I worked in the morning. As predicted no one had done the Summer Reading Challenge display and it was ready and waiting for my return from holiday. I wasn’t feeling particularly inspired to do anything creative so used the promotional materials of posters etc that had come featuring the Space Hop characters, did some photocopying and enlarging and made some 3d versions of them pop out from a black background on the wall. I added a scrunched up silver paper moon, lots of photocopied little aliens and books off the posters and might make some stars to fill in the gaps next time I’m in.
I signed a couple of children up, listened to two children who had already read their first books and then it was home time. Ady had run me in and came back to collect me. Home for a quick bit of lunch and then back out again as Davies and Scarlett had been invited to a friend’s 9th birthday party.
I’d sent Debs (party Mum and host) a text to say D&S would love to come and she’d said there was an adult’s zone at the end of the garden so we were welcome to stay around too. The only parties D&S have ever really been invited to tend to be friends of the whole family so actually the idea of not staying hadn’t even occurred to me – another one of those reminders that actually we *are* a bit different! 😆
We arrived and Davies and Scarlett got pulled straight into a game with a load of other lads running around with toy weapons and walkie talkies. At that point we were the only other parents around so we stayed in the adult zone with tea chatting to Debs and Jezz while all the kids rampaged about. More parents arrived on and off so we chatted to various people and drank the steady stream of tea (and ate cakes). The weapons game was replaced with a full on water fight with water pistols and water bombs so most kids were by now sugar crazed, soaking wet and having an absolute ball.
Caz and Bid arrived near the end of the official party and when everyone else had gone home our kids and the six of us sat chatting further and eventually moved onto drinking wine. I think we could all have sat there all night but at about 830pm it was getting chilly and I was aware the kids needed some proper food as they don’t tend to eat the party food like pizza and sausage rolls.
we came home, I fed Davies and Scarlett and Ady made a curry for us and thanks to not having slept properly still I was falling asleep on the sofa by 11pm so went up to bed for an Early Nic Night. Scarlett was still awake so ended up appearing in bed with me too which meant I still didn’t get my decent nights’ sleep.