Despite being really late to sleep last night both the children were awake early this morning. I was utterly incapable of getting up at 7am when Ady went off to work so instead they both came up to the bedroom and sat / wriggled / laid / chatted with me instead. Scarlett played in the bathroom for a while looking at all my various hair slides and bobbles and Davies came and gave me a forehead rub as I told him I had a headache (he has very good hands, gives a lovely massage 🙂 ) and then dismantled one of the dried flowers from Kirsty’s wedding that had found it’s way home with us and been discovered by Scarlett and sprinkled them over me proclaiming them ‘the petals of joy!’ 🙄 so had to sweep those out of the bed otherwise Ady would wonder what on earth I’d been up to in there 😆
I was all sneezy and the children were all grumpy so it seemed only right to head off out in search of the rest of the dwarfs rather than stay home and mope. Also the MM yahoo list had mentioned junk modelling as an activity which I knew would go down well with D&S. I would have brought along junk of our own but recycling day is today so all our carboard, bottles and tins were already in the back of the dustcart. While I drank tea the children got out the plastic animals and the geomags and played with those.
We arrived fairly promptly at MM and once they realised just what junk modelling was about they both got stuck in. For Tarly the appeal was in cutting sellotape and spreading glue more than any specific end result but she sat and stuck (boom boom) with it for well over an hour so that was good. Davies assumed more of a directors role and seemed to be telling Kate the whole plot line of the Curse of the Were-Rabbit too while overseeing my creation. He’d found a roll of fablon (or to give it it’s generic rather than brand named and also far more art and crafty name, the sticky backed plastic!) which had a pattern of blues and greens which put him in mind of stained glass windows so he suggested someone could make a church and use it as the windows. For want of better inspiration I ran with that and made a church complete with spire, weather vane, stained glass windows, raised path, lawns and finally graves and headstones. I was quite proud of it actually 🙂 if a little surprised at my subject matter ;). I was then asked to make a Wallace and a Gromit which I did with toilet rolls and finally I made a robot complete with jointed arms (oh the joys of paper split pins!) and wheels instead of legs, which actually turn :).
The children wandered off to play and I had a conversation about monitoring, registration and the future of Home Ed where I was aware of being spoken to and answering but felt like I was hovering above myself. Combination of cold and mooncup time were meaning I was fading fast. I did some tidying up and we headed for home while I could still envisage managing to pop into Tescos for the few bits we needed.
They had Curious George for £5 something, which I wanted to buy since we saw it at the cinema so I didn’t take much persuading for that and a few other bits we needed including a couple of pairs of jeans for Davies who seems to be perpetually short of clean trousers so for £2.25 a pair it’s worth having a couple of spares. Home for first viewing of Curious George, two cups of tea and a quiet hour on the sofa finishing my book for me and then early tea for the children before getting Davies ready for Beavers.
Ady arrived home and like weather house characters as he pulled up and got out of his car we got in it and drove to the fire station. I’d lost the slip of paper with the details of the trip to the fire station on it and although I knew it didn’t start at 530pm like Beavers does I couldn’t remember whether it was 545 or 6pm. So we parked outside and waited until more Beavers appeared before going in. I’d intended asking if I could stay, particularly as they were short of CRB checked parents to have the ratio correct and thought that even if I just stayed and assumed responsibility for D I would be easing the burden. Also I was quite interested to see inside a fire station – and no, I’m not remotely interested in seeing all the burly firemen – not really my thing! Seems they are indeed the thing of plenty of other women though as there were lots of giggling mothers there wanting to stay so having ensured Davies was ok with me waiting outside I went and sat back in the car with a book and a bag of humbugs. Which was probably what finished me off for today really, it was cold and a bit miserable.
D came out full of it and having gotten the names of two Beavers who he’d like to invite round to play so I’ll work out who their parents are next week and ask them about it. He’d not been allowed to slide down the pole 🙁 but had been inside a fire engine. When I arrived he was quite the little ringleader chatting away to the fireman and encouraging the other lads to say things. At least he flies the flag for HE children not being shy, reserved or unable to communicate with others I guess ;).
Tomorrow we have a couple of things to do in town but other than that we are free so I’m planning lots of sitting around doing not a lot for me and hopefully activities like reading stories, doing jigsaws and watching films with the children ready to restore me for work on Wednesday. Oh and Tarly has her MMR booster due on Wednesday too so I’ll have to see how she’s doing with her cold but I think she’ll be over it sufficiently by then.
Curious George, the film passed me by completely but I love the soundtrack!
Really glad to hear Beavers is going so well for Davies, and hope you all feel better today.
Comment by Sarah — 27 February 2007 @ 6:21 am
Someone said to me recently that *firemen* were increasingly not allowed to use the pole (Health & Safety, natch), let alone visiting kids. Soudns liek fun – E just miissed a fire station visit with BB, but I think we’re planning an HE group one in the coming months.
Comment by Alison — 27 February 2007 @ 8:39 am
mine loved curious george too -must look out for it.
I’m trying to get Marcus to try Beavers this Friday, so shall be telling him about Davies’ adventures at the fire station!
Hope the cold didn’t get worse
Comment by Kirsty — 27 February 2007 @ 8:42 am
Yeah I didn’t really expect him to be allowed down the pole but it seemed like the right thing to ask him 🙂 He said one of the adults had been allowed a go but I’m not sure if that was an accompanying Beaver adult or a firefighter! He did say there was a big pile of cushions round the base to make sure no one hurt themselves so it’s clearly had a risk assessment done!
Comment by Nic — 27 February 2007 @ 2:36 pm
Why didn’t you come in for tea??? Hope you’re feeling better today.
Comment by Lucy — 27 February 2007 @ 9:09 pm
main fire station in Broadwater, not our local one. 🙂 Took me ages to work out what you meant, so I guess the answer to me feeling better is I’m still a bit foggy!
Comment by Nic — 27 February 2007 @ 10:17 pm