A much needed ‘day off’ today. I’ve missed Davies and Scarlett lots having not seemed to have actually spent much time exclusively with them this week. Davies had a bad dream in the night so I woke up with him in bed beside me anyway and Scarlett came and joined us so we had a lovely half an hour all cuddled up together chatting and planning the day.
Scarlett wanted to go to the beach and Davies wanted to go to Fishbourne Roman Villa but we settled on a day mostly at home with a brief foray out for supplies in the middle.
We had breakfast and Scarlett watched an animal programme (on CBBC I think) about various animals including cabybaras which she fed on her Keeper for the Day at Drusillas. I know it was only 18 months ago but I am really pleased she still has such clear memories of that day, it gives me hope she will remember it forever, despite me not recalling much of being six. It also makes me happy to think so many other fab days the children have had will stay with them and all the amazing memories we are building for them of their childhood will remain treasured by them :).
Davies found a stash of old sketch books and pads from a year or two ago so we looked at them for a while and marvelled both at how they have both come on and how good they were already at such a young age :).
I needed to get some photos printed off I’d taken of Chatterbooks sessions for a display I’m doing tomorrow at the library of the sessions so I wanted to go to Tescos (boo hiss) to print those off on their machine. I also needed a new swimsuit as I’d chucked mine in the bin at the pool on Tuesday when I realised just how rotted from the chlorine it was. So we went over to Tesco, got swimsuit for me, photos printed off, some tea for the kids for later and several of the dvds they had for £3 each including Lassie for Scarlett, Monster House for Davies which he has been wanting on dvd ever since we saw it as a filmeducation screening in Reading about 4 years ago.
Both the kids need new season shoes – Scarlett has boots but she also has incredibly stinky feet thanks to a refusal to wear socks and non-leather shoes and Davies has DMs but nothing more lightweight so we also visited Brantano for a very lengthy shoe purchasing session. Davies got some Ben 10 trainers which replace the Ben 10 trainers we bought when we were at Shell Island last year and he got his only shoes wet in the rising tide for a tenner and he wore til they fell apart earlier this month. Scarlett got some crocs style sketchers with plenty of ventilation which she agreed to aslong as we removed all the girlie jibbitz of butterflies and jewels – she has a real anti-pink and sparkly thing going on just now, LelliKellies would be like torturing her 😆
We also called into Boots and I bought a home perm. My hair has grown really long again since hacking it off last winter and I am at the bored with it point again. I’ve been plaiting it when wet for the last week or so and wearing it wiggly with lots of compliments so decided to make it more permanent with a perm. I had lots of perms in the 80s like pretty much everyone else but have never attempted to DIY before, but the worst that could happen was I’d hate it and could then jistufy cutting it short again…
Home for popcorn and dvd watching – Monster House, then Lassie while I put all the rollers and paper in to my hair, added perm lotion, sat with my head in a plastic bag and then added the neutraliser and de-rollered it, all much to great interest from D&S. It stinks of perm lotion depsite a thorough washing out and a washing and conditioning later in the evening and is a bit on the dry side but I know my hair doesn’t take perms terribly well even when properly done so I suspect it will drop out after a few weeks. All that aside though I like it, it’s given it some texture and will stop me from getting bored with it for a few more weeks at least. And it was a good chemistry lesson for Davies and Scarlett 😆
Lassie finished and me newly poodle-esque Scarlett and I iced the cupcakes from Wednesday and made some snickerdoodles as she’d really wanted to do baking today. Davies was geomagging. Inbetween I dealt with laundry (we’ve had April-esque sunshine and showers here today so I’ve brought in nearly dry stuff to air and hung out more stuff), dealt with chickens – one of the hens thinks she might go broody, I am here to tell her she won’t! – and chopped up firewood.
I got the kids tea ready, baked all the batches of snickerdoodles, lit a fire and finally Ady came home. The kids and I finished Firework makers daughter and agreed we would like to see the theatre production locally in the summer then they went to bed. I had a very long bath while Ady sorted dinner and we watched taped Masterchef Australia slightly the worse for wear of wine as I was quite fixated on bay leaves…
Really must go to bed as I’m taking my curlyhead to work tomorrow morning.