Oh my girls are getting big. Another week or 2 and Ammi and Fran will be 3 and 7 – gulp. And i stand no chance of having anymore, Max has made that very clear. My head is saying next time to me, but there isn’t going to be a next time. I know that is the sensible option but… oh well. Peter Pan complex it is.

Maddy is a bit stressed so we ought to have had a queit day but its been busy. But she has coped much better than she might have so i’m proud of her. Josie fell asleep at 9pm last night, during her tea and slept through being moved to bed, till 8am this morning. She’s been doing regular 10-11 hour stints in her crib for a couple of weeks now. Ammi has moved fully into knickers, no longer likes milk and just seems to very big. In fact, i was struck by how alike she and SB are in character, delicious and high maintenance all at once. Spending time with SB, its easy for me to see how people adore Ammi. I know my relationship with Fran was similar, and its great now, so i’m just biding the time. And Fran, reading EVERYTHING. Lots of interesting questions on things like “by, buy, bye” and so on.

So today was basically a busy “doing things” one. Off to the Optician for me (no detached retina so good, just an effect of ‘aging’, not so good!!!!!) Lovely to see my Aunt and an added bonus was my mum was working in the same time, which we discovered by chance, so we met up for a lovely cafe lunch. Then pootled back for a party, where Fran was the oldest child (very weird) then back home to put up our tent.

This is it without the bedroom pods as (as i predicted) the garden isn’t big enough. Quite amusing to go camping in something bigger than my garden!!!!!

Got a customer issue now – sigh… difficult one, new customer, ordered a week ago and i despatched their parcel. Now saying it hasn’t arrived and demanding an immediate refund. Something in the tone of the email just doesn’t ring true either, i mean ANYONE could say a parcel hadn’t arrived… Site states plainly that items lost in post only refunded if recorded delivery is selected and paid for which they didn’t do. I don’t see why i should take their word for it and refund them after a week, without time for me to look into where its gone, but on the other hand, i’d be pissed off if it was my parcel that had done a bunk. What to do????

Floating Daleks.
Not allowed.

The Beans have been and gone… (Chris, i did chortle at your comment!) Was lovely to have them here; Ammi and SB got on like a house on fire (note to self not to actually SUGGEST “house on fire” as a concept to Ammi :/) and we very much enjoyed their long game of servinig up Geomag dinners…. (how much money have i therefore spent on magnetic playfood?????) Anyway, odds are on for MP camp in the grounds of Chateau Haricot next year.

Their stay was mildly unenhanced by our drains blocking up – ho hum. On the other hand, i’ve just met our landlady, who is really nice and says they definitely have no plans to sell the house at all. Cool.

Tootled off to our group; i was really worried there wouldn’t be enough to do, but thanks to some additions from Tammy, it was lovely. I really think its working very well. There was a bit of charging around at the end, but nothing that i couldn’t stand. is it only boys who do it, or can i actually not SEE the girls doing it as well??? Bizarre boy herd behaviour! Lots of hama, sticking, playdough, crafts, and other people related stuff too. Talked Maryam into having a Hama Party too – quite fancy doing Hama party plan.

Kate collected Fran and took her off for a skating lesson, i collected her and dashed home to feed a very hungry Josie and do another heap of parcels. Josie has been fussy for a day or two but as Ammi and i now have Maddy’s croaky voice and blisters all over our tongue, i’m wondering if Josie does too. And ouch its horrid – my tongue feels prickly all the way down to my lungs. Fran’s been to musical theatre too and is in her last couple of weeks as a Rainbow, Brownies after HESFES.

Educationally, LOTS of reading from Fran, all girls doing lots of computer, lots of drawing, much creativity.

Looking forward to a nice weekend.

and very yummy they are too!

ARGH!

Group tomorrow, had a rough plan of doing “People” as a theme, but have completely failed to get organised! Who is planning on coming and can anyone bring an activity? Pleeeeease……

Slow start, Kate came round, throat has kindly subsided, J appeared. Still v quiet, slightly baffling me. Big girls did some studydog, geomags, made necklaces, hama-ed, played ponies.

Had lunch, marshalled everyone out. Had a lovely time with Tammy and Sam – somehow where they live feels like a totally different town. Effected an interesting and mutually beneficial items swap with them.. lol. Drove home with Fran begging to be allowed to join the Kumon Maths class she saw advertised *rolls eyes*

Girls played Donkey Kong Bongos, i packed parcels. Really feeling quite low and rubbish so i’ll leave it there. Don’t have to hug me, i bore myself tbh. I’m in danger of spending the rest of my life as a kill joy misery guts. *sods off to pity self*

Bob’s big project

Well!!!!

Now WHERE to find the flaming brick to print off??? ARGH!