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 to got to Huonville. Just before we left, B was trying to get H and K into the car while I got my things together, and she tried to get K to put the glob of playdoh she was holding back into the house. K had a massive tantrum which went on for about fifteen minutes of screaming and then sulking all the way to Huonville. I had already asked B if she would be happier looking after the smalls in the library rather than following me round the supermarket, but after the tanty, she didn’t want to take K, so I dropped H and her at the library and took K with me. B caught up with us before we had done half the shopping, because H hadn’t realised that I wasn’t going with them, and when he did work it out, he got upset, so B popped him in the pram and came after me. We finished the supermarket shopping and they were all much more cheerful. B wanted to take some photos of the little path by the river, so after some discussion, I dropped the two girls off at beginning of the path, and they walked home up the hill, good relations fully restored. It started raining about half an hour after they got home, so they had very handy timing, too!
When we got back, the smalls watched various DVDs and B pooted, I washed up, and H did his best to eat all the groceries. Then he crashed, so I put him to bed (with some reservations) just before 6pm. I really hope he doesn’t wake up at 5am tomorrow *eep* After dinner, K did some more of her phonics book (why does she only ever want to do it after dinner? Strange child), then I read another 30 or so pages of On the Banks of Silver Lake to her before she went to bed. B is still up (having just put away the rest of the groceries from on top of the deepfreeze in exchange for a bol of ice cream when she could lift the lid) but I am about to crash…
Oh, I need to get around to showing B this article, since as of tomorrow morning she will have one…