quick recap – it’s been an important week I think, and I don’t want to gloss over it.
Wednesday morning was our free showing of Cat in the Hat, and I got us up and organised on time, and was outside the cinema, having successfully negotiated the city centre, found the car park and all the rest of it, for 9.45. Unfortunately, I was outside the wrong cinema 🙁 Whatever did we do without mobile phones? Rang home, got dp to check the email – guess what, I should have been at the nice easy to park at out of town cinema. *sigh* Drag miserable offspring back to car (paying £1.80 for the privilege of parking for 3 minutes!) – ring the organiser of the outing, let them know we’re on the way, ignore small voice from the back seat saying “B’s mummy wasn’t late” (aargh….) and arrive at the correct screen in the correct cinema just as the titles start – hah!
Dd loved the film – I thought it was dire, and highly inappropriate. A lot of the jokes were very smutty, and Dr Seuss is presumably spinning rapidly in his grave somewhere – most of it went over dd’s head though, for which small mercy I was grateful – wouldn’t have liked to try to explain the dirty hoe joke for example.
Then we went on for lunch – couldn’t eat at Sainsburys as planned as they had half the seating cordoned off for no apparent reason (why? It’s lunchtime!) and ended up in Debenhams. Was overcharged, but managed to find a small amount of assertiveness to complain and get money back – food there is really overrated, but I like to go out for lunch every now and then with the children – it’s a nice treat for us all.
Home for an hour or two and I cooked mushroom risotto – which seemed to go quite well, although took longer than I expected. Neither dd or ds liked it which was a shame, but dp thought it was ok, if a little bland (which is the problem with trying to cook for the whole family including the 10 month old baby) so I reckon it was a success.
Then out to Woodcraft folk – it’s a pleasant evening for me as well – the other adults there are welcoming ppl (although I did struggle to keep a straight face at the end of the night, when we were exorted to make friends with a tree, um, yes well…) and the children are very good with dd. The session was on trees, and dd drew a wonderful picture – if I can find it around the place, I’ll scan it and pop it up. It had roots, trunk, branches, leaves and a butterfly.
Home and a late supper and an early night.
Another day with few disagreements, and dd being the mature little girl that she used to be. She is thriving again, and it’s wonderful to see.
Not sure whether I’ve previously mentioned ds latest achievement – he can clap his hands together to make a sound – he is thrilled with this. He is so different to how dd is it’s almost untrue – he sits and does his best to take things apart and he will try and try again – dd won’t try to do something if she isn’t sure how to carry it through – she is determined to get things right. Difficult to assist when often I’m not sure what is meant by getting it right.
