On Thursday night, M was 'too tired to get to sleep' after the late nights and excitement of our trip to Ironbridge, and really did struggle to do so, so it's not surprising that we had a quiet day at home. K finished off her Blue Peter project and now just needs to write the letter to accompany it before we pack it up, send it in and keep our fingers crossed that it earns her a Blue Peter badge!
After a relaxed day on Friday, today was quite busy. K had her Grade 2 ballet exam this morning, which I took her to, and A had a bank appointment. M was very happy that A thought of asking our friend S, mum of her best friend J and A, if she would mind looking after her, as our usual babysitter wasn't around.
K was very relaxed about her exam, it just doesn't occur to her that it's something to be nervous about. Afterwards she told me that she thought it went okay, but that she had made one obvious mistake, when the music was slower than she'd expected and she went too fast.
Around midday I had a phone call from the library to say that if we were still interested, the event that we were on the reserve list for, had some cancellations. So after lunch, we went along to Gargling with Jelly with the poet, Brian Patten. By the end of the first couple of poems, which were about annoying siblings, and involved a brother with strange dietary habits who ate, among other things, a tortoise and the postman and a sister who microwaved a pet, K was sitting with her fingers in her ears. Despite the fact that they were clearly over the top and not meant in the slightest bit seriously, she was quite upset by them, so she left and went to read a book in another part of the library where she couldn't hear anything. M & I stayed and for the most part enjoyed it.
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