During which I didn’t leave the house at all!
Infact aside from cooking roast lamb I’ve not really done a lot other than knit today. It’s been warm infront of the fire and relaxing to do nothing after a fairly stressy week.
With lots of prodding Ady joined in with Davies and Scarlett’s lego playing. We watched a bit of ‘One Small Step’ but it was very dry and documentary-ish and didn’t hold my attention, much less the childrens’.
I was bobbing in and out doing the lunch while the others had a couple of games of Kerplunk and then we all sat down around 2ish to roast lamb. Dinnertable discussions this week included plans for the coming week, which parent Davies would like to accompany him to the Young Archaeologists Club which has the first meeting of the year next Saturday and various other upcoming events and socialising we have planned.
After lunch Ady and the kids went outside to do some planting of some flowers and in Davies and Scarlett’s case run off some energy. They came in at 5ish when it was starting to get dark. They were wet and muddy and cold so Ady took them for a shower and then they came and watched (under protest, I insisted ;)) Events from nature or whatever it was called about Arctic ice melting. Admittedly it was all stuff they already know quite a bit about from various nature documentaries.
I read some Humphrey and they both did some drawing while listening to it. In the middle of all that Ady suddenly appeared in the lounge to say he’d got the boiler lit!!!! Both of us have been trying to relight it a couple of times each day and this time it lit and stayed lit. :shock
No idea why it’s suddenly done so but we’ve had the heating blasting away ever since and even debated having a bath despite already all having had showers only half an hour beforehand. I’m not at all sure what to make it if all and will be witholding confidence in it for a while now but hurrah! woohoo! and whooppeeeee!
The children went to bed, Davies taking a pad and pen with him and reappearing an hour later with a 10 page story for a new Star Wars film including various speech bubbles and other writing.
We watched Lost, basked in the warmth of the lounge (I even took my jumper off!), I knitted some more, we both played some DS (Ady’s been on another downloading frenzy today so we have loads of new games) and now I’m off to bed to dream of waking to a heated house and having a blissful bath tomorrow night – and keeping my fingers crossed for both :).
Has it warmed up in general down there? Maybe your boiler just doesn’t like the cold!
Comment by Merry — 16 February 2009 @ 10:22 am
Hope your boiler decides to keep being a boiler for you!
Comment by Allie — 16 February 2009 @ 10:58 am