Monday:
- hypothetical – if we lived in a tiny house and had only room to keep five personal things, what would she choose?
- Pottery 10-11:30
- German 12-1:00
Tuesday:
- visited Mel & family in Bungendore 1:30-4:30
Wednesday:
- watched “Why I Need An Apology” on SMH’s website, and a slideshow I can’t link to about a family for whom the apology was too little, too late
- watched the Apology live from PH
- Pa arrived to drop off bathtubs and horse manure while we were both in floods of tears watching Rudd’s subsequent speech, but didn’t mind us ignoring him in favour of the historic moment
- continued the discussion about bringing more simplicity into our lives
- watched a documentary on labour conditions inChinese factories and dictated a letter to family about the issue
- playing in the garden with K – K got sung by a native bee, and B brought in the insect (which she killed) so I showed her how I made the identification (4 wings = wasp/bee not fly; pollen carriers on legs = bee)
- playing MummyBethy in the garden with K
- tried to find some info herself on the LEGO website about where their components are manufactured – I found her the Annual Report which described how the main production facility is in Denmark but subsidiary factories are going up in Mexico and Eastern Europe. She asked if they used slave labour but I have no idea how to find out. She decided that on the whole LEGO could go on her OK list 🙂
- lunch ~2pm
- other stuff?
- horseriding 4-5; we also picked a big bag of apples from various feral trees on our way home
Thursday
- HENCAST – Fun Factory ~12:15-2pm
- did stuff with E in the afternoon(?)
- cooked Weetbix Slice
- read SMH article/watched slideshow on Tasmanian Devils – she already knew about the facial tumour disease
- lots of discussion with E about identifying emotions/low blood sugar crash and associated behaviour, etc (?)
Friday
- used our safeword to unstick B from an unproductive situation. Practiced creative negotiation strategies when playing with her sister. Helped with H when he had a shower. Watched lots of TV *rolls eyes*
- lunch (monkey platter) 12:00
- watered new transplants and pots on deck
- playing in sandpit/garden
- chatting on Club Penguin – asked me how to spell some words, and checked the spelling of some others after she’d spelled them herself
- I kicked all the squids outside when they had been horrendous for far too long, and B planted out nasturtiums for me while K pottered around being Hero Katy and H sat in his chair and kicked his feet in the grass
- Scouts 7:00-8:30