Up early this morning to wave Ady off – he is at some swanky and glamorous growing awards ceremony in London tonight. I could have gone too but I was working, we had no one to look after the kids and I’d have had to hire a ballgown. So actually, no I couldn’t have gone at all 😆 Which meant I had time for lots of cuddles with the children before I went to work myself.
D and I had a few conversations about making playing with younger children interesting, most of which he put into practise from a chat with Lucy later today, so that’s good. He often picks up on something he knows I am fretting about and perpetuates it but I’ve got lots of plans for stuff for him and I to do together and have promised to speak to some parents of Beavers next week and will also sort out a get together with Liam again soon as well as NicCamp so I think March will be a good month. 🙂
We picked up Lucy, R & R, I dropped them all back at our house and headed off to work. Another good day there although it felt really long for some reason. It was pretty busy and certainly didn’t drag but I don’t feel so much the new girl now, I have things to be getting on with and did a few ‘taking initiative’ type things today too which was good. I also (drum roll please) was praised again, which caused me to smirk with the knowledge I would dash home and blog it – if it had happened before lunch I’d have blogged in my lunchbreak about it ;). There is a vacancy for a 17 hours a week position which is slightly more than I work so I won’t even be The New Girl soon, there will be someone newer although with CRB checks etc they probably won’t actually start for months! 🙄 In my lunchbreak I dashed round the charity shops and picked up 3 jigsaws for 50p each – one 100 piece Little Mermaid one, one 100 piece nature one and a 13 piece teddy one which claims to be for 6+ years and has no picture for guidance promising to be challenging (though not specifically intellectually challenging 😉 ). D did it in about 2 minutes flat though so although he loves it it hardly seemed worthy of it’s ‘difficult’ tag or age guidelines. 🙄 S loves the Little Mermaid one though and made good headway with that – definitely 100 pieces are the way forward, she sat and did a smaller one practically with her eyes shut yesterday. I bumped into a friend in town too which was a nice catch up. She loves the idea of HE so was all enthusiastic in her questionning about that. She is the same age as Ady but they had their children young and her daughter has just had her second baby so she is twice a granny, which seems very odd to think, particularly as I remember her daughter (Nicola 🙂 ) being born 😯 surely that’s not right?!
Reports from child watchers and the state of the house suggest a good day here – Scarlett and Rebecca sound to have had a ball together and really seem to have gelled this last few weeks. I admit to starting to think we were simply forcing them into each others company and hoping for a friendship which was never going to happen but dynamics have changed between the four children and S and R have finally clicked :). Dad was on good form and seems to be really making an effort to be cheery and friendly so that’s good too. :).
Dad left shortly after I got home and the children settled straight into their new puzzles while I got their tea. They ate that watching Backyardigans and then went back to their puzzles before playing together for a while. Eventually I decided I wanted a bath and some wine so they went off to bed, I had my bath, my wine and my dinner and I’ll soon be heading to bed.