It should have been entirely daddybeans day, and so his blog. However, someone asked me the ‘wrong’ question and i just sobbed at work and so with permission bailed out of the afternoon as could do from home.
The girls had a bath in the morning, and when i came home they were baking BB’s birthday cake – she is having a marblecake with a tiger decoration [daddybean doing currently]. SB did a good piano prac and we did story of the world 3, whilst sorting out work stuff with the other half of my brain 
. SHe is very happy to have done 35 things on her sheet this week, predom as she wanted to have the whole weekend to play with cousins. Unfortunately, those cousins are now not coming due to chicken pox 
grr to chickenpox. However, she has chosen a good balance of things, said it didn’t feel like working too hard – grin – and was happy.
We then did some Xmas stuff preparation, and the girls made their secret santa things, now we have to see if they actually work… [then i will make mine - 
] SOme tidying with assorted screeches, and I wasn’t v sympathetic as have spent the rest of the day rather too close to tears or in tears. We finished happily enough tho, playing the card game Dingo and watching Merlin before a rousting bedtime. BB is v excited…