Friday I’m in love

We had a low key morning at home this morning before heading out to Tasha’s just before 11 to surprise her by being on time for possibly the first time since we first met them!

Had a really lovely few hours at theirs with Davies and Toby spending the whole time upstairs playing, Scarlett flitting between playing with them for a while, then getting bored and wandering back down to us, playing with Vinnie for a while and then going back to the boys again. I knitted, Tasha and I chatted and I admired her lovely new kitchen :).

We stayed way longer than I’d planned and finally got home around 4pm in time to shove some pizza dough in. Davies and Scarlett have been watching one of the Star Wars films (Revenge of the Sith? means nothing to me) which I’d got from work and apparently ‘explains everything’ and came with a disc 2 with loads of extras on it so they’d been watching that and enthusing about it. Scarlett had a speedy pasta tea (she doesn’t like pizza) and then Ady arrived home in time for me to drop Scarlett off at Rainbows and whizz over to Asda to pick up this years Tickled Pink t shirt. Back in time to collect Scarlett again who was clutching a flyer for this Sundays church service along with an invite to the childrens breakfast club beforehand. She was very enthusiastic about this as were several other children I could hear telling their parents they ‘definitely wanted to go’. I asked Scarlett why and she said they’d been telling them all about food and they would be toast and everything. I explained that the ‘and everything’ would be about Jesus and she decided against it after all saying ‘Jesus and toast just don’t go together. I can have toast at home on it’s own’. It does annoy me rather. I know Guides is an organisation that pledges to ‘love my God’ and so on and I know it is held in a church hall and tbh I’d probably be okay about them teaching them the odd bit of religious stuff as that is something I can counter with ‘some people believe that and others believe this, you get to make up your own mind’. But bribing little kids to church with ‘fun’ and ‘toast’ just smacks a bit of ‘do you want to see some puppies?’ to me. Surely if God isn’t enough of a lure then baked goods probably won’t be either?

We read some which we’re enjoying, including Ady who was listening but then criticised me for not affecting an Irish accent. Might just do that tomorrow ;). Davies also learnt the hard way that cheat codes for X box games don’t necessarily make it more fun when he got me to find him some for a Star Wars game and then decided that without the challenge of needing to play well to win it lost all it’s fun. We googled extensively for removal of cheat code tips but could find none and he’s had to start the game again as a new player to get back to playing fair. I think the odd helping hand on these games is nice but clearly taking away all the variables means you’re just walking through the game with no need to actually play it.

Ady and I watched the first episode of Flash Forward rather dubiously. Not at all sure I have it in me to commit to 22 episodes of something but we might try the second episode.