Coughalot & Son

So if there is one single thing guaranteed to get me googling for divorce lawyers and adoption agencies it is spouse or offspring with coughs. And guess what? I’m bloody surrounded by them!

Anyway, dark and evil thoughts of ways to stop them from coughing aside it’s been an OK day today. Davies is tired from two late nights, early mornings and waking ups in the middle, Scarlett is tired from two nights with small hour wanderings round the house, Ady is tired from dealing with the early mornings and he’s in the throes of the poorliness and I’m generally tired and although over feeling crap I still feel entitled to the recuperation period which I’m clearly not going to get! 😉 So none of us were at our best today. Added to the mix was me alternately fretting about the phonecall, feeling guilty for not having any enthusiasm or inclination to ‘make puppets’ with Davies and knowing there were at least 400 tasks I could be getting on with and feeling productive about but prefering to spend ages researching a potential career choice on the internet instead.

We did have plenty of arts and crafts though, by way of Davies making his own stick puppets, me sitting with them drawing and colouring for a good half an hour, I read a huge pile of library books aloud to one, other or both of them, I sorted out the coats, I did a load of washing and got it dry, I cooked a dinner, Davies played on the Nick Jr site and also had a little look at BBC jam although I think my assistance is required for a proper first look round, I brushed Scarlett’s hair and plaited it and she’s spent a goodly portion of the day cuddled up on the sofa next to me being very cute and loving and of course I did indeed gather together all the relevant paperwork for said scary phonecall and carry it out.

So in many ways I guess it’s been productive in it’s own little way 🙂 I’ve been doing loads of background pondering about autonomy the last couple of weeks and had a couple of interesting chats with people about it (Julie and Ali in particular) – which I will try and get round to clarifying enough to blog at some future point, including a more honed Ed Phil – which given Davies is now Officially Home Educated is probably something I should have sort of prepared, just in case and all. I think I’ll probably keep if for after Melrose though as that’s sure to sway me in one way or another once again.