For some reason it’s felt like a long week.
We were super efficient this morning, packing a picnic, getting dressed in suitable attired, collecting together our parcels, heading to the post office via the cashpoint and getting all the parcels sent then arriving at Lucy’s pretty much dead on time. 10am 😯
Of course that did involve me being a total cow to Davies about his ineptitude at getting his shoes or coat on and asking him why he had to be so pathetic, which made him cry 🙁 I didn’t apologise because he was being pathetic but I did feel like a bully which wasn’t so nice. 😳 Luckily he has his father’s forgiving nature and within about ten minutes he’d forgotten it and so had I.
We headed off over to Paradise Park where the children were delighted to be and ran off ahead in fits of excitement at all the various things to look at. It has been a while since we’ve been there and every time they seem to spot something new or focus on a different area of it but I would certainly attribute our regular trips there to all sorts of bits and pieces of knowledge my two have picked up about our planet, weather, dinosaurs and evolution. Today Davies asked why the Neanderthal man’s face looked like a monkey, so that was a good observation. He also hung back to ask me about a cracked road which there was a picture of from the San Andreas fault so we talked about that.
There is a Santa there every weekend from now until Christmas in a grotto area and they have at least six Santa’s positioned around the place in various ho-ho-ho poses, so borrowing Lucy’s camera I took a couple of snaps of D&S for this year’s Christmas card :). They all threw pennies in the waterfall, dashed round the outdoor dinosaurs bit as it was rainy and horrid and then we spent ages in the indoor play bit eating lunch and turning down requests for pennies to go in the amusements. Eventually we agreed that it was indeed too horrid a day to spend any time outside so we headed home again. Lucy had invited us to her house to play but we gave the children the casting vote and it was decided to come back here instead.
There were geomags, a world map puzzle, toenail painting, plastic peg and block and stacking cups play on offer and a bit of a to-do about some chocolate spread sandwiches but eventually they all seemed to settle into doing something albeit none of the four children together and Lucy and I managed a bit of chatting. Then Ady arrived home early which meant I could run them home without needing to drag out Colin or drag out my children.
Once home again the children had tea, I got our dinner in the oven (a rather lovely mix of sausages, red wine and a load of root vegetables I’d not managed to fit in the beef stew earlier in the week all roasted in the oven with oil and herbs and garlic. Get me with all my veg this week!) and the children had a mental half hour dancing to Christmas songs in the playroom. I think this is the first year Scarlett has *really* got an inkling what it’s all about, I reckon Christmas Eve will be a very exciting day here this year :). Bedtime stories for Tarly, Davies laid in bed playing with some action figures (which I remember doing with a Miss Piggy and a Kermit the frog before I was old enough to lie in bed reading books) and Ady is cursing and swearing at the dvd player / recorder which seems to have developed some sort of selective approach to which dvds it will play :roll:.
Tomorrow I have my Mum and Granny here but Lucy may well come and dilute the genes a bit and sometimes having the pair of them here together, distracted by the children is sufficient for me to slope off and do something else anyway. And then the weekend, the glorious weekend which by a series of events we have nothing planned for. Hurrah! 🙂
Katy spent some time in France and was invited to someone’s house for Sunday lunch. The others had a normal roast, and Katy had err… just the vegetables. The hostess kindly said “I know you’re vegetarian, so I cooked the vegetables around the meat to give them a nice flavour :roll:”
Get you with your veg indeed!
Comment by Bob — 17 November 2006 @ 12:23 pm
LOL Bob that’s classic French ‘vegetarianism’. That and the ‘green salad’ option.
Love roast veg, think I’ll do that sometime next week. With couscous (obv) and chilli.
Hope day is going OK with all those genes.
Comment by Ali — 17 November 2006 @ 2:20 pm