This tune reminds me that there is a Peter Blake exhibition on at nearby Pallant House - we must pop in.
Finishing off the day in a life from earlier post inspired by Sandra Dodd's shift pattern link.
I've copied it over save you scrolling back.
6:14am E wakes up, play Wii with me. Table tennis and bowling. Talk about numbers and scores He eats some chicken breast for breakfast. I played the Wii too and got a strike on bowling! Go Me!
7:30am He tried to wake his siblings, They were up til past ten pm and I suggest they might like a lie-in. He gets mad.
8:00am He has succeeded in waking his sister who is now playing the Wii
8:30am S gets dressed. She stands in front of the full lenght mirror imagining she is a cave girl, Roman slave, Roman in a stolla, Egyptian, asks which is first Tudors or Middle Ages then imagines watching our house being built in Edwardian times and being an evacuee in the second world war all whilst I am drying my hair. O's turn at the mirror and he does ninja and karate moves for ages.
9:00am I take E for a walk to the bakers, he starts off complaining and being pretty aggressive but calms down and asks me about how the village looked when I was a child
10:00am We leave G & G's
11:00am Play at park in Pirbright
12:00 noon Tour Of Shalford Mill
1:00pm Newlands Corner
3:00pm Home and hungry - I'll be in the kitchen til around six doing tonight's supper and tomorrow's lunches.
Part Two
Well 3pm turned to 7pm via much cooking, O leaving his cars out in the rain and me collecting them up, E taking all of the cushions off the sofa to build a den, no wonder we go out so much, the cycle of picking up is endless! No room escapes as printouts carpet the room where the printer lives! O does a massive poo that leaks out of his nappy so I figure he might as well have a bath then E decides to jump in with him. In and amongst all of this S watches a film, Enchanted, I make a few calls and find someone can come and clear the gutters on Saturday morning and when TDO arrives home I quickly whizz out and buy a few bits I'd hoped to pick from the allotment but can't because the rain is coming down diagonally.
We don't have any rules about eating the same so S had a pea risotto and the boys had breaded chicken breasts for supper whilst TDO and I had fish finger sandwiches with garlic mushrooms and loads of salad followed by nectarine crumble with blackcurrant coulis and ice-cream. Somewhere in all that I made egg sandwiches and fruit salads for tomorrow for lunches. Half made banana muffins too but didn't get to finish them, they can go in after the breakfast jacket potatoes in the morning.
7pm E was shattered and asked to go to bed - TDO read him a Dinosaur Cove and he fell asleep around 7:30pm
I thought O was tired too but he wasn't so, after 40 minutes of lying down with me, he and S played on making cards and things. I am trying to only feed O at bedtimes now. He is 3 1/4, S self weaned when she was about 3 1/2 I think and it is nice to reconnect and snuggle at the end of the day knowing it won't be forever this way.
8:30pm It has stopped raining enough for TDO to go over to the allotment and water the tomatoes. they missed out yesterday as we were away.
9pm O finally falls asleep.
9:30pm S is awake in her room reading. Most days she reads around 3 books.
I might have to hit the bed soon though knowing it will be 6am tomorrow when the wheel spins round again. That's what home education and life learning looks like in our family at the moment. It works well for S and E to have individual adult time in the early morning and late evening. This post also explains why I look confused when members of the General Public ask me if I make them sit a desk!
Then remember I promised to look out some new audio books, hopefully Super heroes, for us to have in the car to listen to on our gallivants. We love audio books but are getting a little bored of the current selection. Hard to find things to appeal to 3, 5 and 7. And I remember we said we would look up this sculpture of a girl reading a book we saw today and it turns out it is a water fountain - If I pop in and tell S I'll most likely be reading too :-)
No comments:
Post a Comment