cos our season ticket runs out on 2nd June and at £38 per person per year it won’t make it onto our priority list of investments of our meagre spare cash fund 🙁
This morning despite being up for three full hours before we had to go I still ended up dashing about at the last minute being all irrational and shouty. The children can both get themselves dressed now, which is excellent – I chuck clothes at them (they are of course capable of doing that themselves too but I am still to controlling / altogether too aware of the ‘standard’ of sartorial taste they would pull off to let them 😉 ) and they chuck their pjs back at me. Sometimes this takes a fair bit of nagging / coercion / threats of not going out or leaving the house in pjs / yelling and tears, other times it is straightforward and stress free! Today it was stress free. But then I remembered I needed to post an ebay parcel I hadn’t packaged up yet, and I still hadn’t made a picnic and Scarlett’s hair went beyond it’s normal worst acceptable level of tangled-ness on Tuesday so I did that and we left about 15 minutes after I’d planned to – which wasn’t too bad really and probably a tribute to the fact we can actually get out of the house and maybe even hope for the future 🙂 I did get four baskets of clean washing all put away too! Wish I could learn to choose my battles as quickly as I’ve learnt to enjoy housewifeliness 🙄
As it happened Lucy pulled up after we did anyway and we were less than 10 minutes late. We listened to some classics for children music on the way over which we’ve not done for a while so that was nice.
The children had a great time all round really, looked at the animals, played on all the various interactive bits, made full use of everything in the playground and generally made the very most of the day. The weather held all day and ended up very warm and sunny so that was good. Only paid for a cup of tea too so that was frugal 🙂 I would have taken pictures but I think we just have so many of them in various positions around Drusillas it seemed fairly pointless somehow!
We left around 3pm and I did some more shouting on the way home as they suddenly decided having played beautifully all day together to wind each other up and whinge. Sorted ourselves out by the time we got home and played I spy on the way, called into the post office to post my parcel and to the train station to find out about network rail cards.
When we got home I took to my car with a bin liner and cleared out all the various child related rubbish, removed all the winter coats and outgrown spare clothes and then replaced them with clean and season appropriate spare clothes, found the waterproof trousers and coats for the children, put their wellies in there and found fleeces for all of us to go in there too. One less job to do pre Kessingland too 🙂 That led onto sorting out the coat rack in the hall, bagging up all of the winter coats that won’t fit the children next year ready for ebaying, putting all of our winter coats in the back of our wardrobe and going through the shoes and putting all the wintery ones in the bottom shoe chest and all the summery ones in the top – there guaranteed rain for another fortnight 🙄
The children had grazed on food all afternoon with the sandwiches and crisps I’d taken for their lunch, some cheese strings things (refuse to spell any of those words with Zs like on the packaging!) Lucy’d brought to share. They they had apples, bananas and carrots when we got home, rice cakes in the car and two mini milk ice lollies each so they were understandably not fussed about dinner. So we played memory match the pairs with three sets of Ice Age 2 cards they’d got at the cinema as a free gift with their popcorn. We read Cat in the hat comes back and then the children sat with some of Tarly’s Dora books with Davies ‘reading’ them to her. I also wrote out ‘banana’ ‘green’ and ‘cat’ and Davies read them. He’s so utterly convinved he simply can’t read that when he realises how easy it actually is to read a word like banana he is amazed 🙂 Very funny to watch and of course quite amazing too…
They found a diary which was a McDonalds HappyMeal giveaway at some past point today so they have both been drawing and writing stuff in that today too. They brought it, along with some pens with us in the car and were illustrating stories to tell each other in it during the journey. I think spending time with some of the older girls in our circle who all seem to have notebooks they draw and write in has been noted by them more than I realised. They’ve already filled that one up so I might get them a cheapo notebook each – seems like a good little habit to encourage.
And that was about it for today really. Tomorrow we’re off to Ali’s so naturally Davies is planning ash-art :lol:.
I must about a hundred little note books all filled in with stuff that Pea has been doing since she was about one! She still does it!
Our membership ran out in April and I need £140+ to replace it!
Comment by Roslyn — 26 May 2006 @ 8:26 am
I was thinking of you yesterday, hoping the weather was as good for you as it was for us! Turned out a lovely day for a day out 🙂
Comment by Alison — 26 May 2006 @ 2:59 pm