All a bit ‘through a haze’ today really thanks to hormones and this I can’t believe it’s not a cold (Ali that made me remember not quite your knee wellies which made me laugh 😆 ). I tried to have a lie in and catch up on some sleep but the children had other ideas and were doing lots of shrieking elephant impressions and thudding about from about 7am so I eventually gave up and got up.
I’d been putting off a phonecall to the CCCS for the last month, for no real reason other than being scared of phonecalls about financial stuff but this morning I decided to get it done and stop it hanging over me. It took about 15mins and was all very positive. I’ve blogged it over on buymelove for anyone interested in the more minor details – and indeed anyone wanting to celebrate with me having an ego stroking moment about turning things round :).
The allotment paperwork came this morning so that all feels nicely official and in hand. I’ve already got one book from the library which I’m dipping in and out of and we want to build up a proper plan of what the allotment calendar should look like which I’d like to get sorted before we actually take it over on October 1st.
So phonecall made and post arrived we headed off to Ali and Freya’s for the day. Davies got his last birthday present of a DS game he’d enjoyed playing of Freya’s that Ali had said she would get for him. He is utterly thrilled with it and proclaimed it his ‘best present!’ :). Thanks again Ali xxx
Freya had made him a fab birthday card of a dalek, all gold glittered with a little soundbox that says ‘Exterminate!’ to press – very impressive 🙂 and drove me mad all the way home listening to it ;).
The DS game meant we sort of lost Davies straight away and Scarlett, who is often as happy spectating whilst others DS as she is playing herself snuggled into his shoulder and watched as he played. Freya bimbled about outside while Ali and I hung out in the kitchen and then sat outside drinking tea and chatting. The children played Wii which Scarlett seemed pretty good at and it was all very sunny and lovely and relaxing 🙂 .
We left around 4ish as Scarlett had Rainbows tonight so we came home and she had tea – Davies has taken to eating later when Tarly and I are out on a Friday. She got changed and as we’d already discussed what she was taking for show and tell last night and decided on her scooter there was no big fuss tonight. We met Lucy and the Rs at the top of the road (Richard was coming along to see what he misses out on by staying home with Daddy for the evening while Rebecca goes to Rainbows – I think it was sufficiently boring that he won’t bother again). There are quite a few new girls this term and several of the other girls have gone up to Brownies so Scarlett feels like much more of an old timer now which is nice.
The activity tonight was cutting and sticking with old argos catalogues to create a ‘room in a house’. Most of them decided to create a bedroom and most of them went for the pink option. Scarlett did a bedroom for her and Davies and had a load of Doctor Who and Ben 10 stuff with one token pink duvet set with cats on, a pink rug like I’ve already made for her and wrote her name beautifully on the front while all the other schooled children wrote their names on the back of their work :).
At show and tell she was giddy and struggled but then so many of the others do. She then recovered and rode her scooter to show everyone. They handed out letters about the Rainbows sleepover which had Scarlett frozen with terror and loudly saying she didn’t want to go to that – bless her.
Home and Ady told them a made up on the spot bedtime story while I got dinner sorted, then we let them come back down from bed to watch Gardeners World as it had a bit about allotments on it. Scarlett had been in the bathroom with me washing my feet and hair for me in the bath and then she brushed my hair for me while we watched the TV. She is very affectionate at the moment, it’s lovely 🙂 .