just another morning here

This week has been spent at a leisurely pace, with the children doing different things on different days. They each had an activity day at the Sports Centre; Josiah did football, Anna did trampolining, and Abbie did tennis/archery. These all seemed to go down really well, and it was quite nice to be without a different child on the days they were out, too!

At home there has been plenty of reading, some Wii playing, board games, lots of music (both practice and also murdering of various songs from musicals – but Anna is getting the hang of playing using guitar chords and melody line as a basis so I shouldn’t complain as I’ve been trying to teach her a bit more improvisation recently, not that I’m particularly good at it – she will soon outstrip me on that front too I’m sure), colouring and drawing, baking, seeing friends (mine not theirs, for once!) and plenty of other nice things too.

Weather has been rubbish for most of the week; on the worst night Anna was sleeping over at a friend’s house in a tent! Have managed to get most of the pre-holiday washing done though.

Steve has been working hard, and our evenings have been full too, with poker, miscarriage support group, some geocaching, etc. I’ve been trying to get the house sorted before we go on holiday, too – I always regret letting people stay here while we’re away, but then I forget not to do it again! I jest – it’s a bit of extra work but it’s good really!

We’re almost ready, the last few bits will get done tomorrow night after we’ve packed everything up. Still just hoping that the bike/trailer combination will work out ok, we haven’t had time to test it so it’s a case of ‘fingers crossed’, and if it doesn’t work we’ll just take the kids’ bikes. Not really sure why we are taking bikes at all, there is no way we’ll be keeping up with the cycle-riding pace of the Adamses! Still, we have a couple of weeks on our own after our time with them, and we’re looking forward to some good family bike rides

After Joe’s violin lesson today I can confirm music exam results this term: Anna passed Grade 3 piano with merit (125), Abbie passed Grade 2 piano (113), and Josiah passed Grade 2 violin with merit (124). Abbie and Anna both chose things from the Fat Face sale as rewards for their effort, and Joe got some Ben 10 toys. The mini-contest between them about who got the most marks for sight reading was won by Anna, but Josiah scored higher than her in other areas!

Everyone apart from me has had pre-holiday haircuts, if I cared enough I’d feel left out … but I don’t Now just bimbling around at home – I’m cleaning and starting to pack while they, of course, are making more mess Popping over to Steve’s parents’ house later to deliver birthday presents so that will be nice.

And then holiday! We’re off very early on Sunday morning for almost three weeks so unless I find some internet in France, this will be the last post until the end of the month! Hope all those going to J&Js have a good weekend, one year we will get there too!

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