The rest of Thursday

I sent the kids into the library with B to supervise and ducked in to the post office to pick up our parcels and post Mum’s letter.
At the library, B read books to H and I read books to K, and to another little girl about the same age, Keira, who came over and started listening to me. K and Keira had a bit of a chance to talk to each other before Keira had to go, so maybe we’ll see her around in the future.
I borrowed all K’s holds which had arrived (ghods I lurve interlibrary loan!), and had to borrow half the books I’d picked out on my card because K’s was full, and then found that my card was full too! I think we need to work our way through some of the older ones we have and then take them back.
K’s longstitch kit arrived, so when we got home I put it on the embroidery frame for her and she started working on it. She got the hang of it pretty quickly and persevered with it on and off until bedtime. She’s pretty accurate, given her age! She told me that when it is finished she wants to send it to Nannie as a late birthday present 🙂
K had quite a large hiatus from sewing when she watched another movie. I went into the study and read half the library books to H, then he asked for the Goodies (and didn’t watch it).
I read another 30 pages of By the Shores of Silver Lake to K, who did some sewing while I read, and then Mr Bat (who had been reading library books to the Boy) sang them both songs until H was pacified unto sleep and K was happy enough to go to bed by herself.
After I was sure she was asleep, I enticed B away from her computer to spend an hour and a half beading. We looked through the jewellery-making book I borrowed from the library, and I made the clasp I liked, and she decided to just make some basic earrings. Eventually she branched out a little into some wire twisting, and made a few spirals. Must do this some more, it was lovely to spend the time with my girl 🙂

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