Who’s Normal Anyway?

It’s all quiet for the time being - A and M have gone out to some stock car racing and L has just fed off to sleep and is now in bed. So I have downstairs and the computer to myself.

Yesterday was really hot again and we did M’s activities in the morning, finishing off his FIAR lapbook and talking about slavery. He also started on decimals with some sums about tenths and converting them to decimal numbers.

In the afternoon A finished work early and we spent time in the garden with our feet in the paddling pool to cool down! M read us half the first chapter of Just William aloud and I was surprised how fluently he coped with words I didn’t know he could read. He may be a bit daunted by the length of the book but it doesn’t look as though he’s going to have any trouble actually reading it.

Today it’s clouded over off and on and occasionally we’ve had bursts of strong winds and the hint of a storm but they’ve passed us by At least it’s been slightly cooler. This morning M went to the last cricket session and was going to stay for lunch and play some pairs matches in the afternoon, then there was a BBQ on afterwards. We stayed to watch the training session and were about to drive off but M looked so forlorn and lost wandering about on the cricket pitch that I went back to talk to him and he was close to tears because he said no one would let him join in and no one would be friends with him. He’s been going for the past 2 months but still doesn’t know anyone. Everyone else seems to know each other already. I feel really bad for him, he tries so hard to be friendly and join in but it must feel like he’s banging his head against a wall. So I persuaded him to come home and have lunch and then we’d play a family game of cricket in the back field. So that’s what we did.

After that we had more family time in the garden. L and M played for ages in the pool with the watering can while I did some knitting and tried not to get drenched when the hose pipe swung my way. A fixed the shed door and tidied some stuff out of the shed. Then M and I played cards for a while and A came to join us until L was getting restless and bending the cards. We came inside and A watched golf while M and I baked and L wandered. M baked some to-die-for chocolate brownies and I made half and half lasagne with some defrosted bolognaise and courgettes from the fridge/garden. The lasagne went down well.

We had a walk to the shop for a flake and had chocolate brownie sundaes for dessert. M wanted to carry L so when we got back I said he could try him in the sling. I love this photo.

And now L is bathed and asleep for the time being and the others are out so I’m going to have another coffee and relax for a bit.