’t been the very last one of my course I would have gone to watch Davies instead. Infact if he’d shown any signs of upset that I wasn’t going to be there I would have gone anyway but he was totally fine about it all and I got to see pictures 🙂
And see his certificate and of course I will get all of the honour of sewing on the big clutch of badges he brought home to be fixed to his new top :rolls:
And that, finally, pretty much brings me back up to date. Phew!