Got to admit it’s getting better…

Way better day today 🙂

First thing Scarlett did some painting – really coming along in a 100% autonomous way her painting – she pretty much fills a sheet of paper with colours, there is a main object (usually me or Ady) and then a full background of sky and grass. Davies was on the pc playing Green Eggs and Ham – he seems to be doing a lot of stuff with words oblivious to the fact that he is actually learning how to read as a result. So thrilling Home Ed in action in a very low key no effort on my part type way. 🙂 Prior to that he had been watching The Nightmare Before Christmas which my Mum had gotten us on dvd for Christmas. Didn’t catch enough of it myself to pass verdict yet but I imagine I will do sometime very soon given how done to death films are in this house! 😉

I went up to get dressed and Scarlett came with me and ‘helped’ put my make up on for me. Actually she’s not bad really – she rubbed in my foundation, had a pretty good go at mascara (I know, how brave am I allowing a 3yo near my eyes with a wand!?!) rubbed in blusher and did my eyeshadow – and I didn’t look remotely like I belonged in a circus wearing oversize shoes and a water squirting flower afterwards either! 🙂 Then she came downstairs with me and helped me peel and cut vegetables to make beef stew while Davies swapped from Green Eggs and Ham to Nick jr.

Then we headed off into town for a few bits and pieces – I tried to take the slow cooker back but failed as it needs to be returned to the branch I bought it from, picked up a few bits and pieces of food and had a charity shop trawl which turned up nothing but was nice to be out browsing just the same. Davies went in the £1 shop by himself armed with his £1 to buy bird food for a making bird feeders activity I saw on the BBC website the other day and we have the perfect tree just outside our lounge window for hanging bird feeders off of to watch them eat so we’ll probably do that tomorrow.

We came home and had lunch and then Ros and co arrived. There was playing although there also seemed to be a fair amount of interupting adults chatter but the girls played with glitter make up and the Dora house, the boys played at dressing up and then they all ended up playing some form of Narnia game which judging by all the coathangers strewn about Davies’ bedroom actually did involve getting into his wardrobe! 🙂 Ros brought cakes and an ear and very importantly Heat magazine, which I have gorged on all evening! 🙂 Ok so I’m shallow and flippant but I know the important things in life!

The children then amazed me by both eating beef stew for their tea!!!! Ady arrived home, Scarlett fell asleep almost instantly after her milk, Davies got to stay up and watch Masterchef Goes Large with us which he considers a real treat – to get to stay up after the kids tv has been turned off, after Scarlett has gone to sleep and to listen to us chatting and to join in too really makes him feel all grown up. 🙂 He fell asleep pretty quickly too once in bed and Ady and I have had our beef stew and had a good long chat about plans for the future, what’s important to us and where we would like to be. We have plans – nothing firm or any more than speculation and dreams but at least we have those and from such starting points great things could just happen…