Friday
K played an imaginative game where she was acting out the Moon Maiden from The Little White Horse. Decided she wanted to draw a map of the world but didn’t know where to start, so I suggested she ask Mr Bat to print one out. H played with Duplo. K got very interested in her map so we looked on Google and she asked me to name lots of different countries, then we thought about all our far-flung family members and looked up where they live, and then we started looking up placenames from books we’ve read, like Green Smoke.
Mr Bat took them off to Kingston or elsewhere to do some Supa-Seekrit Shopping. I pootled about at home, then went up to Franklin and treated myself to lunch at Petty Sessions, and went on to Huonville and went to Vinnies.
K and H, at various times, played with the blocks and the animals as well as the Duplo, so we tidied all that up before bed (trying to make this into a habit every night). K also got interested in sorting through the cards for the World Families game (terribly Eurocentric with ONE family for the whole of Africa, but European countries as small as Scotland and Switzerland represented *rolls eyes*), so we might have to actually play it one day… The kids and Mr Bat went out prospecting for kindling with the torch while I got dinner on. After dinner K and I finished reading The Little White Horse. She’s very eager to choose a new read-aloud but all our chapter books are in boxes. May have to peruse the library catalogue and put something on hold…
Thursday
Was our post office and library day. In the morning I assembled a package for Kris and family, and K made a card for Fern and dictated a letter. Then she made a card for Lucy, back in Canberra, which we have not sent yet because the glue was not dry when we left. I had to print out a new copy of my BOS letter and actually sign it this time *blush* We dropped our books off at Geeveston Library and I picked up my holds, then read books to the kids and helped K choose another pile to borrow. We left when H started getting restless, and went across to the PO to send the mail. I couldn’t actually FIND our post office box, since apparently they don’t believe in arranging them in numerical order or anything. After we’d sent our mail off, we went down the street and checked out the second-hand shop, which was closed (opening hours 10-3), and spent 50c at the lolly shop before going home. I hid in my room for an hour or so and made another spiral dangle while Mr Bat and the babies made a cake. In the evening K and I read the penultimate installment of The Little White Horse. After they were in bed, I sorted beads and started thinking about a bracelet theme.
Wednesday
We went to Cygnet to get out of Mr Bat’s way for a few hours. I drove around for a while to get the lie of the land, then we went into the village and went to the op shop. K and H played with some toys and I found some books and clothes. Then we bought some bread rolls and more veges and some dolmades to round off our picnic, and went and sat in the park and stuffed ourselves. We checked out real estate office windows and then drove home, but H went to sleep in the car, so we ended up going home via Scotts Rd and Esperance Coast Rd and the Huon Hwy up from Dover so I could check out some more real estate prospects while he slept.
Read The Little White Horse to K in the evening, then when the squids were in bed, got out my beading supplies and made a green spiral dangle.