Work all day for me today. Banking first thing followed by Baby Rhyme Time and then a fairly frantic rest of the morning. It all quietened down in the afternoon and at times positively dragged though.
I was very excited to see British strawberries in the supermarket at lunchtime so bought a couple of punnets and some meringues and cream to celebrate it being payday :).
Ady was home with the children in the morning although officially he was working rather than off and then Dad was here in the afternoon. They’d managed to lock themselves in the garden when I got home although Dad did concede he could have gone round the house to the back door which was unlocked – wondering now if he was scared of going past the mean cockerel? 😆
I made french toast for the childrens’ tea and then as Ady was stuck in traffic and Tarly went into pouty lower lip, tears welling up in eyes mode at the suggestion that Davies and I drop her off at Rainbows Davies took pity on her and said he’d come and sit in too until Ady got back to collect him. She was incredibly grateful :).
Rainbows was decorating biscuits in honour of Rainbows 21st birthday which Scarlett enjoyed lots. Davies and I sat and chatted quietly about how different it was in comparison to Beavers. We decided it was a bit sexist the way the activities were so traditionally boyish at Beavers and girlish at Rainbows but that this Rainbows was much better run that Beavers. We chatted a bit about what he might want to start in September in place of Beavers – we’re looking into Seascouts, Woodcraft Folk, various nature type junior groups or maybe drama – but only after finding one obviously! He is not interested in musical instrument or sports at the moment. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything for the last half term of the academic year but we’ll find something ready to start in September when he’ll be (shush!) 8 and probably more will be available anyway. Ady arrived at about 630pm and took Davies off home.
Scarlett has suddenly really come into her own at Rainbows, everyone knows her name now and whilst she is not the most popular girl there she certainly has her place now. She really enjoys it and gets precisely what she wants from it.
We came home and Davies and Ady were side by side in the neighbour’s garden cutting her hedge with a pair of shears each 😆 Scarlett had a go too and then Maureen came along with her puppy so we chatted to them and puppy-admired for ages. Eventually the children and I came in and they had their strawberries, cream and meringues (which Tarly still insists on calling ‘boo-meringues’ or ‘boomerangs’ 😆 :lol:) while I dashed off to get some ingredients for chicken curry for dinner. When I came home they were in their pjs but claimed to have too much energy to sit still for stories so we put music channels on the TV really loud and all danced for about half an houruntil they were ready to sit down :). I’d brought home a pile of books to get their opinions on which would be good for under 5s storytime which I’m doing next week at work so we read all of those and they gave me their feedback :).
It was consequently a very late night for them and we didn’t eat our dinner until after 11pm. A busy weekend with lots of gallivanting and some working for Ady coming up.