just another morning here

Well. I don’t think I can keep up the twittering … as I said in a comment in the post below, the obsessive side of me just can’t bear my last twitter to be out of date so then I compulsively have to update it, which is just stupid. I don’t need it as a form of communication, although I can see its uses … and I will probably keep it going on a random basis. Maybe. If more people were on it it would be nicer though – I am the sort of strange person who likes getting texts about what her friends are doing. Makes me feel as though I have a social life!

Having said that, twitter did keep me amused today, when otherwise I might have gone stir crazy. Josiah is suffering from ‘my sisters have just gone back to school’ syndrome, he misses them and doesn’t really know what to do with himself without them around. He then relies on me for entertainment, yet of course doesn’t want to do any of the things I suggest. So today has been particularly hard work. I think I suffer from the same syndrome, if I’m honest. I know I shouldn’t but I do find it boring to be at home with one child, especially compared to what feels like the norm of having 3 (and often more!) kids around. Not quite sure what the answer to that one is!

Over the past couple of days we have done a bit of maths, through Trilemma (mental maths game) and some workbook – which did spin off into a weighing session where we weighed things from tubes of toothpaste to all the apples in the fruit bowl. Went to Sainsbury’s and bought ourselves a new mixer (ours blew up about 18months ago and cakes have been hard work ever since!), so when we got home Joe made a chocolate cake.

We’ve done some music, the usual practices as well as a supposed piano lesson but I am going to delegate that to Laura (the girls’ piano teacher) asap because somehow I think it will work better. And we went to the library; Josiah read a few picture books while we were there, then chose a Star Wars comic strip book but refused to bring anything else home.

This afternoon we played with the MGears set and Joe made a stunt plane which took him ages, but even that felt like hard work … following that with the usual Wednesday music lessons … I needed that quick drink at La Tasca in the middle of it all!

I have sent them all to bed with DSs and told them to talk to one another on Pictochat if they need to talk, as I am off duty and need some peace and quiet. Looking forward to the Apprentice tonight and then must think of something cheap to do to get me/us out of the house tomorrow.

Oh, and Anna brought home the absence authorisation from school for our Kessingland week, so we’re officially allowed to come!

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