I’m not a morning person. Anyone who knows me will testify to that effect, so when I found myself wide awake shortly after 6 this morning, I was not amused. However, I decided to make use of the quiet, and got up and got started on a few bits, and actually knocked a couple of things off my to do list. I was impressed.
And then the day started properly, with children and work and stuff. Got through the morning fairly well, but by the afternoon, lack of sleep was beginnng to make itself felt.
I rallied a bit around lunch, and we read another couple of chapters of the book. It’s getting pretty exciting now and Big is very into it. Small listens, but bumbles around doing whatever as well, guess I’ll probably find out some day that he’s been taking mental notes! He floored me today with something he said, can’t remember what it was, but was a polysyllabic word that I hadn’t hear from him before, and used utterly correctly. And this from a child who still can’t pronounce ’sp’ and therefore eats breakfast with a ‘foon’.
And after lunch, I took it into my head that we’d do some maths. Now one of these days I’m going to learn that going head to head with Big doesn’t do either of us any good. We manage better when we’re doing something we are both interested in, and right at the moment, despite her voluntarily doing workbooks yesterday, she isn’t all that interested in maths. So it took the best part of an hour to do a page worth of questions (pictorial questions this is!) and recite the 2x table successfully right the way through.
And after that, I tried to do some paperwork. Don’t quite know who I was kidding! I did get the washing hung out and played tag with the wasps for a while, then I called it quits, loaded the kids into the car and headed off to the library so that we could pick up the Reading Mission card for Big.
It was a different librarian this week, and she was ever so kind to Big, explaining all about how the system worked and asking how we’d heard about it. She looked a bit taken aback when I pointed out it was our third year! Small briefly wanted a card, but went off the idea just as quickly, which was just as well, as they really didn’t seem set up for that. Makes me cross actually, if it’s all about encouraging children to love books, why on earth haven’t they got a set up for young kids to bring their books home and get stickers?
Oh, and the library were having a sale on tudor books, so Big was rather thrilled when I rifled through the box and grabbed her a load. What *is* it with little girls and the tudors??? They had two copies of Tudors (History Insights S.)
, so if anyone fancies a copy, give me a yell and I’m sure we can do a deal
On to Morrisons to spend my Smiles voucher and get tea, and pick them up a magazine each. Took Small seconds to find a Bob the builder mag, but Big agonised over a wide variety of pink things. Actually, by the time we were done, I was hopping mad. How come once children get past about the age of 4 they are supposed to be either pink or violent? The only non gender specific mag I could find was Art Attack, and she didn’t want that because the free gift was texture pads, and she already has texture pads. So she chose some pink thing about fairies, or princesses, got back to the car, and then sobbed all the way home as there was absolutely nothing in it that was worth more than about a minute of her time.
Anyone think we could get a magazine published that wasn’t quite so pink or violent? What do the rest of your children read?
Right, and now I’m knackered again, so I’m going to go to bed and hope that this time I sleep through til morning. Office tomorrow.