When I’ve not been grring all over the place it’s been a fairly ok day. Very quiet which I think was much needed. The children have reconnected with each other which has been nice to witness. They don’t often spend so much time apart from playing with each other as they did last week and it was all the queerer for them actually being in the same building. I don’t think either of them thought much of it or even realised how little time they spent together but I found it odd to watch given how close they are normally. So it was lovely to watch them back playing their usual games of Backyardigans and all sorts of other exclusive Davies and Scarlett type games. 🙂 Bit like me and Ady I suspect who also seemed to be rarely spotted together last week really 😉
The lounge has indeed been finished with a third and final coat and it does look fab 🙂 just need to sort out some curtains which match the room now (Joyce have you any in your stash 😉 ?) Davies’ room has had it’s first coat of a very ‘experimental’ United Colors of Benetton paint which is sort of purple and has glitter in it and is supposed to be rag rolled so has shown all the brush strokes. I can’t decide if it looks really cutting edge or really shit – D loves it though and I have plans to attack it with freehand approximations of stars and stuff in silver and glow in the dark to drag it over more to the cutting edge side of interior design. 🙂 The paint was 50p a tin so we’ve nothing to lose really!
We’ve been looking at the venue for tomorrow’s wedding on the website and it looks most posh and classy. Not at all sure what one of our mates is doing getting wed there – and utterly unsure what he’s doing inviting friends like us and their children! 😉 At least we plan to scrub up well!
Davies played Zoombinis for a while today and didn’t ask for help even once. When we got back from shopping he was with my Dad watching so I imagine given his knack for questioning every single move you make he now has a good working knowledge of painting and decorating. He managed to get one of his socks yellow and selected an almost matching one of the same design but different colour and proceeded to explain to me how they were the same and how they were different in great detail! He’s also been delighted to get back to Sky and ‘red button’ games and is navigating round the TV with sudden and astonishing ease so all that number recognition must be educational.
Tarly (when she wasn’t being a spoilt little mare!) enjoyed the attention of two whole parents all to herself – not at all sure when if ever she’s had that before. She dictated the musical choice in the car (James Blunt – Merry have you been indoctrinating her? 😉 ) and despite having several melt downs she has responded very well to Supernanny techniques of getting down to her level, removing her from situations and talking to her calmly – all good prep for Ady’s return to work next week and the fall out in behaviour I always have after he’s been around a lot.
After lunch we read one of our library books about germs – excellent book actually would thoroughly recommend it. So with lots of participation in getting the children to do sneeze sound effects we learnt all about how blood is made from water, red blood cells (for colour), white blood cells and platelets. How scabs are made of red blood cells and platelets and why we shouldn’t pick them (Scarlett!) and why stuff like handwashing and ensuring food is ‘clean’ is important and so on. They were hugely inspired by it all and spent ages drawing white cells fighting viruses with chemicals and eating bacteria to kill them just like in the book, so that was science and health and hygiene I guess.
They also played with the geomags for ages and have generally treated each other like long lost best friends all day which has been great. 🙂
Mum popped round on her way home for a quick catch up and a slide show of the pictures (mine and those already flickr’d by others) so we’re pretty much caught up and settled back in again. It was soooo nice to sleep in my own bed last night and to have a fairly laid back day pootling around instead of travelling 427 miles southbound and I do have hopes for the children pulling off human if not well behaved tomorrow given they were both asleep by 7.30pm.
Final bit for today is the recounting of a very funny phonecall from a creditor that Ady took today. We were warned that they might ring and try and squeeze more money than the CCCS had decreed out of us and indeed today we had the first such call. Ady was talking to this bloke for about 15 minutes just repeating himself that we have no more money than what we’ve offered and we have put ourselves in the hands of CCCS and will be adhering to their advice. The guy ended by saying that maybe we could come to some arrangement to pay off a proportion of the debt as final settlement. Ady was getting more and more pissed off which means he gets more and more calm and controlled. The guy suggested ways of raising money – remortgage, selling some possessions and finally ended up at ‘could you borrow some money from someone?’ Ah yes said Ady, I’d notthought of that. Erm could you lend it to me? Cue laughter all round and a swift and speedy conclusion to the phonecall! Clearly the way forward 😉
I have actually just been mentally going through my curtain stash, but anything I have with a yellow or cream hue I only have one pair of. In the house where we had two lounge windows, I was going through a peach and green phase 😀 My current lounge has two windows, now I think of it, with matching cream linen curtains, and tab tops, but er they are on MY wondows atm. LOL
Comment by Joyce — 17 February 2006 @ 10:57 pm
I’ve been going through my stash also! Will let you know if I find anything 🙂
I love watching that return to sibling time also 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 18 February 2006 @ 7:25 am
Picture of living room please?
Comment by Chris — 18 February 2006 @ 8:38 am