Better days

[ailbhe]

On Monday this week we nearly all went horribly wrong, but not quite. In total, three sets of bedding required washing, which is A Bit Much. The low point of the day resulted in me demanding that Linnea sit on the stairs until she was calmer. She did, mind you; either I terrified her or she felt unusually compliant.

While she was there she started reading a biography of Harriet Tubman and after a while I read some of it with her. Then she went on reading while Emer and I assembled the cold frame in the garden. All three of us did a lot of sewing, between other things, and I made Emer a sewing kit like the one I made for Linnea on Saturday night.

Today we did the cleaning (oh my GOD the kitchen was HORRIFIC) and then went out to the library; both the big girls scootered. I met a friend there and arranged to meet her and her three children on Monday. After that we went to the charity shops and failed to replace the glasses we've broken since I last charity-shopped, and popped in to Londis to buy some cakes and then visited Maria, which was lovely.

While there I tripped - I think on my lovely new trousers from Nomads Clothing, which I will shorten before I wear them again - and dropped Astrid on the floor. I landed hard myself, and hurt my knees, wrists, the heels of my hands, and my big toe on one foot (I think the one I tripped from). Apparently I kept an arm around Astrid until the last microsecond, when I put my hands out to stop myself from crushing her as I fell. She appears totally unaffected, so may have landed on the edge of a pair of canvas shoes and a cardigan rather than on the floorboards; I picked her up too quickly to have made a proper assessment. Then Maria fed me chocolate until I could stand up myself, and I moved to a sofa. We did pupil checks and looked for marks on her head and could find nothing, and she also seems fine this evening, so I think it's all ok.

I ache a bit though, and I'm really, really tired and not up to eating much. Her face receding from me - I wasn't sure I hadn't thrown her away from me as I fell, even.

But the big girls had a lovely evening at home - Linnea wrote some letters to her cousins, and I read them their library books, and they went to bed beautifully.

And Rob has taken tomorrow off work so we can go and visit his parents.

Comments

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

yow!

{{{{{ailbhe}}}}}

hope you had a lovely day today ;-)

[pauamma]

*wince*

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

How utterly terrifying for you! I'm so glad she was fine, although I bet she was nearly as scared as you were.

Also glad to hear Linnea found sitting on the stairs and reading helped her calm down.