Had a really crap night’s sleep last night. I was late to bed anyway but trying to stay up until I was ready to fall asleep, while keeping half an eye on the A Team programme and the BB love stories show after that. Around midnight I finally called it a day only to lie there for a good hour or more listening to the wind howling and with a hundred things whirling round my head (which is so not like me).
I had a really disturbed night for no reason other than the wind and the children woke at 6am. Ady was up with them but once awake my nose was running, my cough was coughing and the rest of the people I live with are so bloody noisy it’s pretty impossible to sleep anyway. Yes, I am grumpy today 🙂
Got a batch of bolognaise sauce cooking in the slow cooker and decided I’d chance the weather and cleared the washing basket (wise move – it’s all dried and brought in just before the rain started mid afternoon). The children did some drawing – Davies drew Scooby Doo, then Scooby Doo with skin but no fur and then Scooby Doo’s skeleton, cut them all out and then tasked me with putting them in order (as in skin on top of bones, fur on top of skin) and then in order after he died (as in fur falls off to reveal skin, to reveal bone – I know, very cheery!) – and there was the rest of the blogring all making cute little animated versions of themselves and their children with fairy wings 😉
Then we made some birthday cards for my brother – 30 today HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRAZER! (not that he reads this obviously 😉 ). Scarlett did a sort of random swirling pattern and Davies drew a picture of Frazer all dressed in black (he usually is) with a really splendid birthday cake on a table next to him and the chair knocked over where he’d been so excited about his birthday cake. Really good picture. 🙂 Then he wrote ‘Happy Birthday’ on the front with me just telling him which letter to write next. Then we did inside. Davies wrote ‘To Frazer love Davies’ with me just telling him the letters, Tarly copied ‘To Frazer love Scarlett’ from my writing – very good pen control and she seems to be learning slightly as she goes on the writing. Davies has decided he really likes writing now apparently so that’s nice :-). We cut them out and stuck them onto folded card and then they both lost interest in that and started playing with the circus toys.
I sat and coughed and sniffed and drank tea and read my book and wished I could ring in sick for the afternoon 😉
Luckily Ali and Freya arrived and we managed to chat inbetween dealing with very noisy children who’d found the box of instruments, siblings who both wanted whatever the other one had, a major meltdown from Tarly about something both her and I had forgotten the cause of long before she’d come back out of her room to say sorry and get a cuddle – but I’ve been expecting some sort of fall out from her all week after everything she’s been through so was almost pleased to see it – almost! She’s also had a few bad nights with nightmares and has spent lots of the week sleeping curled up in my arms, refusing even Ady’s cuddles. Doubt very much I was on top form today, but Ali was functioning on even less sleep than I think I’d had so we did some BB first impressions chatter and general gossip and then Ady got home in time for me to run them to the station.
Ady fed the children and then played snakes and ladders with them (D’s current fave) and now one is asleep and the other fairly close. I’ve got experimental wine to try one glass of and see if it perks me up or at the very least helps me to sleep and I’ve not intention of getting up in the morning!
ooh freaky – I made bolognaise sauce in the slow cooker today too! Hope you feel better soon.
Comment by Kirsty — 19 May 2006 @ 7:55 pm