and all through the house… clothes were drying on radiators and many cakes were nestling in tupperware…
Poor Tarly had a rough night last night, it was 11 before either of the kids were in bed and then she was in our bed by about 2am. She said she’d had a bad dream but during the night she was burning hot and I woke at one point to find her clamped around me like a limpet. She’s been fine all day today though so I’m assuming it is too many cold days and late nights this week – camp is sure to sort that out 😉
I was off to work this morning and arrived to learn there was a storytelling event happening. Apparently a bid was made way back last year for funding for specific events, resources and materials to provide a better service for disabled and special needs children. The bid was successful but when the election happened a freeze was put on the cash. It was since lifted but as it needed to be spent by the end of March 2011 and we had missed a large chunk of the time planned to spend it in they took half the money instead.
One of the events was a tailored storytime and activity event today at Lancing library but they had fallen down rather on their promotion of the event – not least because people like me didn’t know about it and have therefore not been promoting it and they were unsure how many children would come along.
So much so that when Russell – who has just been promoted and is now properly important 🙂 – was fretting I offered to bring in Davies and Scarlett for numbers which he very gratefully agreed to so I rang Ady and he dropped them off.
The storytelling was being done by Orange Apples who are awesome 🙂 They told some very high impact interactive stories and then did some crafts around them. Ady came back to collect the kids but it was all still going on. Scarlett elected to go back home with Ady but Davies stayed for the second part as he was loving it. The second half seemed even better as they handed out sheets of paper and talked all the kids through folding it as part of the story which included a hat, a kite, various other things with every fold, a highly interactive story about pirates and a boat that got trashed with them all tearing off the relevant bits of their boat – very impressed with them :).
I had a fairly frantic morning generally trying to get stuff ready to go on holiday and catch up with James who I only see once a fortnight and Russell who I don’t see that often at all aswell as do work. We were supposed to be going round to see friends this afternoon but they cancelled as their kids were ill. It was sort of a relief as we really had far too much to be doing to be off socialising but a shame not to see them just the same. C text me but I’d not managed to text her back so M rang me. M was the first person I thought I loved back when I was 16 and I cherished a crush on him for several years on and off and we did share a kiss or two back 20 years ago. We’re both happily married with two children now but I still had a brief thrill when my boss said to me ‘phone call for you – M someone?’ 😆 Quick phone catch up and a promise to get together before we head off.
Davies and I came home and we all had lunch. Ady went to fill up all the chicken feeders and waterers. Dad will come in to let them in and out and will be over here for much of next week decorating but we thought it would be good to be prepared. I needed to go to the supermarket to get stuff for camp dinner tomorrow and breakfast on Monday as the big food shop isn’t arriving until Monday morning. Not totally straightforward as some attendees seem to be wavering about coming tomorrow. Both Davies and Scarlett wanted to come with me so we headed off with our list and got everything we needed.
Back home Ady finished off putting things into the middle of rooms so Dad can come in and paint walls and I got cracking on baking – three cakes baked, decorated and packed up. I directed the kids to gather clothing for the week before finally gathering my own and hanging out the last load of washing to dry, hopefully in time to be packed tomorrow morning.
The kids went to bed, Ady and I had baths and ate dinner, there is a large pile of stuff by the front door ready to load in the car. And so go bed/