We all got up around 9:30 this morning, after H decided to get up at 6am and run up and down the house demanding that somebody get him a slice of cheese. Eventually I clubbed him senseless boobed him to sleep and did manage to get enough sleep to be human.

We were a bit late getting to the craft morning, which was okay as the host was still in her PJs vacuuming the floor when we arrived. We hung out there for a couple of hours, not really doing much craft but mostly playing with the trainset, bouncing on the trampoline, and reading books. Then Dougie started getting a bit over having people in his space, plus we started getting hungry, so we went home for lunch.

After the kids had inhaled the rest of last night’s Hunza Pie, we wrote The PlanTM for the day. It’s freezing cold and has been raining most of the day, so we didn’t bother with any over-optimistic outdoors activities! So far we have crossed off “indoor cubby”, “Kitchen Science” (we did the surface tension experiment with milk, food colouring and detergent, and played with bubbles), and “playdough”, which they are doing now. I rang the sports centre to find out about sports groups for next term but the person who knows about it won’t be in until 5:30 so I will ring back