After trying to be all sensible and go to bed early last night to be ready for work this morning all of my best laid plans were foiled. Scarlett was still listening to an audiobook and Davies was still listening to his radio. I got into bed beside Ady, who was watching the TV and commented that I didn’t expect to be going to sleep before our children when they were still only 7 and 9! And then Scarlett came upstairs to say actually she didn’t like being all alone downstairs so could she sleep with me?
We did try and transfer her back to her own bed when she fell asleep within minutes but she woke up and protested so she stayed with us. Well me actually, as Ady gave up after about half an hour and went off to sleep in her bed with all the stuffed toys.
I made sure everyone was up with me this morning though as I think the late nights and late mornings are getting a little out of hand even by our standards. For the children only of course I have to state as I sit here at gone 230am still typing away…. 😳
Work was uneventful – I took down my Cosy Classics display and my 12 days of Christmas display. I’ve brought home the pictures for the 12 days of Christmas as the kids and I made them together and we’re planning to stick them up in the hall alongside the stairs next year – we have 12 stairs. I also made a start on the next display in Junior which is Arts and Crafts. I’ve got loads of books in for it and decided to make letters spelling out Arts and Crafts in all different arty and crafty ways. So far A is some felt-tips and crayons bluetacked to a cut out letter A and the first T is knitted using string as yarn and two pencils as knitting needles.
Back home again Davies had declared it a pyjama day, while Ady and Scarlett had been chopping wood. We had lunch, I rang my Mum who had rung Ady earlier to ask what I wanted for my birthday but then pooh-poohed all his suggestions (which had come directly from me). Worried that I was to expect yet more money spent on things I don’t want and will clutter up the house along with making me feel bad about being ungrateful for being given things I don’t like I rang her and said I’d really rather have money to spend in the Lush shop than anything else and stopped her from being reduced to clear gift items in the M&S sale (which was where she was at the time). Phew.
I had planned to take down Christmas tomorrow but after a spot of reorganising in the kitchen to try and fit a breadbin on the worktop (which we might well not even own anymore so may have to buy a replacement) I had a taste for it and decided to take everything down today after all.
Scarlett helped, while Ady and Davies did something on the computer to do with DS games, then the kids wandered off to play while Ady and I finished off and hoovered all the pine needles up. The tree is now being enjoyed by the chickens, who actually still have last years which didn’t go brown until about August. We’ve rejigged the lounge a little and now have a sofa at each end and the table in the middle under the other window. I like it and think it feels bigger (the lounge, not the table) and I get to sit in the window on my sofa too which is good :). We’ll see how we all feel about it after a week or so though and decide whether to keep it like this or move it back again. The playroom needs tackling at some stage soon too, maybe tomorrow.
Lounge all sorted and all traces of Christmas removed I nipped to the supermarket for some soup for Scarlett and some veg for dinner tomorrow. I managed to be over an hour as I bumped into a friend and my mum in there so spend ages chatting. I also filled up my car which I’d been playing petrol chicken with since well before Christmas so we’re all ready to face next week with Ady back at work and the kids and I getting back into the rhythm of our usual weekdays again.
Ady and the kids watched Total Wipeout, I went and had a bath and then Ady cooked dinner. I’m not sure where the last 3 hours have gone but I do seem to have managed a very long post below about 2010 so I guess I better go and get some sleep so I’m ready for such busyness ahead.
dont understand the breadbin thing. How can you possibly not own it?
I was wondering that as well…tho it made even less sense to think you migh not own the worktop, which was my initial reading of it…
😆 the perils of writing blog posts at 3am!
We definitely have the worktop although I’m hesitant to claim ownership of anything in our house as a percentage share of it all must surely be owned by our creditors! 😉
We had a breadbin, it may still be in the house (in the cupboard under the stairs) or we may have gotten rid of it. We need to check the cupboard to see if we still have it.