We needed to be up and out really early (well for us, anyway) so obviously staying up until 1.30 was the thing to do. Sigh. but I had to back up my netbook again to send away *again* for repair around the intermittent white screen fault.
(As an aside, if anyone from Samsung should happen to read this, I am not impressed. I love my NC10
, and I wanted to go on loving my NC10, and even when it developed this built in fault, I was prepared to go on loving it if you delivered the wonderful customer service that two of my friends had received, but it was out of warranty and you basically told me to go away. Really not impressed. I will not be Samsunging again, no matter how much I love my NC10.)
So the netbook was backed up and boxed up for its travels, and I was awake so many times during the 6 hours I had in bed, so when the alarm went off it was a real drag to get up. We obviously didn’t leave the house to get to town for swimming at 10 – it was nearer 10.30 when we finally got into the water, but at least we made it.
Good to be in the water with all three children, and slightly astounded to discover that I basically have two very efficient swimmers. Big we knew about (did I mention she swam 30 lengths (of a 25m pool) in 30 minutes last night? And had time left over and wasn’t out of breath? Well impressed with her) although it was still good to see it up close. Small I didn’t really know about, but it turns out he has a very nice looking breaststroke, a slightly breathy crawl and a floundering backstroke. I’d guess he’s really not that far from being moved up a group at his lessons either (wonder if we’ve still got the next hat in the cupboard!)
And soa loved the water. The pool is fantastic for babies – water is really warm and so is the air temperature, so it’s just like being in a big bath, but without getting overheated. We were in for nearly hour and a half, and she was happy throughout, only getting cross during the getting dried bit. Definite result.
From there we went on to a local park with the swimming friends, and being an incompetent mummy, I scrounged food for my children from other parents. (The chances I was going to have a picnic lunch organised for leaving the house before 10 are always minimal 🙁 ) Park was nice, though rather swamped by school groups presumably on end of term outings. My children were hugely unhappy about this, one of the benefits of home ed as they see it is in not having to share the play equipment 😉
And eventually home again. Where Small rushed to the pc to continue with some writing he’s doing about one of his superheroes (creativity, pc literacy, english, tick) and Big picked up yet another Princess Diaries
book (don’t want to think about it. Tick.)
All of which means that today we haven’t fitted in any maths, but given that we did an hour one to one last night on perimeters while I was trying to cook tea (home educators do it anywhere, anytime) I guess we didn’t really need to fit any more in today.
We won’t get any done tomorrow either. Or not much, given that tomorrow I have to run around frantically and get organised to go to Festival of History on Friday.
Wonder when I’ll get my netbook back 🙁
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