All round. Children were feeling better and we got out and about which made us all better generally. Ady had to go to a couple of local garden centres this morning so when he told me that last night I decided we’d go with him. One has a large pet section with loads of fish and small animals which I knew the children would enjoy looking at. So this morning we were up and out fairly early doing that. Whilst looking at the rabbits a woman with twins in a pushchair (around 2 ish I guess) struck up a conversation with me about how she can’t wait until her two are out of the pushchair and not just trying to make a run for it in different directions. It reminded me that it is not that long ago that I couldn’t just decide to go off out with the two of them and not worry about that myself – strange how quickly you forget the epic-ness of leaving the house with very small children needing pushchairs, nappies, snacks etc. and how ‘going for a walk’ with Tarly at the weekend genuinely was ‘going for a walk’ of a couple of miles all told. I love having children rather than babies or toddlers. 🙂 We chatted about various things to do with the fish, reptiles and small mammals we saw including the tropical and cold water fish, the fish which clean the sides of the tank – algae eaters and what albino means having looked a fine example of one as a rabbit.
Ady dropped us home and went to collect some logs. I called into my parents house on the way past to check everything was ok. Frazer was supposed to be coming for dinner tonight but cancelled as he is feeling crap with a cold. My parents rang last night having just arrived in Buenos Aires (sp?) on about the third or fourth hotel so far. They seemed to be enjoying it but said it was a very busy trip.
Home for lunch and the children quickly got engrossed in some game with wooden blocks and fuzzy felt. Scarlett got out some magnetic word tiles and played with them for a while spotting letters from her name and Davies’ – as the car is always steamed up at this time of year they are doing lots of writing on the windows and she always asks him to write his name so I assume it won’t be long before she can write that too. 🙂
I have been doing bits of ebaying, spending the money I made on selling those clothes and the first of two dresses arrived for me this morning. Hopefully the other will arrive tomorrow. As I then needed shoes to go with it and am still craving the actual real life shopping experience I decided that as some of the transfered from paypal money arrived in my bank account this morning I would allow myself a bit of retail therapy – that was my deal with myself after all. 🙂 So on bribery of a small present if they behaved we drove to a nearby town with three shops all of which sell clothes that suit my size and budget. 😉 I ended up buying another dress, some shoes, some funky tights and a new top for work – all in the sale and all for not much more than one of my suits had sold for on ebay. 🙂 The children were rewarded in the charity shop with a Roddy from Flushed Away Happy Meal toy for Davies – the one character he didn’t already have, and a brand new mosiac craft kit for Tarly with various shaped gems and a box and some photo frames to decorate with them – all for under 2 quid! 🙂
In the car we had an interesting conversation about first memories – mine is my brothers Christening, which led onto what a Christening is and why you would have them and why D&S have not. Which led onto why I don’t believe in God and what I do believe in. Which somehow led to actually how does the seed get from the man into the woman to meet the egg to make a baby? 😯 I started from the beginning explaining about testicles, ovaries etc which took us away from the more tricky question (I would happily tell them both but am unsure they have the maturity to use such knowledge wisely! :lol:) and moved us onto puberty and signs of it instead. They were reassured that they do indeed have all the bits already inside them, that they will not wake up one morning menstruating with developed breasts / hairy of chest and dropped of voice and balls by which point we had arrived at the car park and they had started to lose interest anyway. Phew! I think.
Once home – during the return journey we had a rather more sobering conversation about precisely why I need to concentrate when I’m driving so I don’t crash and that them squabbling in the back of the car does not assist in such concentration – ably exampled to Davies as the same as when Tarly is being all noisy while he’s trying to play X box and it puts him off, but the consequences of losing a life on the game are rather more serious in real life – we had a tidy up session and then Davies went off to introduce Roddy to the rest of the Flushed Away gang while Tarly got busy with the glue and mosaics and started working on a photoframe. I played some online mahjong which Davies came and joined in with for a while by which time Ady was home and their tea was ready. Ady brought with him a bargain of his own – a pair of purple dms with stars in Davies’ size, just need a pair of laces. 🙂
Tonight we have watched a rather odd film and tomorrow Ady is off again overnight leaving me home alone again. 🙁 Me and the children are off to soft play with Lucy and co so at least they will work some of their bounce off and I should get them to bed at a decent hour. 🙂
I quite liked Closer. Very erm.. thingy.
i get retail therapy on my own on Thursday night. 😀
Comment by Merry — 24 January 2007 @ 12:37 am
yeah, I liked Closer too.
bah to retail therapy, I can never find anything I like (myself in).
Comment by Sarah — 24 January 2007 @ 10:11 am
We liked Closer too 🙂 Jude or Clive then?
I bought my dress last weekend, and am very taken with it still 🙂
Comment by Alison — 26 January 2007 @ 3:41 pm
I think Clive. I’m not a big Jude fan and his character in that was way too fragile – tortured sensitive types are so not my thing. At least Clive was fucked up in a dangerous and slightly menacing sort of way.
Actually I think I was more taken with Natalie 😉
Comment by Nic — 26 January 2007 @ 3:47 pm
I think NP at the strip club was C’s favourite bit 😉
ah …. http://www.home-educate.me.uk/parent1/obadiah/?p=303
Comment by Alison — 26 January 2007 @ 7:22 pm