Tried really hard to be all accessible and available for the children today and I managed it a bit.
We built a lego house together and chatted a bit about how to build stronger walls by staggering the blocks instead of building one on top of another.
I managed to book Tarly’s birthday party at the now ‘usual’ Goddard party venue, she dictated her guest list and we made a start on making invites. We looked at various bits and pieces on ebay to get ideas for party activities. Davies cut out some paper princesses and coloured them in – he also managed to snip his finger with the scissors 🙄
They then started to get involved in some game or another so I took myself upstairs for half an hours peace and quiet and laid on the bed with a book – and fell asleep! 😳 Only dozing but I felt really crap when I woke up. I’ve never been able to ‘nap’ and even when the children were tiny babies I never had the little sleeps when they sleep that everyone recommends. Unless I am going to sleep for a good couple of hours (i.e. a night!) I just feel worse for having a bit of sleep than if I didn’t bother at all.
Managed to rouse myself to cook some soup for the childrens’ tea. Ady got home in time for Davies and I to go to Badgers. Davies didn’t really want to go tonight and Ady was quite happy to ‘let him off’ but I insisted as we’ve missed the last two weeks and I think he needed some time to go and join in with the group anyway. So I sat and read in the car for an hour under the interior light while he had a great time. They had a Halloween party with just loads of running around games and there was some sort of ‘bring a friend’ thing going on which Davies seems to think is going to be a more regular feature – in which case we need to line up lots of visits from everyone for Mondays please so he can parade his friends at Badgers as special guest appearances ;-). He came out clutching a cup full of sweets he’d won and explaining how he’d chosen purple ones for me, blue for Ady and yellow for Tarly to bring home and share – I love that about my children, when Tarly had stitches in her chin and got stickers for being brave she chose the dinosaur ones to share with Davies :-). He declared Badgers ‘brilliant!’ tonight so me pulling rank was a good move. 🙂
My tooth is still playing up – I was almost in tears with the pain when we got back from Badgers but I’ve taken some painkillers and poked at it with a cotton wool bud to get some yuk out of it and it’s ok again at the moment. Sorry TMI 😳 Fortunately unlike the last time I was in floor pacing levels of pain and torture I am able to turn to the bottle of brandy for medicinal purposes if needs be at 3am so I am comforting myself with that thought and intend to take a couple more painkillers and get an early night pretty soon. I’m determined to catch that extra hours sleep at some point this week 😉
Hi,
Missed you at group today – hope you’re all feeling better soon.
Comment by Allie — 31 October 2006 @ 12:03 am
Thanks Allie, hoping to be back again next week 🙂
Comment by Nic — 31 October 2006 @ 12:06 am
I would suggest if you were leaving blog comments at 12.06, the early night was a bit of a fantasy 😉 Hope you feel better today though.
Comment by Joyce — 31 October 2006 @ 8:48 am
‘Pulling rank’???? On Ady or D?
Comment by Chris — 31 October 2006 @ 9:17 am
Ah the clock is wrong still – it was 11.06, which is still loads later than intended. Tarly woke coughing and ended up on the sofa with me for about an hour, then I sat on her bedroom floor and within ten minutes of me finally getting into bed she appeared upstairs and stayed there all night. Tossing and turning. And coughing!!!!!!
Comment by Nic — 31 October 2006 @ 10:27 am
Chris, pulled rank with Ady of course, the children are autonomous don’t you know? 😉
Comment by Nic — 31 October 2006 @ 10:28 am
Hi Nic, *waving* Thanks for the password. 🙂
Good luck with the toothache! urgh I remember that feeling well, there’s nothing quite like it is there? 🙁
Comment by Gill — 31 October 2006 @ 3:57 pm