I stayed out rather later than I should have done on Thursday, which meant Friday found me tired and not in the mood to deal with distracted children. We decided to declare it officially a Saturday and the children all agreed that they would do weekday things on Saturday instead 😉 We were going out to see friends anyway, so it worked well as a Saturday; we started with a trip to see Susan, where the children spent lots of time on the trampoline and Susan and I talked chickens 🙂
Then we went on to Gina’s, a bit later than planned so only in time for a leisurely lunch rather than box ticking and then lunch, then went on with them to a farm where we were meeting up with a friend of Gina’s for a tour and a meet the animals session 😀 A for some reason decided she was terrified of everything 🙄 so spent the whole time either trying to climb up my back or clinging to my front (good job I’d taken a MT) but the others all had a lovely time petting sheep, pigs and cows, admiring horses, watching bees (and looking at unspun honey on the comb) and chatting to chickens. I think the ferrets were the highlight though – which reminds me that I still haven’t looked up ferret in French for M – he didn’t know what they were and I didn’t know what they were in French… Okay, apparently it’s le furet…
We came home via Waitrose and lots of special offer Seeds of Change pasta sauce 😉 (it’s so nice to see a shocking total suddenly drop at the end when they apply the special offers 😆 ) then had chip shop chips for tea, with fish for M and home-cooked veggie sausages for us. M’s music has arrived now and although he was reluctant to start his piano practice once he got going the negotiated 10 minutes soon turned into nearly an hour 🙂
Today the weekday plans were thwarted somewhat by it being the first day of a new music school just down the road, so Bob took the older 4 to that and they came back full of what a fantastic time they had had doing choir and music games 🙂 I stayed at home with A, since she was sick last night; everything now seems fine, but I’d rather not give anyone anything nasty if we can help it. We did Humpty Dumpty lots of times, with her trying different ways of falling off my lap, then she sat down carefully, arranged her skirts, patted her lap and told me it was my turn 😆
After that it was a pottering kind of day, with lots of music to top up the music they had already done and a few normals when we could squeeze them in. Everything stopped for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on the TV, though, and we watched it whilst peeling and chopping apples to stew and preparing fresh corn cobs for teas. A slept through most of it (which might explain why she is now running round trying to get Bob or me to play with her) but woke up in time to eat a whole corn cob and then assemble her own sushi for tea. I suspect that the giant sushi rolls this lot make are a far cry from the delicate little shapes you’re supposed to serve, but at least they enjoy doing it 😉
