We will socialise.

Long day today (although not compared to a working day. That seems like another life already, although it’s not even a month ago yet). Got up with the alarm, or as near as I ever do, and tootled off into town to get yeast and stuff to take to HE group (bought dates, that’s Greek isn’t it?) and then went to wait at the doctors. I try to be understanding about waiting at doctors, but it can be rather annoying – there appeared to be three doctors wandering about staffing the non appt urgent clinic, which meant if you walked in off the street you got seen pretty much immediately, while I was 25 minutes after my appt time before I was called. Still, not like I’m working or anything I suppose.

So, the doctor will explore the criteria for referral to the recurrent miscarriage service, which was not what was said at the hospital, but never mind, and I’ve got a blue piece of paper to go and present myself for an X-ray on my hip also at the hospital. I’m going to try to get that done tomorrow, as it can take two weeks for the results to come back. It seems unlikely I’m going to get very far with any kind of referral for anything before we end up moving, but it doesn’t hurt to try.

Then home to load up the kids and explore lesser known bits of Hudds looking for a home ed group. Found it just as they were doing circle time, and sat with Small doing shy and Big doing pathetic, then Small went and got stuck into an activity while Big burst into tears and clung to my side. Right. So three years at school have done her the world of good in developing social skills, haven’t they? This was despite the fact that C, M and J from offthepath were there, who she’s known since before there was a J!

I pottered about and helped in the kitchen, chatted to various ppl a bit, and occasionally interacted with my children, although I could have quite cheerfully strangled Big who was periodically crying (real tears) for no apparent reason. The session was on Ancient Greeks, Small made an abacus

and then drew a labyrinth

before moving on to paint a plate. I don’t have a picture of that – I gave up on the camera phone as it wasn’t doing too well (really annoyed with myself for forgetting the camera, especially as I said to Tim last night that I needed to remember it).

Big finally found something to do and painted a plate as well – she made a really good effort at a dolphin in Greek style. Then we had lunch 🙂 (well, after lining up in alphabetic order according to the Greek alphabet).

After lunch they played outside for a while, until Small got slightly pulled about – mainly due to the fact that he was playing a game where he was guarding the gate and waiting for a password, but he hadn’t told anyone else about the game. Hm. So he came inside and looked sorry for himself and wanted to go home, but I managed to distract him with a book of Aesop’s fables (a particularly lovely version, wish I’d taken note of the author eta ah, think it was this Aesop’s Funky Fables) and he read that for a while. I helped clear up in the kitchen in lieu of taking an activity and eventually it was time to go home.

Got back and watched High School Musical – first time I’ve actually seen it. Wasn’t all that impressed tbh.

And now it’s in the countdown to bedtime. The children have not hugely amused me today with Big whimpering for an hour this morning, and Small being horrid this evening. Once they’ve gone up I can get stuck into some nice well behaved maths instead. Good.