Argh!

I’ve had a fairly stressy day today. Mostly because I’d set myself up with lots to do and then managed to not wake up until 1130. Yep, that’s right 1130 😯 😳 I’m still not altogether sure how that happened actually. I recall waking when Ady got up around 630am and then again when both children got into bed with me around7am where they stayed for a good hour chatting, the wriggling and finally being banished downstairs. Scarlett brought the post up (a brochure from Centerparcs, the evil tempters! :lol:) and I meant to get up them but simply couldn’t keep my eyes open so fell back asleep. Next thing I knew I woke all refreshed and ready to face the day expecting it to be about 830 / 9am and it was 1124am!!!!

Dashed downstairs and got the children to get dressed (they’d sorted out their own breakfast) and then got them to pick 2 library books each from the ENORMOUS pile in the corner as I realised the BWR finishes officially on Saturday which just left today free for us to get it done and I couldn’t face the shame of my own children being amoung the disappointing number talked about at work who start but do not complete 😆 Davies chose Me, All alone, at the end of the world which I thought was fabulous – we talked about it a bit and imagine we may come back to it. Lots of the language was above them as was some of the subtext but the message came through loud and clear 🙂 and The Pea and The Princess which was cool, putting a different spin on the princess and the pea story with the pea as the hero. We liked that too :). Scarlett chose a Charlie and Lola book which I love reading aloud and doing my best Lola impression for and then i chose Head full of stories for her which is a book of few words but excellent illustrations with plenty to talk about and we briefly whizzed through Hansel and Gretel as she claimed not to know the story. On to the library where they got their medals, certificates, well dones and lots of chatter from my work colleagues about Davies’ party etc. They love it there 🙂 and then home again for lunch.

I spent more time than I should have done getting involved in online debating of Home Education (when will I learn?! :roll:) and then Lucy and The Rs arrived for a while. The children played, Lucy ably assisted when I was being giddy about rolling out and moving icing and then they went away again. I finished the tardis cake and made cheese scones, dalek biscuits, cybermen biscuits and lots of mess 😆 it seems like a lot of work and clearing up for not very much food but it was all fiddly stuff. I want to make some rice crispie cakes too but had run out of paper cake cases – this was a common and very frustrating theme to the day; I didn’t really have enough icing, I couldn’t find my gingerbread man shaped cutter, I opened the decorative silver balls all over the kitchen floor, I could only find one cake board and so on. Argh and grr! I got good news that one family I was thinking wouldn’t make the party now can 🙂 and bad news that another family probably won’t 🙁 and wilfully neglected and was shoutily intolerant of the children by turn (all punctuated by arguing online about the joys of HE :lol:). But it all came good, the cake looks fine now, I have a plan to make some crispie cakes tomorrow when I get in from work and the sandwiches on Saturday morning. We have an empty house tomorrow night for the first time ever the night before a party which will be good for getting stuff done and the plan is for all of us to go to the hall together and set it up ready for guests to arrive from 1pm.

The children did a lot of playing with geomags. Scarlett made me a necklace and then brought the camera out to show me a picture she’d taken of it. I’m not sure if I was more impressed with the necklace or the picture. I assume accidentally she’s taken photos on sepia setting but I’ve actually flickr’d all she took as they were so nice and child’s eye view of things.

Tonight I’ve drunk lots and watched Music and Lyrics with was slushy but nice so all is right with the world again. I’m working all day tomorrow and then will be spending tomorrow night doing things like blowing up balloons and making Doctor Who sound effect cds for party games.