i am def getting more unreliable at blogging, and chris appears to have completely stopped. since he does most of the home ed, and this blog is technically his, this is a problem. as a friend of mine mentioned in the past, if there is something eating up at your life, and you can’t blog about it, it makes blogging on the whole v difficult. most of my friends reading this blog will know what is mostly eating away at me, but… I am still also v much grieving for little nanny. i really miss her.
so, what have we done that i will do some blogging about?? well, my mum and dad , sis and family came up last weekend. saturday was a gently pootling about day, the kids did lots of playing together fimo and hama, my sis rested, mum and dad tidied my house a bit – bless them, i did try and persuade them not too. it is a fairly forth bridge kind of task. but thanks to them. i did lots of baking and prep for my nephews party the next day, oh and my cous ran a triathlon in london. way to go martin. we had hugs and chatted and said the needful things over glasses of wine – well no wine for me as migrainous.
m had what appeared to be a fab party. aunty m and family joined us fir the day, he got lots of ace presents, played well and watched in surprise as chris and my b-i-l went completely mental with the water… i might need to put that on a blog sometime! aunty m and family left as did sis and b-i-l. aargh!! we have 4 kids!!!
i spent most of the next day drugged to eyeballs with migraine, and tues at work till v late. but the big 2 went to barracudas, a holiday activity club, from which they came back excited on both the days, and the littlies played together and with grandparents.
wed is a home day, so i attempted to recreate the activity day for the little 2. you know, this blog is being hard to write. anyway, we started with face painting straight after brekkie, my cutie little niece had a butterfly, and my terror of a daughter had a monster… [or dragon as she insisted] therein lies all the differences between them i think!! they then had lots of fun on the swings before i brought out gluing and sticking. we made LOADS of mess!! and did loads of gluing and sticking. another craft aunty helen! well, ok then. we did painting plates with ceramic paint. both of them shew just how dreadfully 4 and 5 year olds can do it when they are racing to have decorated the most… I stopped them at 6!
we had lunch 
and i read a french book to both of them – 
and following that we did science by the way of volcanos, and then i let them mess about making potions for the rest of the afternoon, well until they got bored! then i read loads of stories, then biguns came back, disappointed because grandparents had sloped off midday, so we had a chippery dinner in front of doctor who.
the big 2 again had great times. they did loads of swimming, games, crafts, trampolining, fencing and m got to do quad biking on the fri. SB didn’t go in tht day as feeling unwell. the only thing she didn’t enjoy was dodgeball, which she didn’t do again, and she was heckled by some boys for being the only girl to choose football, and although she stood her guns that day, she didn’t repeat it. the girl/boy thing struck, as nephew only played with teh oys, and so sb only played with the girls, but they seem to have been v happy with this, and sb made up a play and a talent show for the girls to do on the last day, it is just such as shame that she went down with a lurgy and missed friday. she really did have a lurgy, as i had a minor worry it might be nerves, and she has been lurgified since with sore throat and nasty cough. anyway, voted a resounding success and desire to go again next year from both of them.
so to friday, nephew was slightly reluctant to go on own, but did so and had a great time. the plaything the littlies were booked into turned out not to be so good, and sb needed a fair bit of chilling time. when i returned from work my sis had arrived and we had take out pizza and narnia. the children were tossed into bed, we chatted some more before bed too.
sb wasn’t interested as feeling rough and snivelly – bless. they all did a bit of playing but sis keen to get off so we waved them goodbye. sb immed collapsed into a heap, so we watched ice age 2 and then went out to paint pictures that might be vaguely spaced themed. and i mean vaguely! both girls being flopping, we watched some /bang which wasn’t so successful, and then robin hood and finally numberjacks. they were parcelled off to bed as exhausted!