just another morning here

Bit of a collision of worlds today, at least I felt slightly pulled in different directions. Anna had been awarded a Thank You Certificate – something they get in school either for achievement or effort or whatever, can be anything. So anyway we went into assembly this morning for the presentation of this week’s certificates. Didn’t start well as Joe was obviously stressed out by having to go in there as a home educated kid, so he behaved like a lunatic for most of the morning in one way or another .

Assembly was great, Anna was chuffed, I am (of course) suitably proud of her even if I am still convinced she has a split personality between school and home, and I even found myself wishing that Joe was still part of school too. Really, as schools go, we couldn’t want for a nicer one, it is lovely. Oh, really I’m pleased that all three of my children are happy doing what they’re doing at the moment, but I do find it much harder work having Josiah home on his own than having all three of them around!

Came home and I cooked dinner while Joe did maths and a little bit on time signatures. Then after lunch we had a visit from the Portico, which was lovely After a while it was time to pick up the girls from school, I don’t *think* Gwenny got ‘infected’ by being on the school grounds, but only time will tell

Anna had taken her cello, piano accordian, and a whole host of other toys into school this week, because of the dubious honour of being ‘special person’ in her class, so between that and temporarily losing her scarf it took ages to get out of school again but we made it eventually! As Steve said this morning, we’re actually pleased that she likes her cello enough to want to take it into school and play it, even if it is rather awkward!

At home we just sat around drinking tea and trying to get the kids to settle down – there seemed to be an awful lot of grumbliness especially over one of Violet’s birthday presents, but after tea they all managed to go off and play for a while, leaving the adults to have coffee and a bit of a chat before it was time for them to leave, taking Anna with them for Violet’s birthday weekend.

We chilled out with a film (which I stayed awake throughout – enjoyed it) and that’s about it for today. We are trying to go to sleep but the pub at the bottom of the road has live music that we can hear from here, Steve thought someone had left the drums on in our own house it’s so loud! Anyway, gotta hit publish before midnight so that will have to do!

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