Which is what we have had here this weekend – well pirate singular I guess really.
We of course have been ‘Rained on‘ – (sorry, or should that be Raine-ed?)) with a visit from Home Ed friends Barbara and the kids – sadly Chris wasn’t able to come as well. It was a lovely visit, Stringbean already had herself and Butterbean prepared, she insisted on the BB outfit 
Her and E spent pretty much all weekend in the Princess outfits, they just swopped outfits the second day for a change. B spent most of his time in the pirate outfit. They all played beautifully, hardly any contretemps, much of the time we didn’t see them as they were playing upstairs, with those endlessly convoluted and ever changing kids games. SB did get sulk once because the others ‘were being horrible to her’ – or some such. It transpired that they weren’t doing what they were told I did wonder how B would get on, but he was great and he and SB had good fun playing together. When we’ve been away together with them at HE camps they’ve not played together much as B has been off playing with other boys a lot, so it was nice to see them getting on so well. So apart from coming down to eat, read the odd book
or play the odd game,
Or just prance about,
that was their weekend really, and a good time was had by all. There was even a bit of education when they used the stethoscope to listen to their heartbeats
Meanwhile R and BB did some bonding , it was so cute to see them playing together.
R showed great ability in the food scavenging stakes, appearing with oranges, apples etc. that she found in the fruit bowl, or just wandering into the kitchen to blag some more food with a hopeful look she is very much at the ‘Cheeky chimp’ stage. So her and BB did the toddler poddle about to great effect.
And the grownups sat and drank tea/coffee/wine as appropriate and chatted about HE and this and that, and that was about it. Barbara drooled over our Story of the World books. We would probably have gone out some where for bit today, but Helen wasn’t feeling up to much with a migraine, so we didn’t. And that was all jolly nice as well. The nice grown up evening in the sitting room, sans child clutter with wine and a nice log fire was a little spolit by BB waking up after 1/2 hour asleeep in bed and not wanting to go back to sleep until we went to bed. She did then sleep all night though.
It was lovely to have them stay, and everyone (adult and child) pretty much ate whatever they were offered, so that was probably a first as well
Suppose I’d better go to bed before BB decides to wake up….
