that gives me hope.
I’m not quite sure what the ingredients were that made it come together so well. An ordinary day – Tim sorted out the bikes, so Big has been riding up and down the road with Small pelting along (on foot) on the pavement. Maybe it was the exercise what done it?
Nothing particularly special for tea. Sausages, mash, home made coleslaw, bits of salad. (Looking forward to when it’s home grown salad. Sometime. 😉 ) And we had the radio on, playing gentle classical music in the background.
After we’d eaten, while the rice pudding (4pts of milk reduced to £1, thank you) was *still* cooking, we played 20 questions. And nobody chose anything too bizarre, and we worked all of them out. Kids quickly got ready for bed, and finally the rice pudding was ready. So while eating, we had a round of our own version of Pollyanna’s Glad Game – something I kicked off in the car last night to try to cheer up the two miseries I had in the backseat. It worked then, but only for a few minutes – obviously we need practice.
Tonight it just worked. With no prompting they listed all sorts of reasons to be cheerful from the rice pudding they had in front of them, to the playing on bikes, from enjoying playing the game to having the best family in the world. And when I almost brought the tone down by being cheerful that we don’t have only £1 a day to live on, Big managed to find a reason to be cheerful – that she can work to help fix that for other ppl.
I was very proud of her.
And it was a lovely evening. 🙂
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