Yesterday was jam-packed from mid-day onwards. Both K & M got crafty in the morning, with M in the kitchen working on a Christmas present for K, a decoration with beads. K was in the playroom painting some pasta to use as beads among other things.
We had a quick lunch, which K & M finished off in the car on the way to Asfordby. The theme was Christmas decorations and both girls coloured a wooden decoration and K did a stencil picture of a Christmas tree and made a heart out of a sparkly pipe cleaner and beads. After that M joined in with a group of children starring in a film trailer, using an app on the ipad belonging to one of them, who directed it, K was involved too, although I'm not sure how. They had a whale of a time, both inside and out (getting rather muddy!) making this trailer and there are plans for making another one next time and K is considering taking part as a performer next time.
After Asfordby, we went for play and tea to friends', where all five children headed outside to play on the trampoline, zip-wire and more, not in the slightest bit put off by the mud, cold or indeed increasing darkness! There were a couple of sibling squabbles (mostly between my two!), but mostly they all got on fine.
We'd just finished tea, when we had to dash off to get back in time for Brownies for K & M and speech therapy (post laryngitis, still not got my voice back properly nearly 4 months on) for me. There was more Christmas decoration making at Brownies. A has just told me, that when he dropped the girls off, the parents had to hang around for a while for insurance reasons, because of the two 'Owls', of whom one always needs to be there, one was running late and the other wasn't well. During this time, they played a ball throwing and catching game and then 'wink murder', A said that K sat out for that game, she didn't make a fuss, but didn't want to take part. Clearly her principles of avoiding tragedy extend to this sort of parlour game too!
Today, we had a much more relaxed day, with K & M playing with playmobil this morning. This afternoon we headed out to the library, where they had a couple more Secret Seven books in for M, who is enjoying working her way through them.
We then shopping, making a tour of the numerous charity shops, bumping into another HE family, who I recognised but don't really know, on several occasions, as they were doing the same! The girls pooled their resources and bought 3 videos between them for £1, 101 Dalmations, The Lion King (despite having been very upset when we watched in the first time when we had it from lovefilm and I had been severely chastised for having got it!) and The Aristocats. M also bought a couple of Dick King Smith books, and K bought a Christmas present for Great Grandma, a little lavendar doll with a bar of lavendar soap. I also bought a few more Horrible Histories books (we were given a load a while back, the girls won't touch them, but I'm quite enjoying them at the moment and they might change their minds!), plus The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom's Midnight Garden.
When we got home, the girls watched their new 101 Dalmations video, while I started making Christmas mincemeat and put the dried fruit to soak in brandy ready for Christmas cake making tomorrow, and then later they had korfball. After watching the film, M came and questioned me. She asked: If you were a dalmation and you already had 15 puppies, would you adopt another..(pause while she worked it out, bearing in mind there are, I believe, 3 adult dalmations in the film)..83 dalmation puppies? I said I thought not, as that would be rather too many in my view.
Finally, I have decided that I am going to start reading to the girls again, but have an absolute limit of one chapter per day (and not necessarily every day). So today we started Just William, which they loved. I've really missed reading to my girls and they've really missed it too.
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