Had invited Big’s friend C round for a playdate, but didn’t tell the children til this morning as I couldn’t stand the steadily mounting excitement pitch that I would have had, nor the disappointment if she didn’t turn up. Was getting slightly panicked as it passed the appointed time, but she did show, maybe 10 minutes later than I’d expected. Phew.
Girls played nicely together and Small putered away on his own, so all was happy, or so I thought. After lunch however, I was proved horribly wrong, as per usual, when Big had a meltdown and everything was because of me, and it wasn’t fair that Small had been able to play on the computer all morning, and I should have told her C was coming beforehand, because I never tell her anything and “I hate you!”, screamed at ear damaging pitch.
Sigh. Unsurprisingly C looked somewhat deflated by this, and when her mum rang a little later to ask if she was ready to be picked up, the answer was a resounding yes.
I really don’t think Big realises how badly she shoots herself in the foot at times. I did try to talk to her about it, but it’s so difficult to get her to take something like that on board without her just sinking into a quagmire of self hatred and pity. Hohum.
So after that the two of them putered yet more, then I cooked tea (bubble and squeak, bacon, eggs, beans or a subset thereof depending on the individual since you ask), rested for a bit, then read yet more Kaspar, while they did maths again. Small is now 40 pages into his 140 page pupil book, I hope that his workbooks arrive soon or we’re going to run out, at which point he’ll have caught up to the same stage as Big. I was kind of hoping that I could pace them along keeping them apart for a little while at least!
And I really need to find the base ten blocks, as both of them need them now. Am sure they must be in the garage somewhere. Unless of course they are in the other garage 🙁
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