Catch up
I’m typing this on A’s laptop so that I can sit upstairs and keep an eye on both M and L who are in bed, but the laptop and I often come to blows because the keyboard is awful and I tend to accidentally touch the pad and insert what I’m typing into the middle of an earlier paragraph, so fingers crossed!
I’m not keeping up with blogging daily, but I’ll try and recap the last couple of days if can remember what we did.
On Thursday A spent all day out climbing in the sunshine somewhere, then came in just before 4 to get ready for work and went straight back out again – cut it a bit fine really. It’s amazing how early in the morning he can get up after a late evening at work when he’s going to go out climbing! I can’t remember anything particularly interesting that we did at home on Thursday. M did his maths and sounding and we listened to some more schools radio on the BBC website. We read Camille and the Sunflowers together, which is a story book about Vincent Van Gogh. I bought a set of the stories about artists from Red House, having seen them at Melrose (think Merry brought them?) and at the same time I bought some art sticker books, so after reading the story we looked at the stickers and worked out which went where for a while til M lost interest.
At tea time we finished watching Carrie’s War. (I know, eating in front on the TV, terrible habit!) I videoed it ages ago and never got round to watching it. I didn’t know the story and if I had I might have left it a while, because M was a bit spooked about the skull and the house burning down, but we both enjoyed the film and we’ve had some interesting conversations following on from it.
Yesterday we had a family morning, because A went off for the weekend with the mountain rescue team at lunchtime so we were making the most of him til he went. A and M went out for a bike ride while I waited for the latest version of Real Player to finish downloading (took ages cos we haven’t got broadband) so that we could listen to Little Toe on Radio 7. L and I drove to the coffee shop where we’d arranged to meet A and M after their ride. It was drizzling slightly when they set off out, but by the time we all got to the coffee shop it was bouncing down and A and M were soaking. Had an early lunch and chatted to friends who were there and then came home again (luckily the rain had passed over by then).
In the afternoon M got on with his maths really well and we listened to Tony Robinson reading the Pied Piper of Hamelyn on schools radio – Tales from Europe. Afterwards I gave M the option of drawing a scene from the pied piper or having a go at drawing a sunflower like the ones in the story from the day before. He decided on the sunflower and went out into the garden to cut one and bring it in to draw. He chose to use oil pastels and made a good attempt at a sunflower. Later on we started a game of Monopoly and its still out on the dining room table. Then it was out to Musical Theatre.
This morning the plan was to go into town and do Tescos shopping and some bits and bobs from the other shops. I asked M to get his things ready for his dancing lesson, which is at the awkward, right in the middle of the day, time of 1.15pm. He faffed about and took a while to realise he couldn’t find his jazz shoes which he had yesterday for Musical Theatre. He searched his bedroom, went out to check if they were still in the car etc etc. Eventually I rang the dance studio and left a message to see If they were there. I’d left M fastening his last shoe while I went ahead to get L in the car because we were blocking someone in the car park, and M had just come out and left his bag sitting in the middle of the floor. I despair sometimes! Anyway, when we got to town I couldn’t park, Tesco’s car park was heaving and I had to queue to even get back out again. So I abandoned that plan and we went to Somerfield instead, which is outside the town centre and had lots of parking spaces. I didn’t manage to get birthday cards from my Grandma or for A though, so will have to go shopping again Monday morning.
We popped home with the shopping and had a quick sandwich and then drove to dancing. M hadn’t missed learning very much more of his modern or tap routines, so that was good. The class is going much faster now he’s moved up a group, but he seems to be holding his own. This afternoon M played out and also played his Star Wars PC game and I’ve sorted washing, cooked tea and fiddled a bit on the computer. Right, better pop downstairs to connect to the internet and post this!
