M the Padawan
Yesterday morning M looked again on the Argos website to see if the lightsaber TV game he’s been after since before Christmas was back in stock yet, because his Christmas money was burning a hole in his pocket! I noticed it was in stock for home delivery now, so we searched a bit further for a shop with it in stock. Found it in a branch near where my mum lives, so I decided to drive down and get the game and go see my mum at the same time.
A and M stayed at home (thank goodness or M would’ve been pestering to come straight home to play the game all afternoon) to get boxes down out of the loft and restack the packed boxes in the garage. L is still full of cold, so I hoped he’d sleep on the way there and back as he finds it hard to drop off easily with a blocked nose.
It was a long drive, because L couldn’t settle and just wailed and scratched at his head for ages. I finally held his hand to stop him scratching and he dropped off to sleep, but then I had to get him out of the car to go into Argos, and then into my sister’s.
Found my mum looking quite a lot better and she and my sister haven’t come to blows yet living so closely together. Got my mum together to drive to her house and find paperwork and craft things and some other bits and pieces she needed but hadn’t been able to fetch. We also went via the cash machine so she could get some money out. There are so many seemingly small things that are just impossible to do with a broken leg and no one to transport you. My sister’s home care are supposed to be giving them extra help, but they can only offer to go do shopping, which is easier to do via internet shopping than sending someone with a list (except Sainsburys will only deliver to the doorstep and neither mum nor my sis has the energy to go up and down stairs repeatedly (my sis lives in a first floor flat) carrying shopping.
On the way back from my mum’s L fell asleep in the car so I dropped my mum off and just set off for home so L would stay asleep. A had made tea ready for when we got home - bonus!
After tea M tried his lightsaber game but it was a bit of a disapointment. 
It plugs into the TV and a sensor detects the position of the light saber, except that it didn’t - it just flashed across the screen whether we moved the lightsaber or not, so we couldn’t control the game. We all had a good try at it though.
This morning we had one more try with it before we were going to take it back. M decided to dress in dark clothes to contrast with the light saber and we also played with no artificial lights on, and today it is working much better and is controllable. So M is happy, though not impressed that I wouldn’t let him play all morning.
We’ve had a few more arguments about the need to do something other than watching TV or playing on the computer, but we have also done some maths, spelling, story of the armadillos (still catching up!) and listened to the Song Tree. Now we’ve just finished lunch and I ought to go and clean the bathroom. Oh joy.
