The plan was a lay-in for all Goddards not getting up to go to work this morning. But Miss Goddard woke just the same and having gotten bored watching Ady unpack his car and decant it into the playroom she came and tried to wake Davies and I up instead. I did wake, Davies didn’t.
I woke up properly around 9am and came downstairs to provide breakfast etc. Davies had also woken by then. I got the first of several loads of washing on and ran a bath. Davies had first bath although he lucked out rather as Scarlett went to chat to him while he was in the bath and ended up getting in with him anyway. They stayed in there for about 90 minutes but were incredibly grimy so probably needed a good long soak :). They helped each other to wash hair and overall did a good job of convincing me that more than one child is worth two labours ;).
I left them to their own devices while I caught up with online stuff and booked various things I should have booked already such as campsites and mid point travelodges for our Scotland trip in July. They played with Lego, Davies did some animation on the animationstation and Scarlett declared her wish to do some animal breeding. I’ve sort of been expecting that as the next logical step but we have a current deal that she can choose some sort of bedroom pet when she can read a book about caring for it so I reiterated the need for reading as a skill for such endeavours which hopefully saw off such requests for a while. I’m torn between feeling that actually breeding animals is a pretty cool activity for a 7year old and worried at trying to make it happen. More discussion needed I feel… Ady and I have been discussing in idle moments scary stuff like The Future and I suspect we will drift towards it again in the right environment. A weekend at Sustainability Centre might well prove just such a place. Animal breeding could well be a possibility then.
I made lunch. The children ate it and requested more – maybe we didn’t feed them enough this weekend! 😆 Chatted to Ady at length on the phone about roofboxes. Concluded very little.
Then it was swimming. I wasn’t in a swimming place today and I am undecided as to whether I should be rallying against what could be an unconscious ‘Swimming. Tick.’ mentality or listening to myself and taking a bit of a break. Today I listened and quite enjoyed watching snippets of the kids’ lessons and reading my book. I’m definitely not done with swimming but maybe a sabbatical is in order. Or maybe come next Tuesday I’ll be raring to go?
Scarlett came and sat with me while Davies has his lesson – she snuggled up and played her DS leaning into me while I read. I love that physical closeness without engaging with each other state that Tarly is great at pulling off. I like being physically entangled while being involved in seperate things too but Ady and Davies are less able at that than Scarlett and I seem. Am I talking nonsense or does anyone else know what I mean?
Back home I cooked their tea and did laundry rotation. The secondary cockerel is desperate to be mating but can’t seem to get a hen to acquiese so the primary cockerel is doing lots of watch and learn type demos which the secondary cockerel goes all around the mating pair viewing from all angles. It is hilarious to watch and I am really enjoying this glimpse into the world of the bantam male.
Ady arrived home and we all had half an hour catching up with each other before I headed off to Sainsburys. We seem to be low on basic stuff like tins, bags of sugar and flour and frozen vegetables so I went off to do a top up shop. I half expected to bump into my parents as at least 50% of the visits I make there in the evening see me meeting my Mum and sure enough my Dad and I spotted each other simultaneously at the end of the cereal aisle. I’ve missed them several times this last 3 weeks – when Candle went obviously, in looking after the chickens this weekend and particularly my Dad in just being there. I’d worried about them so far away, fretted about them getting stranded with volcanic ash issues and just low-level felt their absence in the UK. We had big hugs and brief catch up chats – not told them about Candle yet as it would have been a blurting out type thing and I suspect that is Scarlett’s forte rather than mine :(. We parted with a promise to see them tomorrow sometime.
Back home again I put away the shopping, Ady cooked dinner and we lit a small coal fire to celebrate being indoors again. All the camping stuff is stewn about the playroom as it will be being packed up into my car again on Thursday night ready for Sustainability Centre on Friday – perfect camping really – less than an hour from home if it’s too cold or horrid, campfires allowed and encouraged and Hazel ;).
I know exactly what you mean re physicality. Hannah and I good at it, bob less so. And lol at watch and learn!
Comment by Joyce — 05 May 2010 @ 7:53 am