just another morning here

Well, after the very yummy gammon in coca cola last night, I had a diabolical violin lesson with Joe, where he sat and stubbornly refused to do anything for 25 minutes mainly because of a misunderstanding over dried apricots Steve and I have therefore decided to let Joe have a little holiday from tv/video games, just until next week’s violin lesson … because throwing a strop about dried apricots while you are supposed to be having a violin lesson really isn’t very clever, or respectful to your teacher, let alone any other issues I could care to raise.

Ah well – thankfully each day starts again new with no mistakes in it (even if you do have to put up with the consequences of yesterday’s ), and today has been nice … especially first thing this morning. I actually can’t believe the amount of difference it makes to have one child less to get ready for school. Anna and Abbie both managed to be up, dressed, breakfasted and music practiced in plenty of time. Hats and scarves were rooted out this morning, it’s suddenly got much colder here – and it was lovely to say goodbye to them peacefully and wave them happily on their way (am I ever glad we live so close to school!).

Joe chose some Usborne sticker maths pages to do (mainly addition and subtraction practice), played his violin for a bit, and read me a Kipper book beautifully, and we talked about exclamation marks, question marks, and full stops, and the difference they make to how we read things.

Popped into town after that as I had a list of errands to run/things to get, all of which we managed successfully, so we treated ourselves to lunch in town before getting the bus home again.

Josiah dug out a Snakes and Ladders game which he was setting up while I cleaned the kitchen floor, and found 6 dice while he was at it, so he told me what the highest score you could get with 1/2/3 dice each would be, etc. So we talked about the 6 times table generally – I’m trying to get him to see the relationships between a number and its factors, and I think he was just about getting there by the end. Anyway I quite like Snakes and Ladders apart from that awful bit at the end when you can’t quite throw the right number to finish, and then you always find yourself sliding down the longest snake and making the game take twice as long …

The girls arrived home in record time today, and then we had a houseful of people as various friends came to chat/play before tea – chucked them all out in time for a quick tea before taking Anna to her ballet lesson.

Highlight of my day was the evening – I’ve felt pretty rough with a sore throat/cold this week which today turned into a streaming nose (very pleasant) so I didn’t really feel like going out but I’d planned the evening and invited friends so I made the effort and even put on makeup to try and make myself at least look if not feel slightly more human! It worked (as well as could be expected ), and we had a lovely evening at our Picture House cinema, where we went just for drinks in the bar and to listen to some friends of ours who were playing at the jazz night there. Decided not to watch a film but to stick around for the second set by another band (trio of double bass, acoustic guitar, and fabulous vocal), and they were stunning so we really enjoyed that. Got to see friends and catch up as well, and we were still home by just gone 10pm, so all in all a good evening!

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 23:42 and is filed under general, maths, music, reading. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.