hearts and flowers

Work all day for me today but Ady was home (lieu day from appearing on national tv ;)). I had a good day, I did a new display first thing for the quick reads initiativewhich was immediately successful with four books being issued today :). There is just so much I love about my job it is really great 🙂 I really feel like it is a culmination of all the skills I have picked up in previous jobs along the way and whilst I have had plenty of jobs where I have felt valued and known I was doing well it was normally where I was at the top of the tree with regard to structure so to get that same feeling of fitting in within a team is very nice :). It is certainly not without it’s frustrations but for my 11 hours a week the good far outweighs the bad.

We had a costume character appearance from Maisie Mouse this morning for Storytime. I don’t have much to do with Storytime really – Baby Rhyme Time seems to have been allocated to be my ‘thing’ but none of the children ran screaming from Maisie and we had loads of issues of various Maisie stories and dvds afterwards so it was deemed a success :).

I came home for lunch with a plan to ‘do’ Valentines Day. Ady and I don’t really make much of it but Davies and Scarlett were aware of it this year and I’d bought Ratatouille on dvd as a joint present for them along with a small teddy and some chocolate hearts for one of them. So I dashed to Woolworths and got a candy heart handbag and to the charity shop for a soft toy kitten for 39pence and came home to give the kitten and handbag to Tarly and the bear with hearts to Davies. Only to find my Dad had ignored me telling him last week that he didn’t need to come today and was here to look after D and S for the afternoon! 😯 He stayed for lunch and then headed off again. Davies had made me a little finger puppet of me wearing a heart top which is very cute and Scarlett had applied much glitter and glue to a piece of paper along with several handdrawn heart shapes :). I got Ady a toblerone (traditional gift for Christmas, Valentines Day, Fathers Day and any other occassion I am not sure what to get for him for!) and a bottle of pink champagne (which I have drunk most of this evening! :oops:) while he got me a box of chocolates.

I headed off back to work for the afternoon and Dad left at the same time as me. Ady and the childen have done various things I am told although Scarlett confessed that she prefers me being home (I think she was just saying that actually as I’m sure Ady focusses more on them than I do! :lol:). When I arrived home this evening we all watched Ratatouille together before they went off to bed. Ady and I drank the pink champagne, had dinner and gave many drunken proclamations to each other about how ‘they’ said we’d never last as a couple, but just look at us now! 😆

Tomorrow we are meeting up with our Every Other Friday Friends (or EOFF as I will now be referring to them, which is a select group of handpicked adults and children :lol:) to visit Brighton Museum which I have never been to and just for colour and to get down with the kids we’re going to go by train, so expect public transport anedotes aplenty in tomorrow’s blogpost ;).