had to go into work this pm, for a critical meeting – hmm, just what i needed! managed not to cry, went to A and E to ask for more antibiotics, and howled there instead honestly, i need a holiday. this one might not do the trick though!! i am looking forward to it, and will be working hard to make it a success for the children and my sis – who btw has been feeling exceptionally rough this week [hugs for her, she rang on wed in desperation, so i mobilised gp and parents her way, and then events overtook me and i didn't get back, thankfully she is ok]. i had already bought a sufficiency of yellow moon crafts [you might remember the boxes!!], but with SB being out of action, we have added ‘a few’ more!! SB also has 3 new ds games, the waterproof thingies, and we have packed the older bigger pushchair for her, so i think we have done what we can. i have 2 huge boxes of dressings to take with me – that and craft kits etc means the car as full as when we take the tent!!

so, where are we? well BB is doing alright really at trying to be considerate. she is a gorgeous girl, and she is trying [in both senses!] SB is obviously an emotional roller coaster. we have continued on with by the clock painkillers, as i think that if we control things well, she will be hopefully less weepy. She certainly is trying to use the crutched now, and managed to not be on a lap all the time – though needed 100% presence – which we could do, though didn’t aid packing! she has played loads with the gifts from merry’s girls – so another thankyou to them! particularly the girl dressing one.

nana and grandad came over [they were going to babysit for us tonight, but after SB's accident we cancelled!] and that gave both girls a boost – particularly BB. they also bore gifts, so SB did a lot of fuzzy felt. BB did some airdrying clay stuff with nana – very proud.

so i guess that is us signing off for a bit. though chris’s parents are housesitting [well, we have good pub access!! also lots of things need watering], they are unlikely to be blogsitting!

Speaking of good pub access, they seem to have rather less good access to good bands – thank goodness for a midnight finish of high angst wailing!

today, SB finally really grasped she wouldn’t be better by the weekend. i had been gently leading her to that, but the addition of the half plaster today – which she hates thoroughly – convinced her. the fact that we had already ordered waterproof thingummies didn’t appease at all. it hurt to have her dressing changed, the plaster is hot and heavy. she is miserable ++. i was still worried at the look of the skin injury [much more of a concern than the break] but prob most is a partial thickness with 1 large and 3 small full thickness areas. i had quite a discussion with what seems to be our family orthopaedic surgeon [well, he did little nanny's hip, and i moved mum to him with her christmas factor]. he has a lovely and confident manner. so the plan is for me to dress it [ bit of a worry that] every 3 days and when we come back a reassessment wrt healing. so i am nervous that i will miss it if it starts to look infected [cos it looks truly dreadful!] but if i am worried, i guess a and e is our friend!

but yes, it looks awful, and she is on horrible antibiotics, and she feels down and waily and basically needed 100% hugs all day. this has left BB somewhat less than impressed, but TBH, she was much better about it than she could have been. [actually, should give BB quite a credit here really for taking second place without much tantrums] a combination of watching ballet shoes, finding nemo, playing games and the new ds game of zoo hospital which arrived today [she bought it] and giving analgesia [both paracetamol and ibuprofen] in max dose by the clock got us through, and i have cuddled her off to sleep.

just paranoid about healing!!

obviously we are not packed, we haven’t done anything round the house, and i am back at work tomorrow [no choice to take time off tomorrow]. hope SB ok without me [guilt of working parent]

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

thankyou to merry and girls for presents, although SB not in an investigative mood earlier, she had a good look at them this evening and is really happy and glad to have lovely friends. she was also touched by email from various HE friends – thankyou.

TBH, at the moment i am wondering what i am being punished for.

Bless her, she is really upset because on top of that we are going this weekend for our 2 week caravan holiday with my sister and children – beach, pool, ice-skating, walks etc. oh yes, she can’t do any of them. total crapness.

eearlier in the day we had a lovely time at the deep end doing science experiments and playing, but TBH, that seems decades ago.

she did like doing the karaoke version with me though.

and a bit of satchmo and ella – summertime!

for a different summertime version. i enjoy heifetz playing i think he had a really light touch with the violin – ideally suited for gershwin, as really easy to be overly indulgent with the music – singers get away with it, the violin doesn’t! He arranged a fair number of gershwin’s pieces, and was particularly good at sounding like 2 violins! a violin hero of mine – click through some of the other links!
this also helps – i believe it is also a favourite of Jax – somewhere over the rainbow

anyone else needing a chillpill and a musical rescue remedy?

Up, a bit of screen time (Pingu and Magic school bus) before getting dressed so we could go across the road to buy bread, milk and marg to have breakie with a bit of Hama beading on the side.  After breakfast SB went off without the smallest reminder and did some maths (subtracting things like £6.13 – £4.85) and piano practise – though had to be reminded a bit how to borrow when subtracting. BB moslty played with the Geomags – she is really into them at the mo, we finally need to get some more I think. That and random 3 yo games with random objects, checked on the mushrooms in the mushroom kit – does;’t like to eat them, but fascinated by growing them.

Then SB started on some more Hama-beading, with BB also doing a bit. Whilst all this was going i was assisting in various ways, and being domestic – washing up, and cleaning out the fridge, cooking chickpeas etc. Sb then moved onto finishing off her T shirt that she was decorating for Amelie (late birthday present) . finished off the design on the front. Decided to write on the back – i wrote it down on paper for her, she spaced it out ok and then finished it off by writing Birthbag instead of birthday ! – it was funny, but I tried not to laugh as she was really upset by it. Helen laughed even more when she got home which didn’t go down well. Will try to rescue it – it hasn’t been ironed to fix it yet. Helen was trying to convinve SB that Ams wouldn’t mind, SB not convinced. all the morning passed without too many arguments
They both went off and did some bits on the Starfall website until lunch was ready.

After lunch I sat down for a ‘five minutes peace’ cuppa and to write an email in my role as Merry’s tech support ;-). BB wanted to do a craft kit she found floating about – making bugs out of pom poms or some such. I said I’d do it once i’d had my tea, but then SB said she would help, so they went off to the kitchen to do it. Not sure how much BB did and how much SB, but they were both happy when I went in to see how they were doing so left them too until they stopped.

They both did some skating about for a bit at some point, so maybe that was now, then Sb helped me start to cook dinner – cutting up the Paneer and onion until H came home.

They played a Dinosaur ludo game – Sb didn’t like getting sent back it seems. Before long it was Ballet, more cooking, home from ballet, playing in the garden, feeding birds, Swimming, home to eat the curry that H finished off  – a treat of cookies that SB bought from the shop (with her own money)  when we got home. Bb to bed, while Sb and h played a game I think. Then I weeded the fruit bed, then time for coffee, chocolate and the last episode of Heroes Series 2 (a bit odd as it was cut very short by the writers strike.

and I’ve even blogged !

I’ve still got to blog my photo meme day from Friday, maybe tomorrow?

i was at work for a lot of the day [and lets gloss over that shall we!], but did get to spend the afternoon and early evening at home with the girls. Although it was yesterday, my brain a bit weak on what we did! i know there was a lot of geomagging, kids k’nex and pattern blocks. SB did an excellent violin practice. we read some books together – and did some french simple words and a lucy chat. i think she had done some maths earlier? not sure!!

Anyay, we bailed out into the garden and played in the tent, and hama beaded. i watered some of the potted veggies. ermm, i think there was more, but the day at work proved stressful, and i guess i have just got a poor memory! i do know that when i got home at nearly midnight both girls were back up again, so i went to bed with sb, and chris with bb. i do believe i would have had no sleep at all without the reassuring presence of a child.

today i have been told SB has done maths and piano. she also has hama beaded, pompom crafted and made ams a t shirt, and we promised not to blog what she wrote on the back [bless her spelling mistakes] but i believe chris alluded to it in a twitter. since that bit wasn’t ironed [fabric pen] might it come out in the wash??

BB also did her t shirt and hama-ed, and happily geomaged and k’nexed. oh, and starfalled some alphabet stuff.
when i got home we played dinosaur ludo, SB to ballet, then to swimming. me and BB just pottered and played on the swings mostly, and collapsed in front of pingu and magic school bus. i must go to bed now as shattered!!

I was at work for the morning, but got back in time to have some playing time with the deependers. the children all seemed happy playing together [well, mostly] haven’t found l’s trousers though. wonder if they are playing sardines somewhere!

we did – at BB’s request some ‘speriments. i was trying out the beginning of electricity. though both wanted to do it, they didn’t want to do it together as it were, and i guess i am not being the model of patience at the moment, but we got there, had fun – particularly with static in balloons! i think i might start to have to do lesson plans!

We moved onto violin practice with SB, her in charge of how long, and she enjoyed – got to hovis advert! lots of cuddling, did a bit of french [things in the house!] and girls watched some magic school bus. BB to bed and SB and I read the isle of immeter [in the sir cumference series, which she really enjoys]

watching heros and listening to beat of talent free band at pub across the way [with sundry woos and wails!!] . thanks for hugs.

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Off to Tots and Nots groups in the morning. Just in time for SB to take part in a French game with Katy. I sat with BB and did a picture with her made from different shapes cut out of paper. Bit of general playing and snack eating. SB did a picture as well. Drew a portrait of Helen. Gina whose does various music teaching there brought along some flutes. so they got to have a go with those. BB was interested, but didn’t want to try. SB managed to get some sound out of it without to much effort. Bit of singing of songs, then SB had her first recorders session with Gina. said she enjoyed it and wants to do some more. It should be becoming a regular thing.

By now BB was pretty grumpy – she wanted to go and watch SB playing, said she was hungry but didn’t want to eat any of the things  I had in the bag. Didn’t want to do anything I suggested etc. – probably tired (had woke me up before 5 am, though went back to sleep later) and hungry (only had eaten half a slice of toast and a modicum of yoghurt ).

Headed off home via Tesco’s for a few things – which was a bad idea – it’s a big Tesco Extra store and buying just a few things seems to involve walking miles. BB was amusing by the bakery counter. I was with SB a bit further along whilst she chose her bread, BB was sat in the trolley shouting out ‘ I want Spooky Spoon bread’ ! :-)  Spooky spoon (from the character in Numberjacks) bread being her name for a French stick – ever since we had one that was vaguely spoon shaped at the end and they kids dubbed it Spooky Spoon.

They both amused a mother at the veg bit. They were both begging me to buy a bag of Peas in their pods because they love eating them straight from the pods – but they were imported and rather expensive so I didn’t. Good to have kids who like consider buying bread and vegetables a treat though

Escaped  Tesco and got home to a late lunch of mostly Spooky spoon bread accompanied by a dose of Magic School Bus. SB did piano practice, and handwriting. BB got out her violin and played with that, couldn’t find her maths book which she wanted, so did some leap-padding. then they both got out the Geomags. BB got upset because they kept on sticking to each other and they bickered and argued over which Geomags they each had, could do with more really. I cooked some soup, which neither of the kids seem to like much – probably a tad too spicy for them. Helen came home and read some books with them – I caught one about Alexander Graham Bell.

Then off to bed.