Busy morning, blank afternoon

[ailbhe]

This morning the children were in my bed when I woke up and crawled out. I did a load of laundry, a load in the dishwasher, got breakfast (such as it was; in the end everyone ate satsumas and flapjacks) and did some reading with Linnea. She's really getting going on that. Then I went to take in dry laundry preparatory to hanging wet out, and had to deal with a dead rat.

I hate rats. But we live in a built-up area, so they're here. I guess at least we have cats so the ones in our lives are mostly dead.

But after I bagged the dead rat and left it on top of the recycling bin, I wasn't able to bring myself to bring the landfill bin through the house and put it in. Nor was I able to bring myself to hang the damn laundry. Yuck.

The rest of the day was taken up with playdough, elderly and crumbling; board games, all mixed up; card games, all mixed up; tiddlywinks ("NO, Emer, that's not the RULES!"), nakedness, bottoms, unforeseen visitors, and at some point I had a bath and read another page or two of my current book.

And at some point Linnea made herself a passport including a picture of a globe to show where she comes from. I think passports with maps in would be ace.

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[sierra-le-oli.livejournal.com]

The old Dutch passports used to have the history of the Netherlands drawn on the stamp pages, from the mammoths to the modern age. I still miss them.