When Mummy's not well.

I woke up this morning with a horrible cricked neck that incapacitated me rather a lot.  It was rather annoying, because after a rather busy start to the week, I had planned to have a quick whizz round getting various chores done as we've got friends coming to stay for the weekend.  Had all been well, it would only have taken me an hour or so and then I could have got on with things with K & M, but it wasn't to be.

Fortunately I had already decided that today was the day that our new slow cooker was going to be put into use for the first time, so M & I went to the shops to get a few bits that I needed.  We also popped to the library and I bought a couple of books in their clear out sale.  When we got back, M started work on the cake that we had previously agreed that she would bake today and I peeled and chopped and threw all the ingredients into the slow cooker, turned it on and that was tea sorted.  I needed to help M a bit at times, but she did most of it by herself.  She had been planning the decoration for some time, with the friends in mind who are coming to visit, based on a game that from last time we saw them, when the three girls were all huskies.  After a 'feed yourself Friday' lunch, she did the decoration and was pleased with the result.

The figures are made out of marzipan.

While M was busy in the kitchen, K had found the books that I had bought from the library and had been looking at one in particular; What Makes Me Me.  She had had a flick through and came into the kitchen, where I was helping M, to tell me that she had done the verbal and spatial intelligence tests in there and had got all but one or two right in each case.

K & M have been very sympathetic to my plight today and I have had at various times a giraffe and a polar bear on my neck to try to ease it (the girls have microwaveable animals as hot water bottle substitutes).  When I said that we really needed to get some jobs done before our friends came to stay, K volunteered to hoover and M picked things up so that she could.

In other news both girls have been playing the piano quite a lot, K had her first ballet lesson back after the summer and K's black eye is looking really incredibly beautiful!