so won’t waste any further brain time trying to 😉
A not a lot sort of day today really, this morning was taken up with chatting to Karen on the phone for nearly an hour 😉 while the kids played with Polly pocket, brio and ate about half a packet of shredded wheat. Davies can climb, via a stool onto the worktops in the kitchen and so access pretty much anything in the cupboards. This is a good thing as he can help himself to stuff which means I don’t have to get up 😉
I then spent ages and ages doing a logo for our home eg group – nothing fantastic but it just took forever because I was trying to do it in photoshop using the brush tool using my mouse pad on the laptop – Oh I do like to make life more difficult than it has to be 🙂 I then did some group organising stuff – wrote a newsletter to hand out tomorrow detailing all the themes for July, all the various other activities I’ve planned throughout August and got details for various trips and started to ask about group discounts (stuff like Drusillas and the local summer holiday musical show at the local theatre as a group matinee booking). I think we’ve got a lot on offer actually to keep continuity so that friendships can be maintained through the summer. Chris and Julie are hosting a barbecue at their house, we’ve got a beach picnic, a sports day event, the theatre trip and a wildfowl and wetland trip with pond dipping. Hopefully it will be well recieved and we’ll get good attendance. 🙂 Also sent the details to the Sussex newsletter early as I’ll be away next week and am trying to be organised 😉
Mum arrived in the midst of me doing this and went up to Davies’ bedroom where both kids were playing and joined in! Then I called them all down for lunch and made some playdough for them.
Ady arrived home early so Mum and I collected Dad and went over to see Granny in hospital. She looked really well and the op was a success. She should be home Thursday and we’ll go and see her when we get back from Kessingland. It was quite a nice couple of hours actually, I don’t remember the last time I was with Mum and Dad without the kids and it was very relaxing to be the daughter instead of the mother for a couple of hours 🙂 Dropped them home and arranged to see Mum on Friday for a last minute Kessingland bits trip into town and for lunch before TT2 (which as we won’t be doing TT1 anymore could now be refered to as simply TT).
Bath, dinner, catch up on emails and here I sit.
Tomorrow it is HE group and the theme is weather. I have a few half formed ideas which I need to work on in the morning and at the moment I still have Thursday free although we usually see Julie so if she is not busy I am inclined to think we might still end up lazing in her garden!
Ooh, I know what I meant to blog! Davies has a new ‘thing’ – Jesus! Not at all sure where it really came from or whether I am dealing with it in the best way actually. Although I have no belief in God or other religious ideas I am very interested in religion as a concept and I do want the children to be aware of others beliefs, practise respect and tolerance of them and indeed leave the door open for God to come in if they so wish 😉 So I have always referred to God, Allah etc as ‘what some people believe’. We have discussed Christianity probably a bit more than other religions mainly because there are so many more points of reference which crop up in day to day life. At Christmas and Easter we have chatted about the relevance in various customs and so on. Just recently he was asking about the cross so I explained about how Jesus died on one so now he is a cross spotter. The other day we were driving somewhere and seemingly out of nowhere he came out with ‘Mummy we live quite close to Jesus don’t we?’ those who know me and my beliefs well will understand why I nearly crashed the car 😉 turns out he was talking about the church around the corner from our house! I have got various books on world religions including one I got from the book people fairly recently called ‘what I believe’ which I must dig out and look at with him. Much as he shocks me with his worldly questions I do enjoy trying to work out what the ‘right’ answer is for him. Odd tantrums and challenging behaviour aside how tragic would it be for this little boy to try and take such questions and world observations to school in three months time?
We can sit him and Big down in a corner at Kessingland and they can figure it all out between them!
You’re sounding very energetic at the moment – where are you getting it all from???
Comment by jax — 21 June 2005 @ 10:54 pm
Wow! The summer list sounds great, you’re a star, looking forward to seeing the details and, who knows, actually attending some kind of HE group event. It could happen! Well done for getting it so sorted before you go away too.
LOL at you living near Jesus, that is so funny. But I completely agree that this is just the age when school tends to effectively trample on this kind of natural curiosity.
Comment by Ali — 21 June 2005 @ 11:05 pm
not at all sure, clearly running on some sort of adrenalin prior to a crash and burn. Someone described me today as self motivated which is a huge joke but perhaps I am finally about to have some sort of epiphany and get my arse in gear after all!
sitting him down with Big for a theological debate sounds good – maybe we should add some other 5yos to the mix with more contrasting ideas though – that would be a good fly on the wall conversation to witness eh? 😉
Be excellent to see you (and you Ros!) at some of the stuff through the summer Ali – infact will email you the newsletter to whet your appetite!
Comment by Nic — 21 June 2005 @ 11:33 pm
If he asks questions near any of mine he’ll get the complete we love Jesus indoctrination so handle with care 🙂
Comment by Jenny — 22 June 2005 @ 9:12 am