We’ve had a very laid back and relaxed day at home today. Davies and Scarlett have been utterly self-directed and spent some time on x box finding a graffitti design extra on some racing game my brother lent Davies where you choose the spray size on the paint and draw stuff. They collaborated on that to create a night sky complete with planets and Orion’s belt. Ady emailed me to say he is going to a very interesting looking trade show tomorrow and did we want to go too, so a quick rearrange of online shopping delivery schedulded for tomorrow and a quick registration of me and the children online to attend and that is all sorted to tomorrow :).
They got their DSs out next and played with them for a while. Scarlett has managed to delete all her progress on Cooking Mama so spent some time working through that to unlock recipes again. Davies played a bit of Simpsons and a bit of Harry Potter which he needed some help with reading on. I snuck off to do a bit of baking (we had some black bananas so I wanted to make cake with them) but Scarlett followed me so her and I made banana and chocolate chip cakes and at Davies’ request some chocolate chip rock cakes. While all this was happening I also did several loads of laundry and spent some time with the bantams.
We had lunch and Davies and Scarlett went off to play again. They got the plasticine out and made various things with that. Davies’ included a fortune teller complete with crystal ball and Scarlett made a rabbit. When they’d had enough of that they cleared it all away and got out the musical instrument box and set about a game where Davies played something and Scarlett had to act out how it made her feel. I wasn’t paying much attention but there was lots of prancing about being a unicorn to the twinkly xylophone banging and much being a mournful puppy to the harmonica 😆 Then they went back to the plasticine.
I spent some time online, drank equal ocean sized volumes of tea and water. It was my aim to increase the water I drink this month. I have certainly done that although it has not been entirely consistent. I’ll continue to keep it up though and be making another small change towards a healthier lifestyle for March alongside it. I sat and read It’s Not Easy Being Green which was very interesting, particularly the bit about keeping pigs. I also skim-read a book called A new you in 21 days which had caught my eye when shelving books the other day at work and looked interesting. It wasn’t! Having seen biggification mentioned by Sarah I googled it to find out what it was and played that for a while – the children moved over to observe and both want to have a play on that sometime soon too.
I made the children’s tea – Scarlett had one bantam egg and one duck egg with toast – very funny contrast between the two sizes 🙂 and having not had the tv on all day they decided to put Little Shop of Horrors on to watch while they ate. Then it was time for Davies to go to Beavers so we walked him round there. Ady arrived home and I went to collect Davies from Beavers. We were kept waiting ages while they finished off some Mothers Day present they were making :). I happened to be in earshot as the leader told the mother of the very disruptive little boy that he has been warned that unless his behaviour dramatically improves he will not be allowed to remain at Beavers any more. It was met with smirks from both her and her son so I imagine it is either not being taken seriously or they have been expecting it a while and have been surprised at how long he has been allowed to stay – I know I have overheard her almost bragging about threats to exclude him from school :shock:. I dropped Davies home and dashed to Sainsburys to get stuff for dinner which meant no stories tonight but they did get to watch Simpsons instead :roll:.
Life in Cold Blood and a lovely curry for us and I’m off to bed early as tomorrow will be a long day and the rest of the week is shaping up to be much the same.
grrr does that game ever end? i gave up when my hand started to ache 😆
Comment by Liza — 26 February 2008 @ 12:23 am
btw 2869079, what score did you get?
Comment by Liza — 26 February 2008 @ 12:24 am
2313938 and that was only because some inconsiderate idoit decided to ring me! DAMN this game!
Comment by Simon — 26 February 2008 @ 9:45 am
😆 sorry guys! Erm not sure of high score, I played it for ages last night but didn’t check score. Can’t decide if a mouse would make it easier than glide pad on laptop (or whether it would be really sad to go and find my mouse just for the purpose of that game!)
Comment by Nic — 26 February 2008 @ 7:41 pm
yes it would be really sad but you still need to go find it and post your score 😆
Comment by Liza — 27 February 2008 @ 12:06 am