I have been supremely slack today in both my parenting and educational provision. Fortunately I’ve done lots of spade work in the last few years so can afford to take the odd day off here and there ;).
I was up for various things to do with them but they were far too busy playing :lol:. I did do various muffiny things instead though including loads of washing, making three quiches as some cream was on it’s last date to be used and I had all the other ingredients so I made pastry and custard and cooked bacon and they have all been frozen ready to pull out later in the month for dinners. Then I made pancakes for lunch with bantams eggs which are coming at an average of one day between the pair of them :).
We watched The Bear, well actually we didn’t watch The Bear really. We put it on, all sat and watched the first bit and then I wandered off and then they got distracted by playing but they did come back to it and seemed to take most of it in. I read my book and did some needlefelting.
I had planned to watch films, read to them, maybe do some craft or art or something but I would have actually been disturbing them from their serious business of playing which seems rather criminal to me so I left them to get on with it. Which isn’t to say I didn’t talk to them lots because there were plenty of ‘what does this mean?’ questions and various observations of things and other chatting, just no organised stuff.
Instead they played with the toy animals, did some drawing, watched Little Shop of Horror twice, did ‘exercising’, acted out LSOH with a geomag Audrey2 they built and then took photos of it, morphed their game into the Simpsons, watched me needle felting and had a go, looked at books from Knowsley and Longleat Safari books that they found on the bookcase from long, long ago and spent ages tidying up Davies’ bedroom.
It was swimming lessons tonight which went well for them both, then home for tea which they ate watching Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. Scarlett took ages to go to sleep and Davies was still chattering in his bed at nearly 11pm again :roll:.
Tonight I was supposed to be going to bed early but got sucked into online chatting which has been really nice and had me giggling away at the screen but kept me up Very Late Indeed :oops:.