With some good bits and some bad ones really;
Bad bits –
Scarlett is very gunky eyed – I have put more cream in them and they don’t really appear to be bothering her too much but I hope they improve tomorrow as I will feel awful bringing her all weepy and contagious 🙁
She is also fairly moany and whiny – swaying between being quite happy to play with Davies and being mortally offended if I so much as breath when she is sitting on my lap clinging to me 🙁
Davies and I had a bit of a falling out (although I would imagine he has long since forgotten it) when Ady got home as he got all cheeky and answered me back a couple of times. I don’t want a stepford child and I welcome him questioning me and challenging me to a degree but I will not accept a four year old saying ‘no’ or ‘well I’ll do it anyway’ to me. As I said to Ady I over-reacted within context of what he did but I see so many children who clearly have no respect for their parents and routinely defy them for the hell of it that I never want to be going down that road. I hope that by retaining some level of being the boss we will be saved from it at least for a while.
Not sure whether I slept funny (or as Ady said slept at all – hah!) or if I have pulled something with all the incessant coughing but my back is really playing up – it’s fine if I assume the walking position of a hunchback but otherwise it is very stiff.
Good stuff –
Davies is doing really well with his 100 easy lessons. We seem to have fallen into a pattern of doing it in bed before his story and although more often than not I end up growling at him to pay attention and get his hands away from his mouth (something he does a lot which really bugs me) he is really joyous at the fact he is able to read a few words and that he is actually finding it a fairly easy and managable task 🙂 I imagine it will fall by the wayside a bit next week but at last I really do feel we are on the way to learning to read – hurrah!!
Saw Julie today – we normally have a twice a week get together but I hadn’t seen her since last Friday so we had a good old catch up which was nice. Have promised to ring her next week to let her know how we are getting on 🙂
This morning was spent tackling the pile of monthly cheques to credit cards and so on, dealing with the post and holiday stuff like cancelling the papers and the milk, then just as we were loading into the car my Dad arrived and seemed quite upset to find out we were on out way out. I arranged for him to come back this afternoon.
Then off to soft play where the kid played pretty well – Davies loves it there now we go regularly and normally Scarlett does too, but she was clearly not herself and really wanted me to go round with her which was not an option as far as I was concerned 🙂 She also needs watching more than Davies as she is not above simply shoving smaller children out of her way – she is not malicious about it, or intentionally spiteful, just used to playing with older children and perhaps a bit too heavy handed. She has a determination that other kids seem to defer to and respect too which means even slightly older or bigger kids might back down, which TBH is probably not what she needs 😉 Maybe some of those other two year old fellow little madams will bring her down a bit next week! Anyway she decided she was hungry after about an hour so we had lunch there and had planned to go back in for a bit but I just thought Scarlett had had enough so we came home and Dad came back over.
I feel horribly unprepared for going away on Saturday – but in the way that you can only start preparing for the night before you go if that makes sense. Tomorrow morning I am going to start getting stuff ready to load the car up with, maybe get some baking done if time and childrens’ frame of mind allows, then Tumble Tots (which incidentally Davies has decided he doesn’t want to go to anymore grrr!) , then round to Dad’s for a bit then home to start loading the car up (after Ady has taken two seats out of it, hoovered and otherwise excavated it!) ready to go on Saturday.
You gonna wave at us on the way past then? Actually I have no idea if you go anywhere near us, geography, what’s that then?
Comment by jax — 03 February 2005 @ 10:33 pm
You gonna wave at us on the way past then? Actually I have no idea if you go anywhere near us, geography, what’s that then?
Comment by jax — 03 February 2005 @ 10:34 pm
Grrr, I hate it when that happens!
Comment by jax — 03 February 2005 @ 10:34 pm
Ah, if I’ve got your home town right, and you follow the rac suggested route, you pass within a mile and a third of our house, somewhat over half way through your journey. If you need loo breaks/ cuppas or just somewhere to let the children out, do feel free to call 😉 (You might need to email me for directions though!)
Comment by jax — 03 February 2005 @ 10:36 pm
Ooh is that taking into account our stopover at Karen’s? If so then yes please!
Will email you…
Comment by Nic — 03 February 2005 @ 10:59 pm
grr, at least you’ve *got* a car to pack!
Comment by Sarah — 04 February 2005 @ 8:39 am
That sounds like a good time to have a break Nic – we are about 2 1/2 hours from Jax up the A1.
Comment by Karen b — 04 February 2005 @ 9:11 am
2 1/2 hours Karen?? You must live well past Durham then, I’ve just said under 2! It only takes just over 2 to Sunderland from here 😉
Comment by jax — 04 February 2005 @ 11:46 am
We can do from ours to the Angel in 2 hours if we step on it (which is slightly more than C’s tolerance, but she can cope fi she knows that’s where we’re going to stop)
Comment by jan — 04 February 2005 @ 12:44 pm
Hm, my two hours wasn’t particularly stepping on it, but does require clear roads, which is probably asking a lot.
Comment by jax — 04 February 2005 @ 2:00 pm