Ready?

Pretty much :).

I didn’t replicated my slothness slacker-mom performance of yesterday and was up and about well before 8am with children dressed and breakfasted when Julie arrived with, oh, seconds to spare before I left for work. The senior library assistant who runs the library day to day has been on leave this week so it’s been maned by a variety of other senior staff who don’t know the lie of the land so well. Which has meant that I’ve been given loads of extra stuff to just do without really thinking about whether I could do it or not. I’ve been fine actually and really enjoyed it but it was slightly daunting being left between 1 and 2pm on a busy Friday lunchtime with me in charge of the enquiry desk and the Saturday lad on the counter. 😯 All was well though and aside from getting engaged for longer than I’d have liked with a man telling me about his Russian girlfriend / penpal who emails him each day and the email he had the other day asking him to help someone ‘unlock’ their trapped money. You know, the email we get about 4 times every time we check for new mail and goes straight into our spam folder. I’m staggered that there are people who not only read the whole thing but actually sit and consider it for a while as a serious option. Scary.

I had my teabreak with one of the new members of the management team – a librarian. I guess she’s a few years younger than me, she’s done two degrees so isn’t still in her teens and had a good chat with her about why she wanted to be a librarian when she grew up and some of the benefits of Home Education. She was asking about Davies’ guest list for the party and whether he’d only invited boys and I explained not only had he invited girls too he’s guest list included children from 2 up to 10 and adults of all ages, all of whom he is equally excited about attending and she was very enthusiastic about that as a plus of HE – that and allowing children to be themselves. I wouldn’t normally comment as such but it was another example of someone who has no ulterior motive in judging Home Education (like a child of their own for example) being way more open minded to the idea than someone who is put on the defensive by it quetsionning their choices. Not especially relevant to my blog but certainly to me at the moment.

I arrived home at almost the same moment as Ady did, pulling up behind his car as he turned the engine off so the children did a welcoming chorus for ‘Mummy and Daddy’ which was nice :). I got changed and went straight out to the supermarket for last minute bits for tomorrow while Ady fed the children and then they all stayed in the garden while I did some more baking – sausage rolls, rice crispie cakes and decorated the cybermen biscuits. The kids had a bath then went off to bed while Ady and I stuck blue tac on posters, watched Torchwood while agreeing that if Ady were gay John Barrowman would be on his list and that if John Barrowman were straight he’d be on mine 🙂 and ate pizza.

8 years ago today we arrived in Las Vegas for our wedding. We both confessed tonight that we’ve not got cards or anything for each other for our anniversary on Sunday but decided that it being overshadowed by the birthday party of our child is proof enough that things are going just fine :). Back after the weekend!