It’s not actually eased off here all day – should probably have done some sort of rain fall measuring or something.
Today’s plan was to get the kids’ feet measured. I was anticipating two new pairs each so it could have been £100 worst case scenario (although I think I would have chickened out of two pairs of Clarkes each and gone for one pair and some cheapo trainers) so after chatting to Jenny on the phone about group, CV writing and how stupid I was to be going shoe shopping on a wet day during the summer holidays when Jenny assured me (as a parent who has been shoe shopping for back to school in previous years) would be when everyone was shoe shopping I got the kids dressed and set off for town.
Parked nice and easy as town was quite quiet – with the obvious exception of the childrens department at Clarkes of course 🙁 Took our ticket and the kids who were on all sorts of bribes to behave started very well with Davies sort of lolling all over me while Tarly brought us over loads of different shoes one by one and thudded them on the floor to see if they had lights in them 🙂 We probably waited a good 20 minutes and it was heaving so I was justifiably proud of them for being really very well behaved until our number was called. Even happier to find they are both still ok in both pairs of shoes so that was a cheap trip 🙂 and hopefully means we’ll get away with one pair of shoes and some wellies when they next decide to grow too – hurrah cheapness 🙂
Had a wander round town for half an hour or so, looking for pressies for D’s birthday and checking out the new branch of Monsoon which has just opened in Worthing – salivated over the beautiful jewel colours and resolved to be first in line for their next sale for me and Tarly – oh how I’d love to be Monsoon woman, I’d waft around drinking my early grey out of bone china cups, never wearing jeans again and always having matching accessories and a hat for every occassion. I’d be accompanied by my son in sailor suit for the 2000s style attire and my immaculate daughter with her blonde tresses artfully caught up in dragonfly diamante clips wearing miniature versions of my own flowing floaty skirts and dresses which never dripped in the puddles and had raggedy hems….
Kids both got their cake for being positively angelic and we came home. Played with sticklebricks and duplo and lego for a bit with them and then decided to shut down the computer and Do Something Useful. So finally tackled the playroom storage boxes which housed all the various ‘stuff’ when Joyce came and we did the grand tidy up. Got a bin liner full of harshly decided crap, filled the shelves with science experiments and craft kits which we might even have a go at doing this week and sorted the cupboards a bit. Davies was in his element, bringing one tidied away toy to swap for something else but Tarly was really wanting to be played with and ended up getting shouted at for taking out loads of stuff and just scattering it about 🙁 Somehow felt less guilty about not being available as I was at least doing something for them (making their toys easier to get to) rather than blogging or chatting online though 🙂
Ady came home and bathed them, I cut Davies’ hair and then shot to Tescos for a small food shop for the week. Got some baking provisions and tomorrow the plan is to check emails once in the morning and then shut computer down to do some baking, craft or other activity of their choice with them for at least a couple of hours in the morning. I might be getting some more CVs tomorrow or Wednesday (well done Jenny btw 😉 ) and as we’re away for the weekend at the Raine’s I need to be sensible about how much time I might have to be supermum later in the week!
The weather has been lovely here all week. The two of us are off to Dumfries to buy a damper for the caravan towing system (??!), and have a pub lunch etc, even though I’m very grumpy as have had only two hours sleep (not caused by night of unbridled passsion in case you are interested, just usual insomnia). And tomorrow Bob is still off so is going to come to Edinburgh with me meaning that I won’t have to drive, and we’ll have a good city curry for dinner 🙂
Comment by Joyce — 23 August 2005 @ 7:28 am