No proper childcare arrangements this morning so Ady took the children with him on store visits til 1130 and then dropped them at the library for the last hour and a half. Fortunately I have plenty of stored employee goodwill and they were well behaved and it was really busy with children in there generally so they just blended in.
It was a mad busy morning too – we had new computer systems fitted on Monday so today was my first experience of them. I was fine, actually a lot easier than before with loads of good new features and twiddly bits so it’s more a case of getting used to what they can do. I spent the first 90 minutes on the counter, then had tea break and then another hour on the enquiry desk. By then Davies and Scarlett had arrived and were hanging out in the junior library and also did their next Questseekers visit each. Scarlett has finished and got certificate and medal and so on. She also got a free dvd voucher but handed that back as ‘my Mummy gets free dvds anyway, thankyou 🙂 ‘. Davies still has one visit to go. The collected big piles of new books and in Scarlett’s case a big of big book as she chose the classroom size edition of Six Dinner Sid, which as I said to her at the time we probably all know well enough now to not even need the book let alone the HUGE one ‘altogether now, Sid lives at number one Aristotle Street. He also lived at number two, three, four, five and six’. The big book is enough of a nusiance at the library, here at home it’s dwarfing the sofa!
We called home so I could get changed and make the kids a speedy sandwich each and then went back out again to the park to meet Lucy and The Rs. Had a nice couple of hours chatting to Lucy while the kids played :).
Back at home Davies and Scarlett played in the garden. I got the washing in before the threatened rain started and collected eggs – another 2 today, steadily climbing again, hurrah! :). The kids came in and looked at books together while listening to Michael Jackson cds that I’d brought home from work. They had tea and Scarlett painted glue on my arm and then peeled it off when it had dried (oh the larks we get up to here!), then I read a fair chunk of which we’ve been enjoying.
Ady came home, the kids went to bed, I’ve spent ages pondering mobile phones, netbooks, internet and digital tv suppliers and more. And now, as Joyce has failed to deliver and Ady is watching something truly dire on telly that I really can’t bear to be in the room with any longer, I’m off to bed!
I delivered about 8pm last night!
Comment by Joyce — 27 August 2009 @ 7:08 am