Weekend and Today
Can’t think of anything much to say about the last couple of days. On Saturday M went to cricket again in the morning and I read a magazine in the car while A and L went for a walk round the shops. In the afternoon we tried to go swimming in Thetford because it has a big pool and flume things but it was closed for an all day swimming gala. We went to the garden centre for a bit because it’s close and had a cuppa and bought bark chippings for the garden. When we got home we did some garden stuff and that’s about it I think.
On Sunday I went to church with the boys and A was on a scouting training course. He’s volunteered as an asst group scout leader and is going to help the other leaders in the group through their training and make sure everyone has a plan for covering the basic stuff they need to know. The course was to teach him how to sort out everyone else I think and he’s some stuff to be assessed on over the next 3 months. When he got home we went for a bit of a walk and had some tea and then it was just about time to put L and M to bed.
Today started badly when I woke to M stropping over a computer game yet again. Some of the day went OK - we finished off his ancient greeks topic apart from making the poster, did some fractions (they confuddle him each time they come up, not sure why, I think he might just need lots of repetition til the idea of it has chance to stick somewhere?) and finished off the cooking expts for his BA First Investigators silver award. He cooked eggs (fried and poached) for breakfast and described what happened and we also made mars bar cake and talked about how the ingredients changed. He had some interesting ideas about what was happening to the egg.
When L went for a nap we cuddled up on M’s bed and I read him 2 more chapters of Swallows and Amazons. I’m enjoying reading it, it’s making alot more sense now I’m an adult and I hope reading it together means it’s making sense to M. He seems to be following the story fine.
This afternoon we went out into the garden briefly, L got cold and wet and we came in again. M took his bike out to the park and then came back to play here with the lad from next door. While he was out, L and I played with the shape sorter and sang some songs and things so that he got a bit of attention of his own. While A cooked tea M and I played fractions dominoes and they were a hit (surprisingly) so that was fun to do together. At times today I have been so frustrated I’ve just screeched like a fishwife, so as well we had some nice stuff together. This evening I’ve blogged and watched the baby mind reader programme and been thankful he’s not here reading L and M’s minds - don’t think I want to know!
