I’ve got a really sore throat today. It started yesterday in the car but I put it down to the aircon, lots of coughing, oh and the yelling at The Gruffalo. But no, it’s gotten worse today and my glands are up a bit too. I’ve got Alison-itis clearly. 🙁
So having given Davies and Scarlett the choice of going to group or not today (they were both tired) and had both of them assure me they do really like group but actually just wanted to stay home today instead we did just that.
Davies played Xbox for most of the morning, Tarly played with geomags and I sat putting off various things I could have gone and done in favour of sitting on the sofa drinking tea, which I think is probably an equally important past time!
Tarly and I made soup for lunch. Cheese and crispy bacon, which we’d got from a soup recipe book at my Mum’s at the weekend and happened to have all the ingredients for in the kitchen already. Tarly did some garlic chopping, potato peeling and chopping and some cheese grating. We had the soup with some of those part bake rolls and I thought it was lovely. Tarly hated it and Davies only liked the bacon so sat picking that out :roll:. At least they tried it though.
I made a pumpkin soup from the same book which is ready to be heated for lunch tomorrow.
Tarly and I did some of a workbook she’d pulled off the shelf at the weekend. It’s one on numbers and is patronisingly bad and repetitive so we didn’t get very far before she was bored and lost interest and wanted me to do the copying numbers which I explained was a waste of time as I already knew how to write numbers. That led to me explaining how I had indeed gone to school when I was a child which I’m not sure Tarly had quite realised before. She is adamant she doesn’t want to go ever but it’s something she’s never had any sort of good press about before and given how much she wants to be like me in every way I wonder if that little nugget of information may well come back up at some point. Davies was doing that ‘I’m not actually looking at your workbook but I have noticed it in passing and could easily answer all the questions if I so chose to do so’ type thing where he was muttering the answers from across the other side of the room and even offered to come over and help a couple of times. 😆 He was playing with some foam blocks at the time and making cubes and other 3d objects and then testing the stabilty and weightbearingness with plastic toys balanced on them.
My new phone arrived about 3pm so I sat playing with that while the children went off to play in Davies’ bedroom. I had been sitting there gearing myself up to doing something with them – I have some window glass paint which we’ve agreed to paint our landing window with and a couple of other things I was considering breaking open to do with the children but it seemed crazy to tear them away from their game so I left them to it.
Ady got home and I took Davies to Badgers. They were learning about braile today and Davies came out with his name written in braile and a good basic understanding of how it all works. The parents were called in at the end to be told that the unit is likely to close before Christmas due to lack of volunteers to be an assistant leader. There was lots of ‘unless one of you could step in’ type insinuating all of which I kept out of. Lisa has asked me before if I’d consider it and quite aside from the fact I would loathe spending my precious hour of freedom a week doing kiddy stuff like painting with a load of children the whole reason we take Davies to Badgers is so he gets that time away from me each week. It would rather defeat the object really if I was there with him. I could feel other eyes on me as everyone knows I just sit in my car outside for the hour so technically I *could* go in and be the assistant leader. They will give us details of other local groups, I think there is one not too far from us in Worthing but I don’t know which day of the week it is or what time – clearly if it clashes with a work day for me then it will have to be ruled out. It’s a real shame, Davies has loved Badgers and Tarly was already looking forward to going when she is 5, I love the age mix there and the informative style of the sessions. Fingers crossed that we find a nearby group on the right day.
And with that I’m about to go to bed and try and sleep off my beastly throat.
Think we’ve got it too 🙁
Comment by layla — 14 November 2006 @ 7:18 pm
definitely Alison-itis then 🙂
Hope as few of you as possible get it xxx
Comment by Nic — 14 November 2006 @ 7:24 pm
Just call me Typhoid Mary 🙁
Comment by Alison — 14 November 2006 @ 9:19 pm
I’d still cuddle you 🙂 x
Comment by Nic — 14 November 2006 @ 9:52 pm