It’s a funny thing how friendships really do need something in common to remain healthy. I have got a school friend who I see very occassionally and our lives are so far apart now all we seem to do is reminice about school which can only fill a finite period of time before we go our seperate ways and back to exchanging Christmas cards with annual updates on where our lives are at the time.
Rachel has been here this morning and there have been a few instances of not really having much to talk about with each other. We met at baby clinic when Davies was about a week old and saw each other weekly ’til we moved away, stayed in fairly regular contact while we were away and seemed to pick back up where we left off when we came home last year – she was pregnant and I had already had number 2 baby so we had plenty to talk about there. She had also considered HE so that was a popular topic until she made the final decision not to and E started school.
Today is the first time we’ve met up since pre Melrose – we’ve not seen E for weeks and weeks and last week he started school full time. So now she is a woman with one child in school and a 4 month old baby. I am a woman with no kids in school and a noisy, messy, attitudey toddler. For some reason we struggled to find topics which were safe – I felt like my enquiring about E and how he was finding school sounded judgemental (which it so isn’t!) and she obviously felt she couldn’t slate school or mention her worries in too much depth incase I try and ‘convert’ her to HE, and it just feels like forever ago since I had a baby and was thinking about stuff like weaning, were they about to roll over and so on – an alien and long since left behind world. Just an odd morning really – hopefully next time we meet it will click back to normal.
Davies sat and watched class TV again this morning – he does really well with the Look and Read stuff and it is reinforcing the sounds stuff we have done with 100EL. He also watched something on one of the maths programmes about green bottles hanging on the wall type subtraction and recreated it with ‘five white glue spreaders having on the oil filled radiator’ – highly educational 🙂
They have played with sticklebricks, wooden blocks, duplo and other building – y stuff this morning. Davies built a Drusillas (zoo), a pirate ship, a Captain Hook, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, a village and some other elaborate structures – all very recogniseable actually but they have been destroyed before I had a chance to take photos. He is now watching a dinosaur film on dvd – his choice – while sitting on the floor with Scarlett having a conversation about the colour of their skin. Not the greatest of films ever made but it does have some cool music and some good triumphs over evil type moral ending!
Scarlett has looked at pictures of herself as a baby, eaten the last of the Christmas chocolates (dark chocolate covered gingers!) and alternately annoyed and played with Davies in his games. And cooed and oohed and ahhed over baby A 🙂
Got a letter this morning from the church hall to say they would only charge me £28 instead of £45 for the forgotten cancellation 🙂 So glad I refrained from my anti religion rant 😉 Also arrived in the post this morning our Harry Hill tickets, which although is not until October reminds me that I do have times planned ahead with no kids 🙂 Now just need to get my Richard Herring tickets booked (the venue is not selling tickets yet although it is advertised) and I will feel as though we have a social life again!
Scarlett woke last night but Ady dealt with it and she did not leave her room. She had a bit of a tantrum about it but was not awake for too long so I am feeling more positive about life in general 🙂 Also the sun is shining 🙂 Ordered some books from Book People online too which always make me feel sunny!
And that’s about it from here. More later, probably.