Long day of driving.

Long drive in the rain this morning.

Long drive in the dark tonight. Got home shaking after a complete idiot demonstrated the M1 way of driving - manoeuvre, signal, mirror. I really don’t enjoy having to do emergency stops in the middle lane :( Took about two hours for the pains in my left arm to go away, I think I clamp on the steering wheel when something like that happens, and the adrenaline after shocks are less than enjoyable.

Tomorrow there will be less driving. The children start at their new nursery/school, so I’ve begged a bed for us for the night off the path, to cut down on the length of those first two days. Tim gets a quiet night on his own, which won’t do him any harm.

Big is excited but nervous, and I don’t think Small has taken in anything we’ve said about it so far. Not that I’ve tried to talk about it too much with him - didn’t want him to get worked up in advance. Wimp I know, but it’s so very difficult with a non communicating child. I’ve warned them at work that I may well be late, and I want to get up there good and early so I can spend time settling him in if necessary.

Good long story time tonight as I tried to get them to bed in good time. Big read to Small again - she is so happy that she can do that. Then she got four chapters of her Ballet Diary book, so she was pretty happy as well. Last night she was terribly upset that Tim didn’t get a story, but she didn’t seem to be too bothered tonight. Think we’ve finally managed to break down the fear she had that I would stop reading to her once she could read herself, and now she likes to make sure that we both read to each other, which works pretty well for me.

Now I’m amusing myself trying to write an online bookshop…

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16 Comments

  1. Merry
    Posted Mon Oct 24 2005 at 22:24 | Permalink

    Excellent, i could use one of those ;)

    Good luck tomorrow, text me :) I’ll be thinking of you all day.

  2. Barbara
    Posted Mon Oct 24 2005 at 22:38 | Permalink

    Yes, will be thinking of all of you tomorrow, and ugh to the emergency stop.

  3. Roslyn
    Posted Mon Oct 24 2005 at 22:56 | Permalink

    It will be fine I’m sure. Be positive and strong xxxx

  4. Nic
    Posted Mon Oct 24 2005 at 23:05 | Permalink

    Good luck tomorrow, will be thinking of you all

  5. chris F
    Posted Mon Oct 24 2005 at 23:36 | Permalink

    Yep, hope things pan out well with the school - hope the kids don’t find a long commute to get to school to much of a shock (nor you for that matter….)

  6. Sarah
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 7:50 | Permalink

    All the best for tomorrow, Jax, hope it goes really well for them and for you too.

  7. Sarah, Dino & Mimi
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 9:29 | Permalink

    It’s 9.30 and your 2 will be there by now. I hope it’s all going well.

  8. Alison
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 10:36 | Permalink

    Looking forward to hearing how it goes!

  9. Heather
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 19:07 | Permalink

    Hope it went well :-)

  10. Nic
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 19:13 | Permalink

    Hope it went well :-)

    Trying to email you with no luck - blogs are down again :-(

  11. chris F
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 21:38 | Permalink

    so how did it go?

  12. Tim
    Posted Tue Oct 25 2005 at 23:21 | Permalink

    The day went well apparently. Nice and quiet here. :-)

    Nic, what blogs, where did they go?

  13. stefndawniy
    Posted Wed Oct 26 2005 at 0:47 | Permalink

    hope the children had a good first day :)

  14. Nic
    Posted Wed Oct 26 2005 at 7:35 | Permalink

    Glad the day went well.

    I can’t see my own or any of the other CP hosted blogs, but have since discovered it’s just me :-( Also a prob with email ARGH!

  15. Gill
    Posted Wed Oct 26 2005 at 11:30 | Permalink

    Hope it goes well, and lovely to hear about the story-reading - inspiring! :)

  16. Jenny Lesley
    Posted Wed Oct 26 2005 at 14:50 | Permalink

    Hope it went well Jax, hugs to all.