B and I finished reading Book One of Deltora Quest last night, but I passed on starting Book Two tonight. We had some mama-daughter bonding time nit-picking instead (fortunately it turns out that she does not, in fact, have another … Continue reading
B and I finished reading Wintersmith tonight. She was very pleased that we have finally gotten through the book, and is already plotting our next read-aloud. Having gone to see The Golden Compass with her riding camp last week and … Continue reading
The forecast for the rest of this week is for unpleasantly hot rising to stupidly hot. Bugger. I guess summer had to start sometime… I need to think of things to do with the younger munchkins so that I’m less … Continue reading
I have been finding things a bit hard to cope with the last few days, but today seems to be getting off to a better start! I was putting the Boy Wonder back down for his morning nap for the … Continue reading
B and I had a lovely evening out together (with H, of course) at Carols by Candlelight. As an actual carolling opportunity it was a bust: it was freezing cold and windy, we were far from warmly dressed and had … Continue reading
Today was less successful, as I realised by mid-afternoon that I have come down with a head cold (presumably the one which has K streaming banners of snot, yet again) and the pain in my head was not solely related … Continue reading
This week in brief. Monday:Nannie dropped B home after pottery. K, H and I went to playgroup. I finally got H and K down for simultaneous naps and asked B to do some reading with me. B did 90% complaining … Continue reading
We didn’t get as much accomplished today as I might have hoped, but it was still a nice day. B went off with Nannie at 11 to look at a horse Nannie is contemplating buying for her. As she was … Continue reading
Yesterday Mum took B and K to the zoo, then dropped off both girls in the afternoon. I put K down for a nap as she was exhausted, so B and I spent some time together with the book of … Continue reading
Today K was inspired by Play School to want to be a doctor, so we knocked up a doctor’s costume for her. It was less aesthetically pleasing than the pirate’s costume I created for her the other day, but she … Continue reading