Alex started the day by going to the CAB to try and sort our finances out, came home slighly pi**ed off about them not totally understanding the debts we have ahead of us and then spent the best chunk of the day getting stressed and grumpy making phone-calls to lots of people who like be rude, arrogant, self righteous and like to give conflicting advice so we end up not really knowing where to turn…..and breeeeeaaaaath.
Despite previous paragraph, I have had quite a nice easy day today, it’s all to easy for me to get all worked up and flustered when we’re rushing round trying to fill the days up with supposedly interesting and educationally informative day trips, endless trips to get food in and errand running. I would love to just spend a few weeks at home, apart from the odd trip to the local shops so we don’t starve, it would be nice to just all get on with life together in some nice weather at home and in the garden. Kids would get bored too easily I fear unless said weeks are 28C all the time and the swimming pool is constantly filled!
Natalie drew a lovely picture of a tree, watched MegaMaths (which she enjoys, so she says - hope some of it is retained!) on CBBC2, managed to complete the last 6 (yes 6, but they were all too easy really) pages of MME :mrgreen: and 1 page of EME.
I’m glad I’ve chosen a different set of books for what would technically be Natalie’s Year 3 (Letts books, now moving away from DK), I think the DK books are sometimes a little too simple, (I know they’re only meant as a backup for parents to do at home with kids!) the Letts ones seem to be more in depth, hopefully more of a base curriculum, without it actually being a curriculum or us even wanting to follow a curricuclum, :???: although I have still got CiMT MEP Maths on a kind of standby - I love the look of this and would have to start Natalie off at the beginning so we don’t miss any of the concepts, I think what’s stopping me from actually putting it into place is the committment it would take, the 1hour everyday at the table to keep it going, we like being a bit free-er than that….we’ll see, it wouldn’t hurt to use it as a back-up to the Letts stuff I suppose, so we can attack Maths from a different angle.
Natalie also verbally ‘reviewed’ the stash of R’ose Impey’ library books we got a few weeks ago, she says she has read them all so many times now she is bored with them. Guess we’re off to the library tomorrow to stock up then.
Hermionie has been watching Something Special and doing lots of the actions (albeit in her own way), I spent some time playing with her in her room, emptying the toy box and discovering long-lost forgotten toys and then she was watching Animal Park. She managed to have a nap on the sofa today (I resisted the urge to join her!), we woke her up to pop to the local shops in dire need of some bacon (Mmmmmmm) for bacon & onion sandwiches - yum! (sorry to all vegetarian readers).
Natalie spent some of her birthday money on sweets and Doctor Who stickers and despite completing the all too-easy money sums this morning, failed to demonstrate this in person when she needed to give the shop-lady £1.05 and having about £1.27 in her pocket just gave the lady the lot and expected her to sort it out. Ho Hum….
I managed to sort out the toy boxes in living room. (I’ve been stuffing the toys away in them for months now, hoping the 10’s and 100’s of different bits would all band together and jump into a box and label themselves). Had to run the tumbler (twice) - us being around and in the good weather hasn’t coincided with each other lately!, Hate having to run it and feel guilty when I do, must do more recycling! Also had to add a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil to get rid of the damp-pile-of-washing-sitting-round-for-five-days smell.
Kids also played with our homemade playdoh, we had some up on eBay for a while, can’t get over how people bought it - it’s sooooo easy to make and lasts ages. (stored in an old plastic tub with airtight lid - I have had Shop-bought brand Play-doh go hard even in this!) Natalie loves making the playdoh but there’s only so much you need!
All watched Neighbours (even though Alex claims to hate it!) and the kids and I had much fun playing with the Ello that NanP picked up at the car boot on Saturday. I still want some proper lego though!
Kids have gone to bed, Alex is laptopping and eBaying, I’m blogging, reading (and actually de-lurking at long last) other’s blogs, and resisting the temptation to put a babyticker on my blog (way to soon!) and we’re watching Charmed Season 5 (borrowed all the Charmed from S, who hasn’t yet got her mitts on Season’s 6, 7 & 8 Grrrr.
so she can get a new one! - and sorting through her Doctor Who sticker albums.
) for our Tuesday visit from K for a spot of 
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she had completed 3 pages with Alex’ help and I helped with the 4th - not too much to go now - I’m sure she’ll sail through the rest.
) I don’t carry them round anymore and we could have done with them today - HA!) so I couldn’t figure out where we were but it was a lovely looking green jungly-looking-type valley in the middle of nowhere……..no words to describe, will have to photo next time.
