We like to move it, move it…

with apologies to everyone who now has that ringing in their ears!

We’ve had a blissfully people free day today, having had my parents around for the last two days and for dinner both nights we have really appreciated not having to be remotely sociable today. 🙂

The children were awake early, Ady got up with them and as I’d had a dreadful nights’ sleep with cold sweats, tossing and turning and weird dreams I followed not too long afterwards at abolut 7.30am. We’d hidden small chocolate eggs around the lounge which they collected in their papier mache eggs and they had one small egg each – Scarlett’s came with a Dora cup, bowl and spoon and Davies’ came with a little box of K’nex. A friend had given Ady a tenner to get them Easter eggs from him but we spent the money instead of buying them Madagascar on dvd which has been watched twice and all of the extras much explored, including the learn to draw the characters bit which Davies sat for ages doing. 🙂 I got a Green & Black’s egg and I was extravagant and bought Ady one of these, which no, we probably couldn’t really afford but he’d been drooling over the adverts on TV and the look of utter delight on his face when I gave it to him was worth it. 🙂

The children have only gotten out of their pjs today long enough to have a bath after dinner and get back into clean sets and have spent time playing, eating chocolate and singing about ‘move it move it’. I also spent an hour or so getting my old laptop and Ady’s work laptop set up on the new wireless thingy I got yesterday so they spent some time sitting at their little table and chairs with a laptop each infront of them playing online Madagascar colouring in from the Dreamworks website. 🙂

Aside from doing that I have also almost finished my reading group book – Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling which I’ve found hard work but got quite into towards the final third of the book so at least I’ll be able to speak about that at reading group this week. I also spent some time in the playroom sorting through the cupboards but it was slightly half hearted as I was not in the right frame of mind for it really.

Ady has had a hugely productive day and removed the defunct pc from the playroom, taken down the table it was sat on, removed the computer chair and various pc related stuff and reshuffled the playroom so it looks like a real playroom. We’ve set up a car mat on the floor and have plans to bring an unused set of drawers from Tarly’s room to set up as a second set of craft drawers as the first set is constantly overflowing and I’d rather the children had access to pens, paper etc whenever they wanted it as it seems to occupy so much of their days. He’s also taken down and put back up all the various photos and posters in there including a load of ‘educational’ ones such as times table and number squares which once adorned walls at Joyce’s 🙂 It looks great in there now actually, don’t know whether the children will soak up any great mathematical skills but Ady is delighting on testing me on my times tables! 😉 Our final plan is to set up a clothes rail to hang the dressing up stuff on rather than it staying screwed up in the chest as it is at the moment.

Tomorrow Ady’s back at work again and I am as yet undecided as to my plans. We need food shopping which is slightly tiresome on a Bank Holiday and poor planning on my part really but hopefully if I get there early it won’t be too busy. Other than that I imagine the children will be watching Madagascar lots more and I intend starting on Catch 22 now I’ve done with my duty read.