just another morning here

Think everyone had a good day today … started off with some van ed (ie workbooks in the van) while we had a quick meeting at work.

Abbie finished her Monster Maths book this morning (age 7 – 8 one), so she was pleased about that … she did get Anna to do the writing for her though, the cheeky monkey. Anna did half a page on bar charts and then avoided the other half of the page which was on fractions/percentages. Josiah came into the office and played on Education City where he was happily completing Y2 maths and english activities at an average of 70% success, not bad, I thought. He can’t do all the calculation side of things but most other things he can manage. He then went on to the Y4 electronics activities, and was happily completing circuits (that electronics kit obviously has taught him something!) 100% successfully!

This was all before going into town for Nanny McPhee. That was enjoyable enough – completely predictable yet still watchable ‘Mary Poppins meets The Sound of Music, in the style of A Series of Unfortunate Events’, and there you have it. Colin Firth does do a good line in pathetic ‘can’t look after myself’ male characters, doesn’t he? Still, it was an entertaining way to spend a morning, and it was free

I went back to work afterwards; Steve took the kids home for lunch and then swimming lessons/pumpkin carving at Crealy this afternoon. I got bored so went and bought a Tassimo machine for the office (in the hope that offering customers a coffee will make them sit in the office long enough for us to sell them a car, beware of car salespeople bearing coffee ) and we faffed around moving the office furniture around a bit to fit it in.

Later in the afternoon I went over to Steve’s parents’ house and finished off the sewing with Steve’s mum. Emma (Steve’s sister) and Robyn (our 6 month old niece) are staying at the moment too so plenty of Auntie duty for me today, which I do love – Robyn is gorgeous but I get to hand her back for the yucky feeding/changing parts I’m babysitting for her tomorrow night as well

This evening I went out to a governors’ meeting before Steve and the kids were even home. [note to Ruth & Roger - I left the ear stuff outside the door this morning as arranged, one of the kids took it in again at lunchtime despite me having told Steve why it was there sorry - will drop it round tomorrow] . Have finally managed to extricate myself from governor status – I’m staying until Christmas so the December meeting will be my last one – after four years it’s about time really!

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