Aside from my dual victories of perfecting a John Wayne walk and single handedly using a week’s supply of loo roll for your average family of four in just 12 hours I have been involved in the following:
Listing a whole load of stuff on Ebay making use of their 10p listing day. Some of it is stuff I will actually be quite sniffly about packaging up and taking to the post office so I hope it either doesn’t sell at all or at the very least doesn’t just go for it’s 99p starting price (stuff like Tarly’s Boden boots, her outfit she wore on both her 2nd and 3rd birthdays, her two summer Dora outfits from last year. All very cute but there really is no point in hanging onto them is there).
The children have done all sorts of utterly autonomous stuff, for which please feel free to read that I have neglected them all day! 🙂 They watched a dvd called An Easter Tale, which we bought 2 years ago so is getting it’s third annual spring airing. It has the sort of songs which instantly eat back into your brain again despite not having heard them for a year so it will be June before we stop humming those I suspect. 🙄
They did some drawing and some jigsaws, Davies and I played battleships for a while – we’ve yet to finish a game but that is more to do with never being Tarly free when we try, they played with the k’nex and then the geomags in a long and very complicated game about W&G with cameo appearances from various of Scarlett’s soft toys called imaginative things like ‘Tigerry’ for a stuffed tiger, ‘Elephanty’ for a stuffed elephant, ‘Chicky’ for a stuffed chick – you get the picture!
Davies answered my mobile phone when it rang and I was hanging washing out – first time he’s done that. It was Ady, which he knew as my ringtone for Ady is a recording of him saying ‘Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello’ but still quite odd to have him walking out into the garden to me chatting away into the phone and then saying ‘here’s Mummy’ and handing it over. 🙂 Sure that fits into life skills or something somehow!
Then I took a phonecall which I snuck upstairs to take away from the children during which they came to report each other for various crimes and ask me to get them apples to eat. They also constructed a farm using soft toys and fences made of videos. There was a blue geomag panel pond and a petting corner. So I spent some time admiring that before they allowed it to be dismantled by which time Ady was home.
Tomorrow I have nothing planned although I have things to do like returning library books, getting a new battery for my watch so hopefully I will be able to venture out of the house!
Oh, thats annoying. I was going to do eBay again, but then I thought the 10p was for BIN listings, so I didn’t bother. Arse. I should be organised and get a lot on turbo lister just ready to go, but I hate it sitting around in the office for weeks, as it never seems worth putting it away again after it’s been photo-ed.
Comment by Joyce — 24 March 2006 @ 9:33 am
You’re right Joyce, I just checked the orignial email and it was for BIN. Ah well, I’ve been meaning to get it listed for ages anyway!
Comment by Nic — 24 March 2006 @ 9:51 am