Wednesday: Went into Hville to do the F&V shopping, then realised when I got there that I’d forgotten my wallet, d’oh! Had to drive home and get it, so we had lunch before heading out again, since I’d just spent the lunch money on petrol *rolls eyes* We hung out at the park for a while, then went to the op shop, then the F&V markets and the IGA next door for the rest of the list.
Thursday and Friday: I killed my laptop (we thought) so actually had to Do Stuff In The Real World. Mr Bat worked from home both days so there was periodic Daddy time as well as the usual at-home chaos. I went into Hville to the hardware store and bought worms, and finished setting up my worm bed. Also mowed and mulched more of the front beds, and rebuilt my compost heap at the bottom of the garden. Dylan and scrogs were in town all day on Friday and came home with her bunny. Kids have been enthralled but managed not to be too loud and scary as it settled in.
Saturday and Sunday: Quiet weekend but the kids played together beautifully outside for most of the time. Trips to tip, lolly shop and Shipwright’s Point with Mr Bat.
Monday: Neither Dylan or I had a decent night’s sleep so of course the kids got up and wanted to have table time! K did some picture crosswords which I’ve had in my stash since B was her age (nostalgia) and is now using balancing scales with the counting bears. Then we headed out for HIP – much nicer in the car on the way there as Dylan sat in the back between K and D so she could arrest H’s chaos before he really got started. Then on the way home it was K being vile, for a bit of variety.
Tuesday: Mr Bat working from home again. Dylan and scroggins off to gymnastics in Kingston. Me and the smalls went to storytime at the local library, where H ricocheted around the room paying no attention at all to the woman reading, and K weirded her out by just answering “No” to the question, “Do you go to school?”, heh. We came home from that and read one of their new library books, then put on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King DVD for them. Since K really loved it, I’ve put various related books, and a CD and a DVD of the ballet on hold at the library (which reminds me – we do so many holds that Janet the librarian has now rearranged the hold shelf so that we have our own labelled family spot. And I noticed that next to it is one for another local homeschooling family. Or possibly we could rename ourselves “libraryschoolers” now, especially considering that Janet had to arrange to have the entire picture book section rotated after we read every single one on the shelves in our first six months down here). Mr Bat took a break in the afternoon and took K with him to pick up a gate I saw on freecycle, in Waterloo which is only a few minutes away.
Things K has been into recently: started wanting to do reading books again so I showed her some of the Sam books on readinglessons.com and she read the first 8. I need to take her and get her eyes tested, though, as she seems to have all kinds of trouble focusing on the screen – we have an appointment made for Thursday lunchtime for both of us. She’s also been really into her North Pole Camouflage game.
I also got the Big Bag of Lego down from the cupboard for the first time last week and all three older kids have spent hours totally absorbed in that.