B had another email exchange with her penpal this morning, and sent her a picture of Smoko (what else). I asked for breadmaking advice on one of my forums, and experimented with adding less water to the usual recipe. The loaf turned out to be very dense but not sunken, so somewhere between that point (~325mL) and the usual 415mL will probably work.

The girls had a dentist appointment at 10:30 this morning (so I missed the JB meet, boo hiss). We were running late, as usual, so I dropped B off outside the dental rooms, and when I’d found a park and unloaded the younger two, she was already in with the dentist. K had her check up as well, and apparently they have beautiful teeth and are very polite and good at sitting quietly in the chair, which is probably because they are homeschooled so aren’t picking up bad habits from all the other kids. That dentist is a funny old stick at times. The girls were each given a voucher (“bravery certificate” – puke) for MacDonalds, but B accidentally got two, and – although she herself suggested it the first time – got very upset when I told her to save them for her lunches on Mondays so that I wouldn’t have to give her any money on those days. Amazingly we managed to sort it out without coming to blows or kicking her out of the car to walk home, I must be on the upside of my being-a-complete-bitch cycle at the moment 😉

We paid a quick trip to the op shop in the same centre, and then came home a bit less than an hour before Nannie was coming to pick them up for swimming. B had lunch, hunted up all her books and got upset because she couldn’t find one (which apparently was everybody’s fault but hers), then sat down to do some more crocodile research on my computer. K watched another Play School episode, then we got everybody fed and ready for swimming.

While they were out, I mowed the carpet and cleaned the living room again, then started sorting laundry, then H decided he had to go to sleep on my knee. Unfortunately he woke up when I tried to transfer him to bed, and whinged for the next half hour, which was a bit hard to take. K came home very tired and whingy too, and is watching the afternoon Play School episode, while H is pootling about under B’s desk in the playroom. B has headed off to the farm, and will be back tomorrow afternoon.