I had a lay in this morning which was lovely 🙂
Davies was still feeling a bit rough and hadn’t gone to YACs. He doesn’t really seem to have many symptoms and I suspect aside from a bit of a cold he doesn’t have much wrong with him but didn’t really want us to go out tonight. We were together in that as I wasn’t keen to go anyway so I rang Dad to say I wasn’t going so we wouldn’t need them to come and look after Davies and Scarlett this evening.
Ady spent some time outside chopping up a wardrobe to put in the car and clearing some rubbish from the garden, charging the battery on the campervan and finally going to the tip. I did some blogging and the kids watched some dvds and played Zoombinis. They went with Ady to the tip and then we all had lunch.
We played some Lego Creationary which is always fun and then we sorted out the hall. Coats, shoes and another look at the bookcase which by virtue of having three clear shelves seems have been a magnet for clutter – grr. More stuff ready to go into storage and a very pared down selection of coats and shoes in the hall now. Tomorrow is the playroom, the last room in the house but as it’s been used as a holding bay it is rather full.
As I didn’t have to worry about reeking of chlorine tonight I decided to go and get my swim planned for this weekend out of the way. I really want to finish the channel on Tuesday – the official end date isn’t til 5th December but with us being away I wanted to have it done and dusted next week. I did just over 2 hours and did 110 lengths, the most ever which just leaves me with 99 to go on Tuesday. Hurrah! 🙂
I called into the supermarket on the way home for requested food items for the kids and something for my own dinner, assuming Ady would be out as he was still planning to go out tonight. I got home to find Davies had persuaded him to stay home too – I don’t think he took much persuading actually ;).
I celebrated the saving of money from a meal out tonight and getting swimming out of the way by booking tickets to go and see A Christmas Carol live theatre show on Friday night. We’re doing a lot of theatre and cinema trips at the moment on the basis we won’t be doing any next year and I’d rather spend spare cash on things like that given birthdays and Christmas gifts will be more sparse this year. Haven’t told Davies and Scarlett yet, might keep it as a surprise, they have a lot of cool stuff happening this week and it will be a lovely getting in the mood for Christmas starter to the weekend before we head off to camp :).
They were all watching Home Alone 2 when I got in which had Ady and I reminiscing about New York. I went and had a long bath and treated my hair to a deep condition as it is really suffering from all the swimming – twice weekly two hour dunking sessions in pool chemicals are not very hair friendly. Maybe I should have worn that swimming cap…
Davies and Scarlett went to bed, I watched X factor, we had dinner and watched Armstrong & Miller and felt pleased we weren’t out 🙂