Worked this morning, which all seems rather a blur and a long time ago now. So nice to have a job where having a week off doesn’t mean you walk back into all the things you would have done if you’d been there for that week backed up waiting for you to wade through :). But also a list of my hours for the next couple of weeks over Easter which pose me childcare issues again – will start doing my rounds of asking for help again on that one tomorrow 🙄 I’ve just about got my normal working hours covered now but the three days closing over Easter means we need to make hours up elsewhere and there is no real flexibility on when we do that unfortunately – I’m sure I could be awkward but I’d really rather save that for when it’s a dire emergency.
I got home to find children playing with walkie talkies with delight and doing a variety of other activities including drawing (Tarly) and geomagging (Davies). We had vague ideas of going to a park or the beach to make the most of the sunshine but Richard and Rebecca both fell asleep (Birthdays are tiring work 🙂 ), Scarlett got really into her drawing and Lucy and I got chatting (with helpful asides from Davies on topics such as Education City 🙂 ) and I for one couldn’t be bothered to move actually 🙂 😳
We took Lucy and co home and got back to find Ady hanging about in the garden having gone out without any keys. The children had tea and then Davies and I went to Badgers. I popped to the supermarket for a few bits and came back to sit in the car and read my book (for book group this month we are all reading as many of the nominated long list orange prize books as possible ready for an event coinciding with the winner being announced during the local festival which the library plays an active role in – my first one to read is Poppy Shakespeare which I’m enjoying so far). About 20 minutes before the end of Badgers they all came piling out to play on the grass outside the building – there was about 15 children all playing ‘stuck in the mud’ and I actually out my book down to sit and watch them, laughing out loud at their antics. It sounds crazy to say I was proud of Davies and actually that’s probably the wrong word but I just felt so overjoyed to see him so much part of the group, laughing with the sheer delight of playing a game, being popular and really just enjoying being a child. I never was that child, never was part of a group, simply accepted for who I was and enjoying just being me. I never got any delight from running around or playing physical games and certainly never did anything like Badgers out of school anyway. It is so hard to equate Davies as he is in that group, and indeed as he is when most of the people who read this blog meet him with both my own experience of childhood and with the clingy, shy, unsure of himself and desperate not to be by my side four year old Davies once was. I know I harp on about this but having had such a lovely couple of days watching Davies just enjoying his life so much really reinforces the choices I have made for him and the pace we have taken things too.
He came out with a new baseball cap which he’s been wanting a while to go with his Badger uniform, two badges and certificates (first aid and a bronze badgers award) and a rabbit he’d made and decorated filled with chocolate eggs. Loving the crafty gifts that Beavers and Badgers is supplying – he came home with a sealed Easter card from Beavers on Monday too :).
I’m hoping the lovely weather is going to hold for at least one more day as we’re off to Julie’s tomorrow planning a nice day in her garden, oh and finally in hatchwatch news I’m pretty sure I saw movement inside at least two of the eggs when I candled them tonight – will take photos / video tomorrow when I do them.
Very gray day here, hope you’re having better weather!
Comment by Alison — 29 March 2007 @ 9:15 am