Well certainly not in Lancing any more anyway! 😆
Off to MM Home Ed group today. Both the children had a good time there. I’d asked them not to go outside today and they stayed indoors and found plenty to do instead which was good. Davies and Freya played together for ages while Tarly did a drawing with a load of foam stickers on it using lots of blues, greens and turquoises, then the three of them played together, with other children joining in making a really big wooden train track. There was also some game involving all of them being Wallace, Gromit and Gromit 2 which had them using up lots of energy too. 🙂 I had some good chats with some of the grown ups and drank lots of tea, which always makes for a good day in my opinion!
Before we’d left Davies had been playing X box and Tarly had been playing with sticklebricks so they started to continue where they’d left off but then they plugged the second xbox controller in and they played together for a while. Davies was really quite patient with her until she got bored and started messing about. I’ve got her a couple of Xbox games for her birthday / Christmas so she might start to get into it, but I don’t think she’ll have the patience for it for a while yet really.
The library rang me to arrange a starting date and give me my rota for over Christmas. They pro rata the bank holidays over your working hours so I’m doing lots of half days and 3 hour shifts for the couple of weeks over Christmas which breaks me in very gently 🙂 Looking forward to it now.
Dad came over to sit with Tarly as Ady had been delayed at work while I took Davies to Badgers. Unfortunately we arrived only to be told that it was the last Badgers and due to there not being enough adults there it was cancelled for tonight as well. The poor Leader was really tearful 🙁 They are having a Christmas party in a couple of weeks as a final goodbye. I said that we have got Davies signed up to start at the Worthing branch in January and they had lots of reassuring things to say about that group so that is positive, but a shame it didn’t work out in Lancing. She gave them all a bag of sweets to bring home and gave Davies an extra one for Scarlett and invited her to the Christmas party too.
Back home Dad stayed a while, Ady arrived home and I finally decided to do something about our sofas. We have loose covers on them which have really bad rips and tears on the arms. They have gotten suddenly even worse and just make the room look so shabby. They really irritated me and served as a constant reminder to Ady about our financial situation. Whilst I wouldn’t claim to be massively houseproud I was very conscious of the sofas. I’d looked into new loose covers but they cost almost as much as the sofas themselves. Ros suggested ages ago cutting material from the backs on the covers to use to sew on the arms so tonight I did it. And I can’t believe the difference it’s made 🙂 so hurrah, hurrah and thrice hurrah! 🙂
Nothing to do with whats written here, but has Davies ever seen Mio Mao? Its a plastacine animation on Milkshake on 5. Short episodes, very simply animated, funny though. Might give him some more animation ideas.
Comment by Em — 21 November 2006 @ 9:08 am
Oh nice work with the sofas, I bet that has made a big difference to how you feel when you’re in that room.
What XBox games have you got Tarly?
Comment by Ali — 21 November 2006 @ 10:16 am
yeah, it’s so nice 🙂
She’s got Barbie Wild Horses (or whatever it’s called, the pink one with the blonde hair and the ponies) and a Hello Kitty rollersomething one. I found a site about good x box games for kids and the Hello Kitty one was on there as nice and fluffy with no real violence so I grabbed it on ebay.
For Davies I’ve got Willy Wonka, Cat in the Hat (which we already have the pc game of and he really likes so I think it will be way better on X box), supermonkey ball and erm, something else I can’t remember and can’t go and dig out cos it’s hidden in the secret Christmas present stash area 😆
Comment by Nic — 21 November 2006 @ 10:59 am
Sounds good! I’d love a link to that site if you could.
Starting to feel Christmassy isn’t it?
Comment by Ali — 21 November 2006 @ 11:25 am
*is desperately using Nic’s blog comments box as YIM substitute*
Comment by Ali — 21 November 2006 @ 11:26 am
Lol, no idea what it was now Ali, but I’ve found this one
http://xbox.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/kidgamestop10.htm
and I just found this one
http://games.teamxbox.com/xbox/1313/The-Bible-Game/
Comment by Nic — 21 November 2006 @ 11:40 am
Cheers!
Comment by Ali — 21 November 2006 @ 12:53 pm
The Barbie horse game is brilliant – well,it’s shit, but all kids seem to adore it. Super Monkey ball (Deluxe, to distinguish it from various other Monkey Ball games we have here!) is truly brilliant, and you and Ady will be fighting with the kids over the controllers so you can play bowling, golf, etc.
Comment by Alison — 21 November 2006 @ 3:58 pm
you prairie muffin you! but well done on the sofa’s. we need felt tip remover here…
Comment by chris F — 22 November 2006 @ 12:39 am