Well, that didn’t work. We got to HIP okay, but nobody had had much breakfast (because I was too busy doing the menu plan/shopping list and procrastinating on the puter) and were starting the get a bit fragile at Isabel’s. … Continue reading
got up 90mins before small people and started shopping list and menu plan. Decided that this week should be Africa Week so that we can give back the African cookbook. K very impressed and wanted to start cooking Right Now! … Continue reading
Friday Mr Bat worked from home, so a lot of the morning was spent repeating “No, Daddy’s NOT HERE, he’s at work, please don’t go in there…” Went to Katy’s around lunchtime for crafty, then home via the real estate … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
made a huge pot of porridge with ground almonds, butter and maple syrup for the smalls, in the hope that it would head off blood sugar issues like yesterday’s helped B set up her Fakebook page helped K dress up … Continue reading
Today mostly involved laundry, the consumption of birthday chocolate (occasionally by people other than B, which was sweet of her), laundry, tissue paper, laundry, and washing up. Later, it involved going out to dinner. Nom. Things made out of tissue … Continue reading
Today was a much calmer, nicer day. The smalls played with modelling clay (K) and playdoh (H) in the morning, and B pooted. I grudgingly got my act together and did menu plan and shopping list and got us ready … Continue reading
K played with the modelling clay, and made a model house based on Mary Poppins. H played with the playdoh because I flatly refuse to let him have the modelling clay after last time. B was on her puter, and … Continue reading
I kicked B off her puter to play with the smalls while I had my shower, and when I got out they were happily engaged in building a cubby in the back garden. I figured that a picnic might entice … Continue reading
Piked out of going to HIP because H is streaming snot and has a nasty wet cough. K lay on the floor and read Dr Seuss to herself (she wasn’t reading out loud, but later she told me very specifically … Continue reading