are the best!
My set arrived from America this morning, and they are wonderful, plus they’ve got loads of activity cards and a handbook. Marvellous. And our opitec order arrived as well, so dd played with the rods on a new tray bought pretty much for that purpose.
We’d already done the paperweaving (incorporating scissor techniques for improving manual dexterity lol) before then. Dd also made her own lunch and did most of the washing up – she really seems to thrive on doing *real* things. An ex work colleague (made redundant at much the same time as me) came round for lunch, which was great, and apart from dd being desperate to be a part of the conversation she did very well throughout. So when friend had gone, I chucked the kids in the car and we tootled off to m*hell to shop for dancewear. Suffice it to say that I wasn’t about to spend the £45 the dance school wanted. We got shoes and tights and looked in every shop that could possibly have leotards – only one did, and they weren’t the uniform type. 🙁
But dd coped very well with the disappointment 😉 and we’d had a pretty good day all round I’d say. Plus dp has finished the dozen eggs, so I’m about to make a variation on a spindle box for use tomorrow. In between going to local town in search of leotards methinks. Sigh.
*Rant alert*
so what are sports shops for? Anyone ever thought that the current obesity epidemic that we hear so much about might be fixed if ppl actually did sports instead of just wearing fashionable tracksuits to drive to the gym? Eh?
I mean, I lost track of how many shops we went in. i could have bought adidas trainers for ds (ignore the fact he can’t walk yet!) or pink tracksuits for dd, or any number of fitted gym outfits for myself but leotards? Apparently not sport. So no one does gym or dance, but lots of ppl play in the England football team it would appear.
*/rant over*
