Pretty good day today. There was enough of a hiatus in the middle to hopefully ward off the evil curse of a crap day tomorrow (breath a sigh of relief oh visitors 😉 ) but maybe it was retribution for such a poo day yesterday. 🙂
Ali has very handily passed me a bit of work which she will no doubt laugh hugely at me for saying but I actually quite enjoyed doing so I got some of that done first thing, opened the post which contained a letter from a creditor to say they are stopping interest and charges, for now anyway and 2 CVs to be written. Reminder to self – BUY A LOTTERY TICKET FOR TOMORROW, YOU’RE ON A ROLL LOVE! ;-), I booked the hall for the new Home Ed group and took a phone call from someone who is definitely coming along to the first one with his two boys so I will get cracking on getting that publicised next week. I’ve joined a local group leaders yahoo list as recommended by June somewhere and been getting some good advice and ideas from that – not to mention being slightly star struck by direct dialogue with Mike F-W! 😉
I forgot to mention how into make up Scarlett is at the moment. She often sits with me in the morning when I ‘put my face on’ and either helps me with mine or puts stuff on herself (which I do have a rumbling bad feminist mother feeling about in some ways but I do keep correctly her when she says ‘now I am pretty Mummy’ after applying eyeshadow that actually she was pretty if not prettier before without it :oops:). Anyway I returned a previously confiscated box full of nail varnishes and hair mascaras to her yesterday so she sat while I was doing my ebay listings painting my toes for me – about five coats all different colours 🙄 and she added a further two coats to them today. So I now have mermaid tail style irridescent toenails (with glittery stars) and she spent ages putting purple sparkly streaks in my hair too! :-).
We popped out with a list of stuff to do, return a library book and get a few new ones – slightly scuppered by me only taking my ticket which already had about 12 books out on it so we had to put about half our selected pile back, get a new battery for my watch which has been working on a very intermittent basis all week – except I hadn’t put it on my wrist so couldn’t do that, get something for my Mum for Sunday – failed!, get some cotton wool and redeem a Boots voucher that’s been kicking about for ages for some new nail varnish – managed that :-), go to the book shop to get some of the WBD books as the library had a pile of the vouchers to take – I got the Harry and the Dinosaurs one and a Viking one but that was all they had left. I tried to get a couple of Dora colouring books but they were 99p each and the tokens can only be used on books costing £1.99 or more. Davies did get a W&G sticker book though and we got the £1 off that. I needed a few householdy bits from Woollies so we got those (oven mitt and some rings with pegs on for drying things like kids socks) and then we came home. I managed to barely contain them round the shops and in the library using a combination of that tried and tested behaviour modification – bribery, threats and whispered angry voice! 🙂
On the way home they redeemed themselves and once back in the house they put W&G on TV and sat doing the activities in the sticker book together – things like spot the difference and so on. Davies has been counting everything today and verbally playing with numbers so autonomous numeracy and literacy have ruled here for him this week 🙂
I did the rest of the work for Ali and then made a very half hearted start on one of the CVs by which time Ady was home. So we all sat together and watched all of W&G disc 2 with all the extras, story behind the characters, interview with Nick Park etc which Davies really enjoyed. I sat and read them a load of library books – Tarly was more into ‘That’s not my dolly and got restless with most of the more interesting ones but she did join in with Quentin Blake’s All Join In which was nice. I love Quentin Blake books 🙂 Davies recognised that the pictures looked the same as one of his Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books so we chatted a tiny bit about illustrators – I have one of those Come Look With Me art books which I think he would enjoy stashed on a bookcase, must get it out next week. We read The Paperbag Prince, which Davies loved and spent ages spotting things in the fab illustrations, Slam which was a real success; it’s a book with virtually no words all about consequences and you sort of follow it yourself – I think he might sit with that one a few more times actually, and an Eric Maddern (who I adore) book about The King With Horses Ears which he retold to Ady after only one listening.
They went off to bed and I relaxed in a bath with a glass of wine and Upper Forth At Malory Towers and now I’m allegedly cooking dinner but secretly blogging in the kitchen! 🙂 I now have an ebay rant to compose so this will soon be knocked down the page! 😉