today and bits and pieces

i have forgotten to blog many things, having been swept up in the sadness of my sister dying [words that i still struggle to believe, how can she have gone??], and also forgotten to check on the wellbeing o my close friends, for which i apologise. But i have to do the having fun thing for her. so today i have laughed about various things she did crazily with my girls, so that we get gradually used to our memories being about happiness and laughter. too soon for me, but right for my girls. And i have reached back out to some o the friends that have cared so much for me.

so here is some happy music we shared to get me in the mood

hear those cellos…

anyway, my girls greeted me back from canada with love, cakes and cards. my aunty m loves blackberries, i am part of a great family, one not to take for granted.

and today, well, we played with bunnies a lot, they are getting v characterful! SB did some maths and science galore park. Both did some art, having a go at the kandinsky circles that merry had done, and also looking at my new art book acquisition

which i bought from a recommendation by harmony art mom. [of sketch tuesday]. BB decided she wanted to do the rabbit pic, i sketched it out for her freehand, but that wouldn’t do, it had to be EXACTLY the same. i was feeling a bit stressy at this point anyway thinking of a couple of friends. so i scanned it in and she did the eyes and ears only!!! argh!!!! SB went off and had eyes tested and glasses [bendy ones] ordered. then swimming. I decided i needed to hide all external sources of info, so BB and i did papier mache – you can’t sneak to computer or phone with papier mache fingers! we are making a crab… we also ds-ed and snuggled watching tv.

tomorrow being another day, we are going to do some science for latinetc. all easier than i had orig planned, as i just can’t face stressing out!!