Today has been a very quiet day, not least because when I went to get up to sort out the table Small had “poured milk all over!”, I made it to the landing, grabbed my dressing gown off the rail and then fell over, very ungracefully and in slow motion, backwards, staggering back through the doorway into Big’s bedroom (where thankfully she’d cleared the floor on Friday or it could have been rather more disastrous) and sat down heavily and somewhat surprised. I still don’t quite know what happened. Somewhere in the middle of it I caught my hand on something hard and smashed a nail up, but that was the only sign. So I gingerly put myself back to bed, and stayed there for another three hours.
When I got up, I still felt woozy, so Tim brought my toast and marmalade on the couch, and we didn’t have a family lunch together 🙁 Ah well, it was never going to happen every day. Then we had a family day of watching many movies. They were just finishing Doctor Who, the Christmas special with Donna in it, and then after they’d lunched, we watched Peter Pan [2003]
. That was good, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The children seemed to as well. Once we’d finished that, we went on to The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking [1988]
which I didn’t like quite as much, but was still bearable. Big amused herself during this one with a tissue paper flower craft kit, which did give rise to one shouting session – she shouted at me, I sat here calmly – but overall went well.
Round about the end of the film, Tim came down from his bath, and I went up to enjoy it, coming back down to find them on their second run through of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005]
. I am wondering if a look behind the techniques of something like stop motion animation would be good for Small – I do want to do more art with him, just to get him to experiment a little more. He is very interested in the various how to draw cartoons/ manga/ monster type book in the library and I said I would work through one with him, so we’ll go and choose something tomorrow.
They’ve had tea now and are crashing around in the bath – do other ppl’s children crash in baths or is it only ours? Small has been warned he needs to come back down though – he forgot to clear his plate off the table at teatime, which was unfortunate as it had a chicken bone on it and we have a cat. The cat is now safely (and rather crossly) outside, and the plate and debris are waiting for Small to come and fix – we want him to understand there is a reason for clearing up at the end of a meal.
Tomorrow Tim is off on another round trip to London. I have vague plans – the best kind I feel 🙂 The christmas decorations are coming down, not least so I can do some excavation on this room, which also needs airing out for a while. I’ve washing to do, and I’ve promised them a library trip, which will get us out and about. We can make a start on our body project and Big can do more craft kits if she feels inclined.
I need to decide whether I can afford the full hit of the OU courses I want, and if so ring in and get them arranged, and make a start on gathering paperwork together to get it in some sort of order. If we can find Big’s new cookbook, which I think is this Kids’ First Cook Book (Dk Activity Guides)
we’ll discuss some meals and maybe walk into town for some ingredients, and that will probably be enough to break us in gently. Must think some more about maths for them both and if I’m going to order anything, get it ordered. Oh, and I want a wallplanner – we’ve got a white board but it’s magnetic and currently covered in poetry tiles that Small is using so I don’t want to repurpose it just now. Should be possible to get a wallplanner cheaply now that it’s already January, or I suppose I can use some of the drawing paper we’ve got all over the place and make my own, month by month. Actually, I could get Small to do it, which might get us somewhere with his understanding of how the year works.
That sounds like a plan, doesn’t it? But not too constricting a one 🙂
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