Oh, I'm halfway there

I'll make it if I swear.

Anyway, we stayed up until 1 am cleaning up teeny weeny fragments of broken glass. Naturally the thing smashed in the front room where all the toys and baby stuff is, and what's more, it smashed before we tidied them away, so we hoovered all the toys and blankets and whathaveyou as well as the floor and furnishings. So then Rob was late to work this morning and when I got up I had a mass of clearing to do in the dining room, kitchen and bathroom. I got the bathroom sorted and the children more or less dressed, and a load of laundry hung, and the dishwasher filled, and was partway through clearing the dining room floor when the first BfN person arrived, so she read the kids stories while I cleared the breakfast table and made us a place to work in. Then I checked email and found that no-one else was coming, so we did our thing.

We got one-and-a-bit assignments done₁₇₄. I think it will be easy enough to finish the second one now it's started. Homework groups are basically about motivating each other to actually start, dammit.

Since hardly anyone came, we opened the pack of luxury choc chip cookies₁₇₅ that come with nine to a pack; there were three kids and two adults, so it was almost two each.

We've had lunch now and I've put another dishwasher load on, of casseroles and saucepans and things. I have a headache. And I need to do laundry and remake Linnea's bed and finish clearing the kitchen and start prepping dinner, because we have someone else coming at four for an after-school playdate.

Tomorrow, no-one at all is coming₁₇₆. I think I'm relieved.

My green hairy lip squid

I washed so many dishes, surfaces, children, paintbrushes, and also etc, today.

Nrgh.

I washed so much that when I got into my bath, the skin on the backs of my hands went bright red and stung, like burn skin, or a chemical irritant. Which I suppose it was.

I had a very very hot bath₁₇₇ until I stopped shivering and then fed Emer to sleep. I also tried and failed to get a deep splinter out of my foot.

Tomorrow I must bake bread and hopefully take the children out, if it's not too slippy. Fresh snow will help in the short term but it might be too short. We want to see the sweetshop and the toyshop and the bookshop and the playground and a cafe, I think, just the three of us. And not in our house.

And now I must eat a ton of bara brith₁₇₈.