Swimming lessons today. Yet another run through of what school would be like as we struggled to get out of the house on time. Small is horrendous in the morning, makes me wonder how we did do almost 2 years of commuting. (It was simple, I dressed him and put him in the car, he ate breakfast while I drove and had come round nicely by the time we got there an hour later. And then he slept on the way home.)
Anyway, we were only 5 minutes late for his lesson, and he seemed to recover reasonably well to take part, although getting dressed again afterwards took a very long time and rather more shouting than I like to indulge in in public.
Big, by contrast, just gets on with it these days. Which is good, but not the proud mummy moment of the title.
It was badge day. When they get the certificates and badges that they’ve been working towards for the last 10 weeks. Small got his 10m badge (which made him very cross on several levels, one because it was pink, and he isn’t too fond of pink and secondly because pink isn’t in the rainbow and it’s supposed to be rainbow awards). I think 10m is pretty impressive for him and I’m very proud.
But I’m even prouder of my Big. She got her 800m badge. That’s 32 lengths of a 25m pool in 30 minutes. And this is a girl who just over a year ago couldn’t swim a length. She’s now more powerful and skilled in the water than either of her parents, and what’s more important, she adores it. Definitely a proud mummy moment all round 😀
So, that was a good moment. Didn’t quite wipe out the irritation level from only taking one nappy into the bathroom and then having the baby wee all over my hand, but it was close.
Was even harder to keep up the good spirits when we walked out of the leisure centre to find out it was raining. Not heavy rain. This was Suffolk rain, the kind of lazy rain that hangs around in the air and waits for you to walk through it to get wet. So we did.
It didn’t get us really wet. soa seemed to think the whole thing was quite funny, even though Small complained for the first 5 minutes. The part where he went on about it hailing was particularly annoying. (It wasn’t hailing. You couldn’t even say the rain was definitely falling. Honestly, he can be such a wuss at times.)
And that was about as active as I got all day. Didn’t take tent down, didn’t process any more washing, didn’t even cook this evening, just processed left overs into food (cold sausages, yesterday’s left over new potatoes into potato salad by adding mayonnaise and herbs from the garden, and boiled eggs. Oh, and carrots. Pretty good meal for no cooking and left overs tbh. (I don’t count boiling eggs as cooking.)) at tea time and slept most of the afternoon.
And as I can’t do that tomorrow as we’re AFK at HE group, I’d better go to bed now.
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