...making Playmobil figures put on a performance of all of the songs from Matilda the musical, with an audience of Playmobil figures some (including royalty!) sitting on the piano keyboard and some top of the piano (up in the gods).
However in between performances, K has been writing thank you cards, and of course it's feed yourself Friday! M really wanted to make toad in the hole today, but I persuaded her to wait until Daddy was home and we could all eat together for that, so instead we had cheesey mash and beans, one of the girls' favourites. So M, with some help, made that instead for lunch. They also made their own tea after K's ballet. M had pate (sorry, no accents on the laptop!) on toast, then K decided on eggy bread. Once K had made her eggy bread, M wanted eggy bread too, so she had some with jam for pudding.
To return to the thank you cards. Earlier in our home educating journey, I tended to get rather stressed about the lack of writing that both of my girls did. Understandably, both my girls, but K in particular, would only do any writing if they saw a point in it and contrived reasons very rarely cut it. One thing that they did see a point in was writing thank you letters, so partly because it's a nice thing to do and partly because it gave a 'real' reason for writing, thank you letters/cards/emails are something we've always done. Phone calls would also be fine, but neither girl tends to go for those. Nowadays, I'm more laid back about feeling the need to see that my girls can write (partly because I have seen that they can!), but the tradition of thank you cards remains. There have been some lovely moments when doing them, like the time one of them wrote (I think it was K) following a present of lots of bits and pieces rather than one larger gift, without any help at all:
Dear Granny and Big Grandad
Thank you for the stuff
Love from
K
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