Kirsty came over today – and arrived just in time to join in with this mornings artistic endeavours. Turned out to be ever so funny – I was trying to do some kind of paint effect with bubbles – what we ended up with was three paint spattered children! Really wish I could find the camera cable to upload some piccies (hope I’ve got some decent ones at that!)
Then we had lunch, and afterwards got dd’s duplo train out (although I did also seize the opportunity to hoover along the way! Well, you can’t waste it when you actually manage to clear the rug, can you?). Dd lost it after a little while and started clobbering ppl 🙁 so we had timeout and a bit of a chat upstairs. Seems that she is finding having ppl round more difficult now that she isn’t going out to nursery – although dp did point out, very accurately, that we don’t really know what all the kids were like at nursery. Hm.
Anyway, after we’d all calmed down, we went out and put the tent up again – I’d like to be putting it up regularly, can’t think of anything worse than finding myself in an unfamiliar campsite, many miles from home, with kids, without partner and then also having a tent that I don’t know how to put up. It was easier today than last time, I think I’m getting the hang of it. The kids ran in and out of it, and crawled under the walls, and generally got very hyper, and Kirsty and I started to get a tiny bit excited. Decided that we’ll get together again next week, and that we need to start figuring out what else we need (like, everything!)
Then Kirsty and crew headed for home, and dd and I put the tent down, quite successfully between us. Suspect it would have been quicker on my own, but still.
Getting a bit worried about dd’s behaviour again – she hit me today, and I can’t remember the last time she did that. She’s also getting extremely confrontational, and we struggle to talk things through – she used to talk to me loads, but I can’t help feeling that at the moment she doesn’t really want to talk to me at all. Dp and I are discussing it through and I know that it is me that has to change, but I’m struggling to figure out how.
Anyway, time to do a bit of work, ds is crawling around the floor destroying the place, so I think I’ll think about websites.
