Ah too late, I watched Notting Hill and snivelled all through the last ten minutes. I am such a sucker for happily ever after :).
I had a really long to do list today, most of which was revolving around reading 150 pages of a frankly quite boring book for Reading Group tonight. I managed it though, and got a load of washing washed and dried, and made various components of a home made Christmas present, and 60 mince pies (36 with my own mincemeat and 24 with some emergency last minute shop bought stuff that was suitable for vegetarians) and drank lots and lots of tea. 🙂
Davies and Scarlett spent ages playing on Barbie Xbox, then Tarly moved onto Barbie.com, they helped with the fimo part of some gift making. Davies and I fell out which ended with me sending him to his room and telling him he would be starting school after Christmas. I openly admit to ‘threatening’ school at times. I totally believe in Home Education, I am utterly committed to autonomy but there are times when enough is enough and I feel the need to remind Davies, particularly, that this is a chosen lifestyle which needs to suit all of us. As usual it didn’t last long – he crept back down to tell me we had 24 bannisters – and he was right. 🙂 Then I suggested he do some drawing while I finished reading my book and he drew a stick figure inside a red triangle and a stick figure breaking out of a triangle – the school sign and the EO sign and brought it over to show me and said ‘this is me if I don’t behave’ pointing to the school one ‘and this is me if I do’ pointing to the EO one. 😆 Guess that sank in then! He did it all with good grace too, which was good as it appeared to be something which had sunk in rather than a threat. Then he wrote ‘og’ which he told me said ‘go’ so we talked about words being written left to right instead of right to left and he re-wrote it.
Ady arrived home and took over dinner for the kids while I finally finished the book, Tarly and I did some more present making together and then it was time for me to head off to Book Group.
The book was a fairly boring one which none of us had liked much so we rubbished that for a while, which degenerated into a discussion on whether actually the whole thing was a spoof, taken one step further with speculation on whether we were all actors playing the roles of people who went to Book Group :lol:. In the middle of all this lunacy my new boss who leads Book Group announced to everyone that I now work at the library :lol:.
A flurry of goodbyes and Merry Christmasses in the middle of which I got an invite to an open house at someone’s house which I’d like to go along to but will either have to do alone (not very appealing) or get Mum and Dad to have Davies and Scarlett – will have to see.
Home again for goodnights to the children who were both still awake, bath, dinner, more present making and now I’m about to be off to bed ready for work in the morning. 🙂 Oh how I am loving typing that!
lol, you know I threaten home ed for the girls again if they don’t get ready for school on time/do their homework etc. etc. … it seems to work both ways, that threat 😉
Comment by Sarah — 20 December 2006 @ 2:45 pm