been to the doctors this morning, as I’m now out of self-certification time frames. Slightly surprised when he gave me a three week sick note (although I can go back sooner than that if I get tired of staring at the walls, he’ll sign me off he said). Need to post that in to work – certainly don’t feel up to an office today, would be very offputting for my team members for me to keep bursting into tears all over the place. Or needing a lie down every hour or so.
So we’re all at home – Big is making a big effort to be better behaved today, while Small seems to have picked up some excellent tantrumming techniques. Think we’ll pop up to Bolsover this afternoon to look at swords – although Small is determined we should make one for him. Not sure how effective it would be though, as he wants it made out of modelling foam. Should stop him belting anyone over the head as he was attempting to this morning though!
Small has had 30 minutes by timer on the ‘puter, and now Big is having her turn. She did some Mr Men activity book while he was having his turn, and now he’s putting stickers into a Big Trucks book. He’s just recognised that it’s like Snap. We’ve found a press out castle book that we’ll bring with us this weekend, then Small can have a castle too. Saw a rather good hamster fort in a petshop yesterday that was tempting too – it was only £5 and had about 9 rooms I think.
Made a Barbie cloak last night with the pattern I’m planning on using for the kids cloaks. Did I blog that we went shopping for cloak material? Scenic tour of Sheffield – Tim didn’t recognise the road we were driving down, although it’s the one he went down everytime he dropped me off or picked me up for nearly 6 years, as they’ve demolished large numbers of the buildings and rerouted the traffic. Took ages to find our way into Fabric warehouse, though it was worth it for the red and purple velvet stuff we found. Bought myself some rather nice bamboo knitting needles as well, though if I’d seen the price beforehand, I think I’d have resisted! They are easier to knit with, might manage to knit up a couple of items with them, although the crochet chain mail is still preferred.
This whole preparing for castle day is very educational, although I think at the moment it’s Tim and I who are learning the most. Still, I’m sure some of it will stick with the kids as well.
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