just another morning here

We’ve generally had a good week here; all apart from Josiah who has been perfecting the art of the silent refusal strop. Which, after a week of dealing with it over practically everything we’ve asked him to do, we’ve concluded is just as bad as the noisy, screaming, shouting, kicking, throwing yourself on the floor strops that the girls were (and sometimes still are!) masters of.

He’s stropped about going to school, going to swimming, going to violin, doing his violin practice, going to bed, which *way* to walk to school, being allowed to walk down the road with a coat over his face (he wasn’t, and he thought he ought to be!), which pants to wear, which shoes to wear … you name it, he’s stropped over it. Which at least makes you think it’s a general phase-type-thing rather than a specific problem he has in any one area! Anyway, the less said about that the better, as otherwise it’s been a good week.

On Wednesday I ended up working on some website admin in the morning; teaching people how to use WordPress, so that amused me In the afternoon I had the pleasure of looking after my niece Robyn … this is something that may become more of a regular occurence, and I’m quite pleased about it. Apart from racking my brains as to what exactly I used to do with just one 15mo (it’s a long time ago, okay?! ) it was great … I got all nostalgic over a couple of Abbie’s old board books and generally had fun pottering around with a toddler in tow. And then I got to hand her back! Perfect!!

The children had piano/recorder/violin/Stage by Stage after school, manic as usual. Steve was on the violin run though, and I had my friend Becca over for tea and chatting afterwards which was really lovely.

Anna has been offered a place at the Stage studios dance school for ballet so she came home pleased about that. She’s going to have to stop swimming lessons in order for us to manage it both time and moneywise, but she seems to be okay about that. She can swim well enough now to stand a good chance of getting herself out of trouble should some terrible water-related accident happen; she can certainly swim well enough to enjoy all sorts of water sports etc., so we feel as though it’s not a bad time to stop the formal lessons as she would rather put the time and effort into the dancing stuff. It will be interesting to see how she gets on, after rather a long break from ballet lessons.

Yesterday I was mainly at home, did a few housework jobs and then spent most of the rest of the day chatting to various friends online. As you do And it was a fantastic day in Animal Crossing yesterday, as one of my wifi friends had fabulous turnip prices in her town, so I made over 3 million bells on the stalk market. Woo hoo! Oh, and we tried out the new Wagamama in town at lunchtime, which was great, liked it a lot Although I must practice with chopsticks – I stupidly ordered one of the soup/noodle dishes and then had trouble eating it! Tasted great but I felt very clumsy and messy while I was eating! Swimming run was long and tedious as usual, so I must admit I’ll be glad to make some changes there for next term.

And today is mainly a day at work, although I’m popping into town first thing … and then at some point I must find time to pack a bag as I’m taking Abbie & Joe with me to visit Merry et al for the weekend – it’s a non-pupil day on Monday so we have an extra day this weekend. We’re really looking forward to that Meanwhile Steve & Anna are staying here as Anna has a concert and an audition to go to.

So that’s us up to date I think … not much more to add. Oh, apart from that my brain is now old, tired, and 32! I had a bad day, okay?!

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