I slept in this morning having fallen asleep really quickly when I went to bed last night. Scarlett woke around 5am and came hurtling up the stairs callling ‘Mumma! MUMMA! MUMMA!’ as she ran having had a bad dream so she got in with me and promptly went straight to sleep cuddled up in my arms but she had woken both the cat and the chickens, both cockerels started crowing and the cat started scratching at the bannisters. I have some stuff to write about Scarlett at the moment but will save it for a post all of it’s own. Anyway, having gotten back to sleep I had some very strange dreams involving an ex-boyfriend, chickens, infidelity and other such random components. Scarlett came up and woke me by stroking my hand and whispering that she loved me :).
I felt much refreshed by an early night and a lie in and having sorted out breakfast, chickens and laundry I sat down to see if goddardstuff was working again – it is 🙂 so blogged. Davies was Xboxing and Scarlett initially was playing with him, then he swapped to a different game and she got out her bath bomb stuff and worked on some more bath bombs and potions. She’s loving blending smells and creating colours, have been trying to find if there is anywhere that offers educational trips or workshops for perfume making / cosmetics making but with no luck so far. I taught her how to open the childproof lids that come on her various essential oils which will no doubt prove a useful life skill ;).
I made lunch which was various leftovers from the chiller including beef stew and potato gratin which I bolstered with bread and butter and we then had popcorn and dvd which we’d been talking about longingly over the weekend. We chose Finding Nemo as we’d not watched it for a while and I suspect, having sat and watched it properly this time I’ve never actually sat and watched it all the way through before.
We enjoyed that 🙂
The kids played with the dvd extras while I sorted out swimming stuff and Scarlett gave Davies a quick demonstration on How To Make A Bathbomb too. Then off to swimming.
Scarlett’s lesson was first, Davies went off to play with a couple of lads he regularly hooks up with at the pool and I did lengths. Davies had a wobble about not wanting to do his lesson and I rather lost patience with him over it – he was claiming tiredness and I don’t doubt, having done half an hour in the pool too myself by that point, that the prospect of a half hour lesson was tiring but I didn’t have much sympathy and told him he had to go and do it and if he was struggling in future he either needed to not have the time before the lesson in the pool or GO TO BLOODY SLEEP AT NIGHT!!!! Scarlett got in the pool and played on the slide, again having found another little girl to play with and I carried on with my lengths. I only had about 35 minutes today but managed 30 lengths or 1km which I was quite pleased with. Next week we have no Brownies so we can stay in the pool longer and I will aim to do my 50 lengths and see how long it takes me. Would be good to try for 60 actually – 2km!
Scarlett and I got out to get changed and then stood and watched the last five minutes of Davies’ lesson. His group had swapped with the group in the big pool so he had all his lesson along the full length of the big pool. Not sure which of the groups this was to benefit, obviously his group got to jump in the deep end, practise treading water and being out of their depth, swam the 33.3m lengths and so on, while the other group got to swim competively against each other as they had a wider pool (if shorter) to have more side by side than the 2 swimmers in the space in the bigger pool. Davies was really pleased with himself when he got out and really glad he’d done the lesson :).
Dashed home and dropped Davies off with Ady for dinner and a bath and Tarly and I went straight round to Brownies. I explained to the leader that Scarlett had enjoyed last week but been wobbly about staying alone after hurting herself at the end so I was staying again but I’d brought a book and didn’t really engage with Scarlett for the session at all. They played parachute games and other similar games with equipment from the Sainsburys Active Kids vouchers – all looked very good. They also had pancakes early for next week as it’s half term. Scarlett brought hers over to share with me :). She seemed to be doing fine, I heard her chatting away quite animatedly to various of the girls and adults but she can be a bit oblivious to already formed friendships that are not really welcome to additional members which may probe problematic for her there. More on that when I do my Scarlett specific post.
We came home and she tried to be quite down on it to Ady which had me getting cross having sat for 90 minutes in a drafty hall with damp hair listening to 20 girls aged 7-10 shrieking and at the end of Davies moaning about not wanting to have his lesson and dipping out of Sea Scouts last week so I went into lecture mode about being happy to pay for these activities, take them to them, hang around waiting and collect them from them, sew on badges and even give of my own time to the organisations but only for as long as they enjoyed them but the instant they started moaning or needing to be dragged along reluctantly to them I would only too happily stop taking them. Davies took this on board and I suspect won’t be complaining again. Scarlett got upset so needed comforting and I probably went too far at the end of a long day 🙁
Read them some which I bitterly resented as it was full of Harry Potter references and so not my type of thing at all but it is their Book Club book so needs reading in the next 2 weeks before they go to that.
Had a bath and then Ady and I watched Survivors and had a curry – very nice 🙂