Moments of testing today with the small people. Minor irritations all round really; I managed to get fired up about my insurance complaint again by a phonecall from the people who’s invoice hasn’t been paid – so I fired off a 3 page letter complaining and got that in the post, I ended up telling the children that unless they could live together without squabbling then one of them would have to leave – and invited open discussion on who should be the one to leave and why- it was a lot like The Apprentice actually, maybe I should have set them challenges and pitted them against each other properly! 😉
And the h key on my laptop is a bit sticky (probably splashed with wine) which means I am dropping h’s all over the place. This, along with not pronouncing the t’s in the word butter is a big pet hate for me so rest assured if I type were when it should be where it is accidental and will annoy me as much in re-reading as it annoyed you!
We did some Floam-ing first thing. Davies made me laugh loads by exclaiming, hands plunged into the pot ‘the advert is right Mummy. It is fun you can feel!’ 🙂 They seem to like playing with it playdoh style but we did get out the papier mache eggs we made last week and directed me in a couple of zigzag lines round them. We also cut open Davies’ and plan to line it with tissue paper for him to collect any easter eggs he finds in. While doing that we watched Dora and all sang along as it was an episode with a cool song!
After lots of negotiation and a little more ranting we headed off to Sainsburys to buy a few bits. I needed a few herbs and spices for some muffiny pursuits and it’s always such a good idea to take wayward children out to embarrass you in public I find 😉
The children had some lunch and watched our Spider video while I did some very theraputic spice crushing, pounding and grinding! Then Scarlett and I read some Dr Seuss books from the library with Davies half listening and half playing with a kit of straws and plastic connectors to make stuff with. He’s started to follow instructions and copy ideas from books in things like lego, k’nex and so on which was something he’d never do before so that’s a nice development. I don’t want to crush his own imagination and design but it’s good to see him able to transfer what he sees into something he can make.
Then Ali rang to say her and Freya had completed the first and second legs of their journey and actually they were tired and their feet hurt and they had wine so could we go and get them now please! 🙂 so we did!
There was much playing in Tarly’s room today, there was some laying down of the law about space hoppers not in the lounge and I did allow my anal side out to whip the hoover round when it became clear there was more kinder egg than carpet on the floor but Ali and I certainly managed some good chats and the children seemed to enjoy a good play. There was dressing up, bed bouncing and who knows what else but all easily sorted by the kitchen timer tidy up game – which the children completely ignored but Ali and I participated in with vigor! There was spaghetti tea for small people and then Ady arrived home in time to run them back to the station while I bathed children and washed spaghetti and Floam out of their hair.
Davies was lovely all afternoon, one of those occassions when you are just all glowy at how lovely your offspring is. Of course it was shattered again as the door closed behind Ali and he stopped revelling in being the only male in a house with two small giddy girls and two slightly inebriated women all thinking he was fab and morphed back into a rather overexcited, not listening to his mother five year old little boy again. 🙄
Tomorrow we’re off to check out the potential venue for a new local group and then weather permitting we’re going to walk round a lake / feed the ducks at Arundel with Julie, Jack and Maisie.
Thanks for being there to share wine and stuff with yesterday. Good luck with venue, look forward to hearing about that…
Davies – extraordinary how they can change like that, he was such a paragon all afternoon.
Kind of comforting though. F continued to make that bloody noise over and over again on the train for a bit, and has even done it twice this morning already.
Comment by Ali — 17 March 2006 @ 9:44 am
My ‘t’ key had some similar problem yesterday and I was dropping ‘t’s all over the place, very annoying. Eventually I took the keyboard up and discovered a crumb underneath the ‘t’ pad … that will teach me to eat and use the computer at the same time 😉
Comment by Sarah — 17 March 2006 @ 11:40 am