Scarlett got into bed with me this morning while it was still dark. She was lovely to cuddle up to but less lovely to have conscious conversation with as I’d not got to sleep til nearly 3am, so eventually she got bored of my monosybillic answers (which probably still didn’t make sense) and got up again to wake Davies up instead.
When I joined them they were already immersed in one of their games which I had to interupt to feed them breakfast and persuade them to get dressed. They returned to it again as soon as they could. Happy children :).
I’d emailed the swimming pool to see if there was any chance of their lessons being changed as Tuesdays are going to be crazy with them going to Brownies and Sea Scouts with wet hair from swimming and empty tummies but the only other available times are Saturday mornings (clash with Wildlife Explorers and YACs) and Sunday mornings (way too early – before 9am and we are often away for weekends anyway). So Tuesdays will have to be crazy I guess.
Then we went to Tasha’s. Ady was off with Tom for the day so had left me his car which was good as mine has not been out since before the snow and still has a very thick coating of was-snow-now-ice on the roof and is the wrong side of the still very slippery pavement and drive. Must remedy that tomorrow ready for work on Thursday if it hasn’t all thawed on it’s own.
We had a fab time at Tasha’s. We ate cake and she showed me some more crochet skills while the three older children completely disappeared, playing inside and out and having a ball together :). We resolved to see each other more often and left with time to pop home for a snack before swimming. Ady and Tom arrived back just before us and Tom impressed Davies by being able to turn his transformers from cars to robots and back again :). Ady and I just looked on and thought how very young Tom is, which in turn made us feel very old :lol:.
With Ady home in time to come along to swimming with us I decided not to go in and to watch the kids with Ady. He’s not been around to watch a lesson for quite a while and was really impressed with both of them and their progress. Davies has got a really nice front crawl style now and is looking really good in the water. Scarlett is still slightly haphazard but brimming with confidence and loves it. Her goal is to catch Davies up and be in the same group as him again, which she’ll need to work hard to achieve but I think is within her reach. As Ady and I were both there and she was feeling a bit cheated I told her she could go in the big pool and one of us would watch her all the time if she stayed in the shallow end. I half expected her to be told to get out as she is pretty well known there by the lifeguards but they just smiled and said hello to her :). She is easily as capable as Davies was when he turned 8 and I was confident about him being in the pool alone then and actuallly I barely glance at her when I’m actually in the pool doing lengths so she was more watched today with me out of the pool than she normally is.
Back home again for pancakes for the kids’ tea before I took Davies to Sea Scouts. He was pleased to be back and when I went back for him 90 minutes later and caught the end of a rowdy and riotous hopping game where two boys had to put each other out of a circle with their arms folded he was clearly having a great time. He’d made friends with a lad who’d just come up from Beavers (so must be 8) and was in the middle of a trio of lads all nudging each other and laughing together. He looked right at home. He said no one mentioned school or Home Ed and that it seems to have blown over and been forgotten. He certainly got his fill of same age, same gender, socialising time today :).
Back home after some debate on stories I read the first couple of chapters of a Mr Gum book. I was then persuaded to sing the song printed in the back (sea shanty style nonsense) and Davies and Scarlett danced around to that before it was bedtime.
Ady cooked a lovely roast beef with the joint that didn’t defrost in time on Sunday. We cut it in half and I’m going to make a pie with the rest tomorrow for dinner.