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ailbheRob left at an ungodly hour for a bus to the airport before 6am.
I got up, dressed, washed myself, cleaned blue paint from the bathroom surfaces with PVC cleaner, gave everyone breakfast, did laundry (today's total: 3 loads of wet bedding, 1 of nappies which hadn't washed clean overnight, 1 of household cleaning cloths, 1 of towels), filled, ran and emptied the dishwasher, had a quick cleanup in the kitchen. I also got everyone washed, hair brushed and dressed. And I remade the upper bunkbed, which is always a barrel of laughs.
Then we had a visitor who read Lentil to the children and we made charcoal from matchsticks and the children and the visitor drew with it, and then we looked at musical notes (thanks Lucy!) and Linnea played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and I think began to grasp how that works. We also sang "She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes," which appeals hugely to the children.
I cooked French toast for lunch with the visitor's help and we had that with chocolate and cream and honey and raspberry conserve, and cleared up afterwards. Then they watched Kiki's Delivery Service and I did a smidge more cleaning in the kitchen and sorting of laundry and prepped dinner from the base Rob left for a sausage and bean casserole. I gave the extra cows' milk to a neighbour and sent Rob an SMS to let him know I couldn't get a reliable net connection to cancel the milk. Oh, and I phoned the credit card people and paid most of the bill over the phone; without a net connection I couldn't move money around to pay it all at once, but I SMSed Rob and he was able to sort that out. It will all be paid, anyway.
After dinner the children had a huge row over who was going to do "homework," ie workbooks, and ended up sitting in separate rooms doing them. Linnea did handwriting practice and I have no idea what Emer did but it used every workbook she owns, and thanks to her grandmother that's an awful lot of them! She also refused to pick them up from the floor, but that's ok.
Rob phoned during postprandial clearup - I was changing a nappy and every stitch Astrid was wearing from the skin out - so Linnea bravely answered the phone. We all spoke to him.
I read them about 20 pages of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, put the nappy laundry on, read a couple of other books, and they went to bed. Emer's gums bled while I brushed her teeth, which is a bit scary. They went to bed. I came here and wrote this. Astrid is awake again.
I got up, dressed, washed myself, cleaned blue paint from the bathroom surfaces with PVC cleaner, gave everyone breakfast, did laundry (today's total: 3 loads of wet bedding, 1 of nappies which hadn't washed clean overnight, 1 of household cleaning cloths, 1 of towels), filled, ran and emptied the dishwasher, had a quick cleanup in the kitchen. I also got everyone washed, hair brushed and dressed. And I remade the upper bunkbed, which is always a barrel of laughs.
Then we had a visitor who read Lentil to the children and we made charcoal from matchsticks and the children and the visitor drew with it, and then we looked at musical notes (thanks Lucy!) and Linnea played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and I think began to grasp how that works. We also sang "She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes," which appeals hugely to the children.
I cooked French toast for lunch with the visitor's help and we had that with chocolate and cream and honey and raspberry conserve, and cleared up afterwards. Then they watched Kiki's Delivery Service and I did a smidge more cleaning in the kitchen and sorting of laundry and prepped dinner from the base Rob left for a sausage and bean casserole. I gave the extra cows' milk to a neighbour and sent Rob an SMS to let him know I couldn't get a reliable net connection to cancel the milk. Oh, and I phoned the credit card people and paid most of the bill over the phone; without a net connection I couldn't move money around to pay it all at once, but I SMSed Rob and he was able to sort that out. It will all be paid, anyway.
After dinner the children had a huge row over who was going to do "homework," ie workbooks, and ended up sitting in separate rooms doing them. Linnea did handwriting practice and I have no idea what Emer did but it used every workbook she owns, and thanks to her grandmother that's an awful lot of them! She also refused to pick them up from the floor, but that's ok.
Rob phoned during postprandial clearup - I was changing a nappy and every stitch Astrid was wearing from the skin out - so Linnea bravely answered the phone. We all spoke to him.
I read them about 20 pages of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, put the nappy laundry on, read a couple of other books, and they went to bed. Emer's gums bled while I brushed her teeth, which is a bit scary. They went to bed. I came here and wrote this. Astrid is awake again.