A bad start to the day.

Things did not go well this morning, K & M were grumpy (that's understating their interactions with each other somewhat!) and I was majorly grumpy (again an understatement) with them.  I had wanted to make a phone call before leaving the house to get to a 10am meeting on the other side of town, not only did that not happen, but we didn't manage to leave the house until 10 o'clock!  Neither K nor M wanted to go anyway, even though I knew they'd like it when we got there.  K usually likes LLL Toddler meetings, M always claims not to want to go, but they both generally have a good time.  I had a much needed chat with other mums about dealing with frustration and anger around children and K & M had such a good time I had trouble dragging them away!

When we got home, I cut some bread and we each got ourselves something to eat and then we retired to my bedroom, M wanted the playroom, K wanted the front room, so my room was the compromise, for a chapter of Harry Potter (we're about 2/3 through The Order of the Phoenix now).  After that M baked some fairy cakes, the only thing I helped with was using the hand mixer to do that actually mixing as it's a bit heavy for her still and getting them out of the oven.

While she was doing this, K was on the computer doing a Harry Potter quiz and some French.  Then we popped to the shops for a few bits and pieces, before returning for M to decorate most of the cakes (I helped make the buttercream, but she did the decorating), although she did let K do two of them.

This photo doesn't really do justice to just how much icing she managed to pile on some of them!

Then they emptied the dishwasher while I made tea and now it's very quiet as they're out at Brownies.