NKG -The parent who likes to saaaaaaaay…. YES!

Anyone remember that TSB advert from back when the TSB was just the TSB and wasn’t part of one huge great big bank with 47 initials?

The children woke me this morning at about 730am by playing the Crazy Frog dvd fairly loudly and obviously leaping around dancing to it downstairs. Having been intolerant and grumpy pretty much all day yesterday I decided that I could either start the day before I’d even got up by yelling and feeling pissed off or I could put decide that there was a reason why they felt the need to do this and it wasn’t to annoy me and enjoy the sound of my beloved offspring enjoying themselves, laughing and playing together happily. I went for the latter – I’m not actually that good at prolonged pissed-offed-ness 😆

By the time I’d come downstairs they had already turned the tv off and were drawing and colouring anyway having got their own breakfast. I peeled and chopped vegetables to get a beef stew in the slow cooker and by the time I finally sat down with a cup of tea they had already headed off upstairs to play. Yesterday had also been one of those days where I’d read lots about more structured HE types and been wobbling about not doing stuff with them (although actually when I read back at what we had done together yesterday it was loads) so I decided to log what they got up to of their own accord instead and cobbled it together for a blog post over on MT at the end of the day.

They spent from 10am to 1230pm playing together really well. They made an ‘Air Museum’ up in Davies’ bedroom which I got taken to visit, spent some time storytelling which they brought downstairs and performed for me too and then got busy with a game which involved toys coming down the stairs at various speeds. I knew we had no bread for sandwiches so made some cheese scones. I found some wholewheat flour so thought I’d have a go making them with that. They were okay but a bit on the dense side, I suspect other ingredient quantities should have been changed if using that flour. I also made some chocolate chip cookies too.

They appeared claiming hunger just as the scones were ready so we had lunch and then they were about to head off again when I decided that as the drizzle and grey clouds had finally parted and it was sunny we’d go to the allotment and make a start on the raised beds. I’ve blogged about that – with pictures – over at selfsuffish – go and be proud of me there please :).

We had a couple of hours there and then with a quick dash into the house on the way for me to change my filthy muddy top we went to the swimming pool. I’d been debating whether to go in the water myself this week or not due to feeling blah but the thought of the water after all my hammering and digging was quite attractive and the children were really keen for me to so I said ‘yes’ again :).

Scarlett had her lesson while Davies and I had half an hour of length swimming -he did 4 and I did 12 and he spent some time playing with a float Ady had bought for them yesterday. Then Davies went off for his lesson and Tarly came and joined me in the pool. She did some jumping in, some swimming back and forth from me to the side to me to the side and I pulled her around a bit too.

We got home and they had a bath to wash their hair and get the allotment dirt and swimming pool chemicals off them before their dinner – beef stew and they cleared their plates :). They watched Dora and were discussing whether the voice for Boots has changed and then got so caught up in Little Bear that they elected to finish watching that rather than have a story.

Ady came home and I had a lovely hot bubble bath to wash off my allotment dirt and swimming pool chemicals and Davies and I exchanged some notes. He sent one downstairs to tell me he loved me so I took him up quite a long note back which I really didn’t expect him to be able to read but he read the whole thing and then sent one back down later saying ‘to Mummy, thank you for my note, love Davies xxxx’ at which point I stopped for fear of channeling David and Jeannette / Annette with all the thankyou-ing 😆

Ady made dumplings to go with the stew which was delicious and now because I have aches from all my exertion today I’m off to bed to dream sweet and happy dreams of floating on raised beds!