Thanks for all very welcome comments of sympathy, empathy and brackets for yesterday :), you’re all lovely.x
Off to work this morning, so predictably the alarm at 8am woke me before the children which meant a mad dash with them still in pjs mid-breakfast when Lucy and The Rs arrived. We so couldn’t get out of the house to get to school in the morning 😳
It was a really busy morning at work, I like Wednesday mornings, it’s a nice colleague mix and the Childrens Services Librarian for West Sussex was in doing the BWR too, which was good cos I really like her. I got the course details through for my baby rhyme time and childrens story time training in a couple of weeks, after which I’ll start doing storytime on my Thursday shifts which I’m sort of looking forward to. We have to come with our favourite nursery rhyme (need to think of one), a favourite children’s book (need to think back to pre-school age books rather than what I’d read now, probably We’re Going On A Bear Hunt I think) and a teddy or dolly – I imagine that won’t be a problem to select from our house :lol:. I had tea break with my boss which we spent talking about how the library could improve it’s marketing at new adult borrowers which was interesting – definitely an area I’d love to move into working in long term if the opportunity arose, if life pans out that way over the next 5 years or so.
Home to a fairly chaotic couple of hours. Lucy and I really wanted to talk and went to extremes of moving into different rooms but kept being followed by interupting children, and not even interupting for decent reasons, it was like that interupting sheep knock knock joke. I lost my temper and shouted at all of them when they were discovered ritually treading hula hoops into the lounge carpet which finally seemed to buy us 10 minutes for the end of our conversation. Actually Davies has been a bit craving of my personal attention the last week or so and I realised we’ve not had any days without seeing other people really so I’m hoping for a quieter week next week. A drive from home to the PYO farm and back again with me chatting to them both in the car rather than trying to talk to another grown up seemed to almost magically sort him out temporarily so I’m pretty sure that’s what his problem is. It’s just that he tends to show his attention seeking in a clingy way which brings out a very strong urge in me to run away rather than meet his need for lots of cuddles and attention. 😳 I’m a bit crap with neediness.
So Lucy and The Rs left and we headed over to the PYO to meet Julie, Jack and Maisie, who we’ve not seen for a couple of weeks although we’ve caught up a few times on the phone. We rode round on the tractor and picked eating apples, cooking apples and blackberries – planning some Milly Molly Mandy style endeavours for the blackberries and cooking apples – and the eating apples have already had serious tracks made in them – they are lovely picked straight off the tree though :). Having explained that we needed to pick off the tree rather than the ground and that the higher up the tree the more sun the apples would have had and the nicer they would be I was most amused to find both D & S up the trees picking 😆
. We spent so long at the blackberries, with the children finally running up and down and entertaining themselves while Julie and I picked and chatted that we lost track of time and suddenly a landrover appeared with the owner of the farm inside saying that they had closed and all the staff wanted to go home please! Our two cars were the only ones left in the carpark and they’d done a circuit of the farm looking for us, finally finding us in the blackberries. We all piled into his landrover and he took us back to the entrance to pay with all four children munching away on his not paid for yet apples 😳 which just made him laugh! 😆
We parted company and we came home with the children eating yet more apples on the way. They had toast for tea (far too full of their five a day to be wanting proper tea!) and watched Polar Express before having a bath to wash PYO dirt off them, while I got ready to go out with my Mum. Every so often she decides to take me out for a meal – she did about this time last year. This time we went to a chinese restaurant with an eat all you like menu so we chose three starters and six main courses, a bottle of wine and totally troughed out on lovely food 🙂 It was really nice, finished off with a couple of Baileys and door to door dropping me off. Couldn’t ask for more really. Ady enjoyed a night off to eat pie (a dinner I don’t like) and watch Band of Brothers on dvd with the prologic on really loud (I could hear it outside the house :roll:) so everyone was happy.
glad you had a better day – apart from the hula hoops which would make me lose my temper too.
had to lol at the farm owner driving round looking for you 🙂
Comment by Liza — 23 August 2007 @ 8:48 am
Good. Chinese meal sounds lovely. I find it a bit astonishing when kids just trample things – not something mine usually do. The other day we were at Hove Lagoon and two boys just kept running across our towels, which were drying on the grass. It wasn’t deliberate, they were just oblivious.
Comment by Allie — 23 August 2007 @ 9:06 am