Long day of driving.

Long drive in the rain this morning.

Long drive in the dark tonight. Got home shaking after a complete idiot demonstrated the M1 way of driving – manoeuvre, signal, mirror. I really don’t enjoy having to do emergency stops in the middle lane 🙁 Took about two hours for the pains in my left arm to go away, I think I clamp on the steering wheel when something like that happens, and the adrenaline after shocks are less than enjoyable.

Tomorrow there will be less driving. The children start at their new nursery/school, so I’ve begged a bed for us for the night off the path, to cut down on the length of those first two days. Tim gets a quiet night on his own, which won’t do him any harm.

Big is excited but nervous, and I don’t think Small has taken in anything we’ve said about it so far. Not that I’ve tried to talk about it too much with him – didn’t want him to get worked up in advance. Wimp I know, but it’s so very difficult with a non communicating child. I’ve warned them at work that I may well be late, and I want to get up there good and early so I can spend time settling him in if necessary.

Good long story time tonight as I tried to get them to bed in good time. Big read to Small again – she is so happy that she can do that. Then she got four chapters of her Ballet Diary book, so she was pretty happy as well. Last night she was terribly upset that Tim didn’t get a story, but she didn’t seem to be too bothered tonight. Think we’ve finally managed to break down the fear she had that I would stop reading to her once she could read herself, and now she likes to make sure that we both read to each other, which works pretty well for me.

Now I’m amusing myself trying to write an online bookshop…