Especially when it has adverse effects on the children 🙁
This morning we were due to set out early or mid morning for historyetc. I stayed up late trying to get stuff done beforehand, and then got up early to finish things off. And we still didn’t leave home until 12.30 🙁
This meant that the children missed the morning crafts and lunch with their friends and if I had been organised enough to be bringing something with me everyone would have been waiting for it. So perhaps there is a bright side to being disorganised and unprepared. (As an aside I have now figured out my contributions from now on. I’m going to get a batch of pegdolls and a pile of remnant material and each time I’ll look up a costume related to the period we’re doing. Then they can all end up with a little collection of historically dressed pegdolls. And as a second contribution I’m going to provide a pile of lapbook blanks and some suggestions for bits that can go in them and then especially older children who run out of things to do can fill them in with whatever takes their fancy 🙂 Job’s a good ‘un.)
However, I managed to send some emails, and deliver an iPad to the post office, although it would have helped if I’d looked into how to return the @WomWorldNokia E72 *before* I tramped it down to Smiths (which admittedly is only 5 minutes further down the road than the post office, but still, it was 5 minutes I could have done without spending out and about). Which is why I still have the E72 😉
Where was I?
Oh yes, history.
The children, when we finally arrived, loved it. They made jade rune stones and silk bags to keep them in, made shakers, listened to African stories and helped cook papayan fried rice. And of course there was playing and chatting and time to go on the wii and ds.
The adults may have found time to drink wine and eat takeout curry 😉
And soa has bounced, crawled, giggled, slept, eaten, cruised and generally been an utterly adorable one year old.
One year old. I can barely believe it even now.
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