Knew I should have blogged yesterday

while the going was good 🙁

So let’s concentrate on that then.

We had some painful reading sessions – painful as in forgetting the word she read the line before and not recognising it again. Nevertheless, we staggered through three pages of Witchy-witch. Then in the afternoon we went to the library, where Small picked up his bookstart+ pack – well worth going out for, as it had two very nice books in it, as well as a drawing pad, set of crayons and the bag itself is a nice red bookbag. He was thrilled with it and carried it ever so carefully back to the car 🙂

Big chose another beginner book, and I also found a very nice book on Elizabeth I which she was thrilled with. Meant that the afternoon was filled quite nicely with the trip out, and then they occupied themselves while I cooked tea.

After bath time Tim read to Small and Big and I came downstairs and by her request started on the Elizabeth book. We read 19 pages, and she thoroughly enjoyed spotting many of the portraits that we’d looked at the other night. No idea how much of what we’re talking about is going in, but I’m really quite chuffed with the level of interest she’s showing. Also quite amused that it’s the Tudors again, seems to be the in thing with five year old girls!

Today has not been so good.

Big woke up with a nightmare and came into bed with us. Unfortunately, she woke up Small in the process, who was convinced it was morning, and took a long time to be persuaded otherwise. Which meant I slept in and was woken by my mother on the phone wanting to organise a shopping trip.

This morning has not been good. It keeps raining, so we’ve mainly been inside, and Big keeps building tents, which Small wants to share and which then fall down. We’ve had any number of arguments over any number of little things, ending in a full scale tantrum which led to me warning her not to slam the door or we wouldn’t go out this afternoon….

Damn. Ever had one of those moments when you really really wish you hadn’t made a particular promise? Doors don’t get slammed in this house. Tim particularly hates it happening, and Small has had his fingers trapped at least twice I can recall because of it, so it’s something we crack down on. So we aren’t going out this afternoon, and it’s looking like it’s going to be a very long day.

Big is hugely disappointed, as am I. We had arranged to go to a fellow puddlers house for the first time, and I was very reluctant to cancel it, but felt I had to.

So, how to reclaim the day? I feel that right atm I am deferring success 😉 in a few too many areas and I’d rather like to reclaim it. This is not who I thought I was, iyswim.

Oh, and in the morning I’ve got a phone interview for another job. Tim is at a business meeting all day, so I’m hoping Grandma can come over a bit earlier than previously arranged so that she can childmind while I’m being business like.

Anyway, I’m sure there was lots more about yesterday that I wanted to blog – Small is really taking off with his signs, and he cracked me up completely when he suddenly recognised that his soft toy fimble, bought at Christmas is the same as something on the tv. You’ve gotta laugh, haven’t you? 😆