Lots of changes of plan this week 😕
On Tuesday we met up at Gina’s, because S was ill so they didn’t want to travel. Our plans to get lots of work done were slightly thrown by S being uncertain whether he wanted to sleep or not, but we still ticked a few boxes and the children each wrote a poem based on the pattern of Baa baa black sheep – all pretty cool actually 🙂 After a quick lunch we headed off to violin, the first lesson in three weeks thanks to half term and then two lots of illness (the first ours, the second the teacher’s). It went well, though, and a good lesson always seems to give back a bit of impetus, so I’m hoping practices will be easier for a bit. Then back here for K to get changed and then off to gymnastics with him and back here for GCSE lesson – only one student this time as the other was ill, so she got an extra value lesson (group rate, individual tuition) and work to take for her partner. Meanwhile Bob was not quite getting dinner cooked before having to rush M and J to gym and pick K up, so the boys had to snatch a snack and then eat properly later…
Wednesday was to have been a craft session at a local nature reserve, but was cancelled at short notice, so we had a morning unexpectedly free to do normals. Lots of music practice, a little maths and some serious NaNoWriMo – none of them are looking likely to meet their targets, but they’re all enjoying the process anyway so I’m not worrying; we thought we’d have more time than we ended up having. Then J and I did the primary Maths Challenge paper (I finished first – phew! but was quite impressed with how well he sat and got on with it, even if he did need reminding that the ten minutes at the end would be better used checking his work than sitting back saying he’d finished!) before lunch and Baby Music. Back home for tea and then J and M had Cubs.
Thursday was Tots, as ever, but a very quiet session this time. Gina took J, J and M off to Multisport, while the rest of us finished up with the intention of following along to take petitions for anyone at multisport who wanted to sign. Unfortunately this plan was thwarted by a vicious attack on my person which left me, I suspect, mildly concussed (I was set upon by the metal rod designed to make the high level cistern of the church toilet flush; it flung itself at me from a great height and bounced on my head en route to the floor!) and distinctly unable to drive. Susan saved the day once we’d realised that K, K, E, L, A and both adults could all fit in our car so Susan could drive us straight to Gina’s where I could lie down for a bit while Dave then drove Susan (and A, they decided, so I could have a real rest 😉 ) back for her car. Meanwhile Gina picked up the boys from sport and then I took it easy for a bit while children all watched a film and then did Geography (seashore poem) and bits of music – thank you Gina and Susan :mexicanwave:
By about 6 o’clock (having bumped at about 12:30) I thought I felt well enough to get everybody home, but actually only made it a little more than halfway, through heavy traffic and bright lights, before deciding that having to concentrate that hard was Not a Good Thing and that discretion was the better part of valour. I pulled over and phoned Bob to come out in his little car and rescue us. By the time he got there I was feeling a lot better again so he took the big car and the children while I took his small car by myself and eventually we made it home.
Today’s plans? Well, they’re completely awry already! We were to have gone to Friday Club meeting and brought Z home with us so Sarah could get some more packing done, but I warned her yesterday that I might not feel up to it. We would have been late anyway, because at short notice we had a reminder that A had a 2 1/2 year check today – just as well they phoned as I hadn’t known about it! We did make it to that, and it was fine (HV spent more time chatting about HE and how nice my children were than anything else – always good to hear 😀 – and was intrigued about En Famille and how it works, then A jumped through all the hoops with a big grin 
) but our consolation for not going to Friday Club was to have been a trip to the playground on the way home and instead we trudged back through torrential rain and had to warm ourselves up with hot chocolate when we got here, by which time it was too late either for FC or to get to the other HE group history thing which had been our alternative possibility for today. Ho hum. Actually a quiet day at home is probably just what the doctor ordered for me (or would have been had I seen a doctor) if only the children would cooperate…. Music and NaNoWriMo… not sure *I* have the energy for maths, so it may be a day of videos after that… will look out for something vaguely edutainment online I think 😉
Ouch!