Despite working until half past midnight I still managed to get up at a halfway reasonable time yesterday. I can’t actually remember what I did with the day – think it may mainly have involved doing washing and feeling sorry for myself, but at least I didn’t spend it all in bed. I did fall asleep in the bath at one point though.
This makes it all the more surprising that we managed to have an in depth discussion with Big about finances, sparked off by her finding a cheque book. (Can’t actually remember what we were looking for at the time, I know it wasn’t the cheque book though. Isn’t that always the way?) From there we went on to talk about interest in terms of what you get when you save money, and interest in terms of what you pay when you borrow money (for example for buying a house) and more about savings and bank accounts and all sorts of things. She’s got into the idea of planning ahead – has realised that if she saves her weekly pocket money up she gets to buy more interesting things. Hence yet another trip to build-a-bear workshop today 🙁
Not sure what else happened to the day. Oh yes, I went and got fish and chips, I remember that. Oh, and I got out my exercise kit of stretchy elastic bands and exercised. This caused many issues when I refused to let the children play with them (bad mummy, horrid mummy). Quite intrigued to discover that Small can do press ups, was about to say no idea where he learnt those, and have just remembered Lazy town!
This morning dragged myself out of bed very early when I heard suspicious noises from the bathroom. Was greeted by a semi-naked Small who presented me with a large roll of toilet paper saying “these are the pyjama trousers that I weewee-ed on”. Lovely. He’d also made his third attempt in two days to block the toilet by using vast quantities of toilet roll in one go, so he got his second stern talking to. Then I washed him down, stripped his bedding off and shoved it in the wash, and went back to bed.
Got up again at 9 to prepare for party day along with trip to M’hell for aforementioned shopping spree. Unfortunately did not account for the fact that the shops there don’t open til 11, so we were there at 10.30, used up some time getting petrol, then had a drink, and finally shopped. Left the carpark at 11.30 and somehow still arrived at the party only 5 minutes late.
The party was being held at the kids school, which at least meant I wasn’t risking getting lost. Abandoned the kids to the slightly bemused and bemusing entertainer, and got to spend a bit of time chatting about education, SATs, my children and montessori. Big is doing very nicely – as mentioned previously they’ve been talking about peace. Fascinating to hear about that from Ailsa’s point of view though.
Party went as well as can be expected (lots of small children getting horribly overexcited, various wails and tantrums, mainly on Big’s part). ETA forgot the car ed on the way home about evolution, creationism, beliefs and tolerance. Big has come a long way since the flat “I don’t believe in God and it’s wrong of anyone else to as well!” : ) Got home quite early, so mowed the lawn, can that count as today’s exercise? It’s quite hard work! Also managed to pour grass clippings over my hand, which wouldn’t have been too much of a problem had they not also contained nettle clippings. Ow, ow, ow and ow.
Downloaded and installed Scratch for a bit of a play, and discovered two children entranced by it. Accordingly am currently downloading and installing on the machine in the dining room so that they can have another play tomorrow. That will be before I load them up and take them to school for afterschool club tomorrow evening. Hm. This two ppl working lark is terribly complicated. Have also spent more time party planning – found another party favours site that does fabric bags for a reasonable price, so rather tempted by those 🙂
And that’s the weekend. Really feels as if I blinked and missed it – daren’t go to bed too early tonight though as I won’t make it through tomorrow if I wake up too early. Children already prepped to let me sleep in a little!
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