a family sunday

when we are feeling pulled this way and that, with gcse work and family and work commitments, it is good to take a day out to just be together and engage with each other in a non-expectant way.

So SB did start off with a geog paper [where she got a prob B] and BB started on roblox and skyping with a friend O from the minecraft homeed server. they were chatting and playing for several hours together very happily. SB finishing the geog paper was the signal for computers to stop.

BB happily played with her legos around us. she has made a capture room with a hypnotic cell as part of the inside of the death star from star wars, and also the gym where the clone stormtroopers keep in shape. She was finally looking in all the lego boxes for pieces she needed, rather than being fixed to making the structures in boxes I guess she is now a master builder I also love how she talks as she goes, drawing you into her story.

SB and I were doing some more of her butterick sewing pattern. i started this with a bit of trepidation, since i have only really done kentwell sewing, not following a pattern! I stuck some questions up on social media and was overwhelmed with help . it is, luckilly, a simple pattern, and sb and i got on fine so we are at stage 7 currently

After we had got to step 7, we called a halt for now, and went on to finish our painting. Some while ago SB and I started some trees, as it is good to do creative things on a regular basis to exercise those parts of the brain that might otherwise become cobwebby. We finished them today. They look much better with the tree added onto the background . we are both very pleased with them

BB had done something different from the start with art, and so had no background to ‘tree’ but instead did a pencil drawing of London, including the gherkin as an architectural reference [ok she said a spottable building]

SB and I finished the active part of the day with playing a game of ticket to ride – which she won though i have to say that I won alchemists last night against her, which is quite uncommon! We have then chilled out watching city of bones. Not BB, she has been minecrafting . But we have spent a lovely alongside day