sleep deprivation

Doesn’t matter how well I’ve got it planned if I’ve had no sleep!

So so far today we’ve had two rows, one successful hama session, two broken hama boards (aargh…) and a desperate need to go and cry in a corner. Trying and trying to sort out the templates to make more hama letters and keep getting the sizing all wrong (and if I wasn’t so tired that wouldn’t be a problem, but I wasted my whole hour and all I have to show for it are lots of bits of paper with letters the wrong size!), but dd did another car with the larger size beads (discovered we only have the car shaped board (thought we had a square one) so difficult to do anything much else. Dd tried to clip two of the smaller boards together and contrived to snap off 11 of the little pegs (double aargh) and I’ve just realised that part of the problem is that I forgot to have breakfast.

So I think the next activity had better be lunch…


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