Back to September

sort of like back to school but without the school bit 😆

We all went to bed early last night and were all up early this morning. I woke before 8am and knowing I had a job list I’d made for myself last night before going to bed I got up and made a start instead of rolling over and going back to sleep. Davies and Scarlett were already up and breakfasting downstairs. I put away loads of washing, chucked all the dirty washing from upstairs down the stairs ready to make piles of laundry ready for processing and then called Davies up to his room for a grand clothes trying on session. I filled a whole basket with outgrown, worn out or garments I have now seen for at least two winters if not three and am sick of the sight of 😆 Although at least two tops (including his orangey jumper with ‘Ecology’ on the front that there are pictures of him wearing at every winter gathering since I met most of you) were nabbed by Scarlett as suitable for her now, she adores wearing his cast off clothes :). Made a mental list of things he still needs to keep him going (pants and socks mostly although if he does grow he’ll need trousers) and brought his Badgers and Beavers tops downstairs ready for sewing on badges.

Once downstairs I put washes on, got the children dressed, phoned and paid the balance for NicCamps and did various other online bits then sewed on the Beaver badges ready for this afternoon. Lucy and The Rs arrived just as I was throwing food for lunch into a bag and Lucy loaded them all into the car. We went to the bank via the petrol station and saw Lucy’s owl from last week and it’s mate which was very exciting. We thought they might be eagle owls and some googling reveals they almost certainly are. My picture isn’t great but viewed large you can clearly see their sillouettes. We’re planning on going tomorrow to look with binoculars and maybe getting in touch with a birdwatching expert to report it. They are huge and such magnificent creatures :). And then on to Magical Mondays.

Magical Mondays started up again last week although we didn’t make it due to a dentist appointment in the middle of day so today was our first day back after the summer break. As it was an open session (recruiting fresh blood 😉 ) Lucy and The Rs came along, having given it a go earlier in the year and deciding they’d like to join. It was really good to be back 🙂 There was clay which Scarlett got stuck straight into although for her I think the appeal was more about the getting wet and clay-y than the art of creation :), Davies joined her a little while later and made a tardis and a figure that he wants to paint when they dry off and harden. They joined in with the running around, inside and out and aside from an incident at the very end where Davies came into contact with someone’s light sabre and received a nasty blow to the side of his neck behind his ear which sent him running back to me in tears 🙁 a good time was had by all. He did recover by the time we said goodbye to everyone and given the tiredness and general overwhelmingness of his weekend I thought he managed today pretty well really. Lucy and The Rs came back for a play but he managed to combat not feeling very sociable by playing with his dalek in his bedroom (he took my camera and made a couple of short films about ‘me and my pet dalek’) and then doing some drawings. Scarlett stayed in the garden mostly playing with the chickens and whichever child happened to be around to join her. She is easily the least needy of all the children, hardly ever needing to come and report wrongdoings (to her specifically or simply generally) and manages to just get on with her life and rub along next to others if they care to join her without being particularly bothered if they don’t. I think she has a great attitude to life like that :), Davies is far more bothered about what other people may or may not be doing, Scarlett really couldn’t care less!

Lucy and The Rs left, Davies and Scarlett tidied up and I cooked their tea which they chose to watch High School Musical The Concert while eating. Scarlett sat there, mouth full, singing along to all the songs, which made me smile. Ady arrived home and Davies and I walked round to Beavers. He quite happily kissed me goodbye and headed off into the bedlam that is Beavers :lol:. Meanwhile Scarlett had a bath until her skin wrinkled and then had her mammoth trying on session with me struggling to persuade her to get rid of clothes that are too small for her. She also needs underwear but is otherwise fine for clothes. Oh and they both need shoes, but that’ll have to wait another couple of weeks until payday – luckily they are still wearing crocs and have wellies that fit so we’re covered for weather possibilities for another fortnight 😆 Ady went to collect Davies who also had a bath and then it was bedtime for them and bath and dinnertime for us. We’ve watched another Torchwood episode and with a full program of owl hunting, first swimming lesson and reading group for me in the evening lined up for tomorrow I suppose I should go to bed soon too.