The Productive, the poorly and the pandering

I was up until nearly 2am with Tarly and eventually went to bed leaving her still awake last night. She was cheery enough despite her dreadful cough and quite happy for me to go off to bed and leave her once I’d completed her checklist of glass of water, blanket, finding a lost dummy and kissing her goodnight. To be honest I fully expected to be seeing her again before morning but the next thing I knew Ady was bringing me a cup of tea and nagging me to get up and it was 830am.

In a bid to be productive I didn’t sit down or turn on my laptop but got straight on with pegging out some washing and sticking another load on and then headed straight to the playroom. It’s been in a limbo state since last weekend with one unit dismantled and removed but all it’s contents stacked up in a corner and the other unit still there. So I cleared the interior while Ady cleared the top and then I dismantled that one and he took it away. Then to steal a metaphor from Allie it was rather like a sliding puzzle game as I worked round the room clearing one area to put something in it’s place before clearing the next area. I had four shelving units to make up and put against various walls but needed to move the piles of stuff from the place they were going to go, hoover the floor where they were going to stand, load them up with stuff to clear floor space in order to start the next unit and so on. It took pretty much all day. We now have four units round the walls containing all the puzzles, games, toys etc, a table (! 😯 I know!!!!) and two chairs ready for my old laptop to be set up and with a plan to look out for a pc on freecycle to take it’s place soon as it is on it’s last legs and needs an external disc drive and has a very wobbly wireless connection due to it meeting it’s demise from falling off the sofa and having all it’s usb ports smashed up, the printer and the laminator. All the craft stuff is in drawer units under the table and the rail of dressing up clothes is under the window. It looks like a cross between a classroom, a school-at-home area and a workspace for junior creative types! :). Really pleased with it though and when it’s totally finished (still need to clear said table of ‘stuff’, set up the laptop and go through the drawers to clear out dried up felt pens, drawn on paper and do a grand pencil sharpening exercise) I think it’ll be great. Next plan is to either paint the walls or get the children to do some colourful and creative artwork to go on them before moving on to sorting Davies’ bedroom out followed by Scarlett’s. Our ensuite shower is currently filled with piles of stuff ready to list on ebay when we get back from NicCamp and we got rid of several bin liners full of ‘stuff’. 🙂

While we did all this Scarlett mostly dozed on the sofa and then played on Barbie.com for ages while Davies made a complicated brio track round the lounge and popped in to ‘help’ in the playroom every now and then. I got all the washing done too and did the hoovering and washing up before finally sitting down with a glass of wine and my laptop in the late afternoon.

Ady and Davies popped to the supermarket for various bits while Scarlett and I cuddled on the sofa. She is still far from right and has quite a high temperature but is better than she was yesterday, so I’m hopeful she will be much improved tomorrow and fine for Monday – children always seem to bounce back way quicker than adults. It seems to be a nasty cold which effected Davies and Scarlett in different ways – she tends towards a temperature and a croup-like cough with bad colds whereas Davies suffers with blocked nose and earaches – and I probably need to take some blame for bad mothering dragging them out and about in the cold for three evenings this week :oops:.

Tomorrow is baking day – I may well not bother doing any more to the playroom and just bake all morning instead, I want to do several different things including some parkin to take over to Chris and Julie’s tomorrow afternoon for fireworks and a few things to bring to NicCamps.