Most of the day got away from me today, but somehow I managed to retrieve the latter part of the afternoon and we headed out for fruit and to pop to the library. I should have known that popping and the library are mutually exclusive concepts where we’re concerned, but we did manage to leave voluntarily before closing time 😉
We also posted Big’s application form for swimming club. With a little note included asking for another one for Small, who was very unhappy with me for not getting one for him in the first place. In my defense, I’m sure when I first mentioned it he wasn’t interested, but somewhere along the way he changed his mind. We shall see whether it is an activity that he’s happy to leave the house for.
But back to the library. Small and I had a fall out about going when he refused point blank to find his overdue library books. Big and I hunted and still didn’t find two of them. So he’s on a one book rule until he starts looking after them, which I’m very unhappy to do, but at the same time we are so near to the library we can go every day if that is what it takes.
Managed to cheer him up while we were there by relaxing the rule almost immediately so that he could have a reading book (what were the chances of me keeping to a rule limited book acquisition, even on a temporary basis?) in the form of Doctor Who Code of the Krillitanes
. It looked right up his street 🙂 It’s a Quick Read so instead of being a full scale Doctor Who that he’ll get bogged down in, he should romp through it and it’ll be something else he’s read. Even picked one up for me, Hello Mum
, in the hope it might be something I can finish. Haven’t managed a whole novel since soa was born.
Big cot carried away finding books for work. I picked up Vote (Eyewitness)
and suggested she do a project on the forthcoming general election and she rather liked that idea, so we searched for some more books but they didn’t have any 🙁 (No wonder no one in this country knows anything about how the system works grumble mutter.)
Once we got home I showed her lapbooking courtesy of squidoo and mindmaps on bubbl.us. She was well away, and happily created a couple of pages for her book, while Small made a mindmap about electricity, which he wants to do a project on too.
Big broke off long enough to cook tea and we had a lovely, if rather late, family meal, and now suddenly it’s late, and I must away to bed with the sleeping baby 🙂
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