Was not going to blog today as almost nothing noteworthy has happened, but the pull is too strong 🙂
My turn to get up while Ady had a lie in so I spend a couple of hours doing some paid work which coupled with some more done later with the laptop in the garden has put me back on track for my work for the last couple of weeks, so that feels good.
Decided after yet another sunny morning that it was time to get the kids kitted out in some summer doodles shoes (I did buy them both a pair of sandals a couple of weeks ago on the assumption that as their current shoes are both half sizes and they have had them a while I should go up to the next full size for both of them. Wrong! Neither of them could walk in them without them falling off 🙂 ) and as shoes purchasing is a job best done with as higher adult to child ratio as possible I persuaded Ady to come with us to get them). Scarlett had the mother and father and grandparents of all tantrums and totally showed us up but we did emerge battle worn and weary with new shoes for them both!
Ady then did some gardening with kids around him while I went to Sainsburys, then we all sat around in the garden (me on laptop) before I got bored and came in for about an hour to finish off my work in the house. Can’t remember the last time I was in the house all alone – it was lovely 🙂
The washing is all clean, dry and put away (love Summer for that reason alone, washing on the line with a clean smell instead of draped around the house for days with a damp odour to it), tomorrow we are supposed to be seeing Rachel, E and baby A (although I think one of us was supposed to ring the other to arrange something and we’ve both failed!).
Pox watch reveals nothing although I am actually almost wanting her to get them now for two reasons 1) it will justify her horrid behaviour and frequent tantrumming over the last couple of days and 2) it will be over and done with during a week which if she has to get it would be more convenient than next week – although of course I am still hoping she somehow manages to escape it I do think it’s unlikely.
Scar watch was doing well but as I have just come into Davies’ bedroom to say goodnight and been presented with a small pile of picked off scabs (ewww!) so not so sure he will remain unscathed 🙂
HM – that’s not lamb as in “dead baby sheep”, is it ;-). Hannah still thinks that organic means they died of natural causes. I have never told her such a bare-faced lie, all I said ONCE when she was much younger, was the organic animals had a happier life (it all being relative), and she seems to have drawn this conclusion. Apart from the fact it provides me with visions of chicken falling off their perches with old age, it worries me what it will do to her psyche when I explain this to her. Actually, I think THAT’S her dad’s job. I’ve done how babies are made, what sex is, what puberty means, and what happens to organs after they are surgically removed. Def HIS turn
rofl joyce! i have to say that i felt a bit bad when elinor commented on all the lambs being safe as they were with their mummies. she knows why we dont eat meat, but dont think she has joined up the dead animals with skipping lambs!
hmm, blogging pulls me most days despite nothing much happening. Still can’t believe people really read it, but it appears that they do 😉
I am refusing to buy new summer shoes until well after hesfes, they can wreck last year’s sandals there and *then* have new ones! They all still seem to fit, anyway …
yep, sure was dead baby sheep 🙂
Tonight we have dead chicken or dead cow curry – not decided which animal I have a taste for yet!
Davies knows that we *get* meat from animals but I’m not altogether sure he is aware that we are actually eating *them* – I think he might believe that beef is from a cow in the same sort of way that milk is somehow.
And Sarah do they wear shoes at HESFes? I had the impression that all the children ran barefoot, wearing tie dye garments and tangled hair accumulating as much dirt and mud as possible 😉
I read your blogs [actually normally all the blogs, so its a good think a fair number don’t update daily].don’t always cooment though!
elinor aware that meat is musclr from an animal and it dies, but have a feeling she assumes natural causes, and has to be old not a skippy lamb!
Well I have tried to explain to my lot (us all being meat eaters) what it means when we saw we’re having chicken etc. but they all firmly refuse to believe that a chicken the animal is the same as a chicken the food, ditto for the other meats we eat (mainly just beef and ham) so not sure what to do about that, I haven’t lied, I’ve been more than honest but they just won’t believe it! Maybe its some self protection thing, the truth is too yuck for them to contemplate?
ROFL at the washing machine though and love those day out pics, we really need to start our summery outings rather than all sitting at home vegging as your photos always make me jealous!
ROFL @ HESFES.*other* children may do that, but mine has her hair firmly combed with a bone comb every night, and firmly tied up by day. A day where she wears at the least clean socks and pants, laid out for her after she was hosed down before being allowed to get into her sleeping bag, and after she has consumed the requisite number of anti-oxidents. Controlling? Me?
I used to be veggie but it seems to have fallen by the way side. Boo is by choice veggie. All kids were ’til at least 2. Pea would hunt any animal down, kill it, cook it and eat it. When she was about 3 she learnt about stun guns etc and she just replied ‘well it tastes so nice’. Her choice!
Hesfes, ha! I was laughed at for bundling my lot into the shower one night … and I do like to brush their hair against their wills 😉
Abbie did wear the same dress all week, but that came in quite handy for identification purposes ‘you know, the little dark girl in the orange dress’, in fact i’ve been on the lookout for another orange dress before this year, think she’s grown out of the other one …
But no, shoes aren’t practical, wellies are better 😉
hmm, perhaps I should dress mine in something resembling school uniform so they stand out 🙂 Although I’m guessing Tarly’s disposable nappies will mark her out!
Ady worked in a slaughterhouse for a while when he was younger so is able to give fairly graphic descriptions of precisely how the meat comes from Old McDonalds to McDonalds but then I don’t look at a steak and think ‘ooh, now that’s a nice lump of dead cow!’ so I guess the kids are not likely to either!
Maddy wore the same dress all week last year and i was shamed into washing my children by sarah 😀 Shoes are good though due to the glass in the playground *rolls eyes*
unlike melrose then merry!! princess Maddy I think! i hope you have an identifiable maddy outfit for every camp, and pleased to see you are alert enough to blog!
C has long been aware of where meat comes from and that we have eaten some of our own cockerels. She was particuluarly pleased to eat the one that attacked her every time she stepped out of the door.
Sarah – I’m sure you showered yours more than once. PLEASE don’t tell me I was the only hygiene freak. I’ve been comforting myself with the thought that you were doing it too.
Dunno about showers, but she certainly made them wash 😉 I try not to see mine, bollocks to washing them! Don’t worry, Lulah was in dispies (and wellies) last year too – see http://www.home-educate.me.uk/imagelib/displayimage.php?album=3&pos=68