Clock watching….

The trouble with being upbeat generally is that rather than doing a constant Eyeore you end up being positive until the very last possible moment and then have all your doubts crash upon you at once! Only an hour and a half to go before scary phonecall…

This morning Davies wanted to make puppets using the library books for ideas and inspiration but we really have very little in the way of puppet making materials. So he made some stick puppets using paper, scissors and glue (suddenly his cutting out skills are really very good, not sure how that happened and not entirely sure I’m so thrilled about all the small bits of paper scattered around the carpet as a result but hey!). I rang my Mum – who manages a charity shop and asked her to bring over some scraps of materials next time we see her (probably tomorrow) cut from the stuff which goes into their rags as being unsaleable. Hopefully that will get him started anyway.

He’s now playing Nick jr, which for some reason it has only just occurred to me to make the home page on the computer in the playroom so he just has to open up firefox and off he goes without me needing to help at all. He’s a bit groggy today so I think a couple of days indoors is just what he needs.

I have sorted out the coats in our hall and hung some wrong season ones up, Scarlett decided that actually she rather likes Davies’ outgrown winter coat so that’s been put aside for her as have a couple of pairs of Davies’ old wellies, everything else I have photographed ready for ebaying but realised we’ll be heading off to northern parts a week tomorrow so ebaying today would be a bad idea, will save it for when we get back.

And now I’m going to have a quick tidy up and read to Scarlett for a while to take my mind off it all. Back later…