Woke up respectably late this morning having ensured I got my full 7 hours. This meant it was 11 am! 😳
Ady, who I must point out probably also had 7 hours sleep, just a different 7 hours so while I was busy doing late night and very, very early morning hostessing I passed the baton for him for later early morning hosting ;). He made a lovely cooked breakfast (I don’t really like the word brunch although I guess as it was about midday when we ate it probably should count as brunch) for ADULTS only – we had to fight the kids off and eventually they got the leftovers anyway ;).
I dedicated myself to finally sewing up the squares, or rather mostly not-squares, of knitting I’ve been doing for about a year. It was not as much of a job as I’d had been dreading and I just about finished it before they all left but it did mean the lounge floor was strewn with knitting pretty mucn all day. It now looks fabulous though, I am even more pleased with it than I thought I would be and although I still have plenty of wool left to carry on and make it as big as I’d like it to be (it’s about long enough but I’d like it wider) it is now a blanket and I can take it camping next week and have achieved my goal of a camping blanket right at the death of the years camping season :).
The others either played, did some squabbling (third late night in a row had the children flagging a bit by the end but they actually all did very well indeed and had a great time together – I think The Barts are the family who’s kids Davies and Scarlett most look forward to seeing and get on consistently well with. It always seems very easy and we rarely, if ever, have to intervene with any of their time together), watched some more music TV (Lady? Not Lady) and enjoyed spending ages superimposing all of our heads on crazy dancers on a jibjab website which had us all in stitches 😆
The kids had tea and then our guests gathered everything, well nearly everything ;), up and headed off. Ady had already done most of the tidying up so he had a bath while I read the end of to Davies and Scarlett. Scarlett has decided she might quite like to start reading after all so her and I decoded the title of Six Dinner Sid as she knew it said that and knew all the names of the letters but not what sounds they made. I suspect when she gets it she’ll get it quickly.
Davies and Scarlett went to bed, but not to sleep – despite them clearly being tired sleep was elusive. Scarlett decided she was cold – I suspect because she has her eye on my blanket, which she is not having so she made do with multi-layering two of my fleeces and Ady’s jumper. She finally fell asleep while we were eating dinner and I think Davies is now asleep too.
Tomorrow Ady’s working but hopefully not all day and the kids and I may go and visit my parents but I suspect none of us will be up particularly early. 😉
blanket does look fab, much better in real life though. Really enjoyed our weekend, am suffering now though and v. knackered!!
Comment by Kirsty — 31 August 2009 @ 8:56 pm
gorgeous blanket!
Comment by tbird anni — 01 September 2009 @ 4:51 pm