I had a lovely long lie-in this morning which was much needed after waking with the alarm every other morning this week (I hate waking with the alarm and suspect every life choice in the last ten years has led me to the fortunate situation where I only have to wake with the alarm 2 days out of 7 for work in a sort of reverse weekend type deal. Home Ed has little to do with philosophical educational and parental choices and much to do with innate laziness 😉 ).
Our original plan was to have the morning at home and head out to the Pop Up Play Space this afternoon but a quick text exchange with Tasha revealed she and Toby wouldn’t be there and as they were the main draw we voted and decided against going.
The morning disappeared pretty quickly thanks to geomags, toy animals and playmobil and then we went to Sainsburys for a few bits including popcorn, picked up a dvd -Over the Hedge (we’ve seen it, I think it was one of our first filmeducation screenings but for £3 it was worth it for the second disc full of extras and animation info alone) and cooed over the turtles in the aquarium shop next to Sainsburys. I called in on my Dad to say ‘hello’ and drop off / collect some paperwork from Mark The Plumber about our boiler.
Back home again Davies and Scarlett tidied up the lounge and got the dvd ready while I popped corn and made toffee sauce to go with it. We watched the film then carried on with other things while the extras ran.
I did some diary coordinating and made some plans for the coming weeks, Davies and Scarlett played. They did a couple of board games and then went back to the toy animals again.
I made their tea, chopped sticks and got a fire lit, cleaned up the kitchen after having made popcorn and tea and then read a chapter of the Ted Hughes book about how God got golden hair and the bat was created.
Ady came home, a complicated deal with struck with Tarly regarding a bedroom based pet (she’s torn between hamster and turtle) in return for both getting rid of the plastic dressing table she got for her (I think) 2nd birthday in favour of a desk / more sensible furniture given the limited space in her room and her cracking reading. I don’t like the idea of a reward for learning to read outside of reading itself but I guess I always knew animals would be Scarlett’s motivation, I just thought it would be reading about them rather than owning them! 😆
We also have a plan to get a new netbook for me as my laptop is struggling to cope with the level of use it gets and Davies is desperate to have a laptop, so he can have this one and I’ll get a new one. Oh they’re growing up! 🙂
Bed for the kids, Scarlett seems to be coming down with yet another something and has been complaining of achey legs and has a croaky voice 🙁 She is currently in our bed with Ady so I’m hoping there is room for me!
Davies impressed me at bedtime with his ever more complicated mental maths and his huge levels of enthusiasm for my sponsored swim :).