A glimpse into the future.

On Thursday we had to get up early to be across the other side of town for 9 o'clock.  This was a very big challenge for us, but not only were we there on time, we had time to spare!  A had won a prize in his cricket club's raffle of a day of gymnastics for two.  I'd noticed some flyers on the tables when we went to the club's junior day with information about gymnastics during the summer holidays and had asked the girls if they were interested, but neither of them was.  They used to do a weekly home ed gymnastics group which they enjoyed, but sadly it folded (there was the suggestion that it was going to continue after a break, but we've not heard anything despite a few emails to try to find out).  When A won the raffle prize though, they agreed that they might as well go along since it was free, they were a bit put out when they found out that it was a whole day rather than just a couple of hours and even more so when they found out that it started at 9 o'clock!

It's about a 20 minute drive across town, so, since it finished at 3 o'clock, I had over 5 hours on my own at home!  I'm used to having the occasional hour or so to myself, but it's incredibly rare to have longer than that and it occurred to me that over the next few years this is going to become more and more frequent as my girls start to spread their wings a bit further and for longer at a time.

I was had anticipated that they would enjoy themselves, but I was quite surprised that they wanted to go back.  Since there is a considerable discount that means that a third day only costs £5 more than two, they decided to go for three, which means that, with the drama workshop that they are doing the week after next, I will be having nine 'days off' over the course of the summer. 

In other news K & M have been continuing with the library summer reading challenge.  Although they do read quite a lot anyway, they have both taken on board my suggestion to try to make sure that they chose a variety of different books for their six challenge books.  K is currently reading Bedknobs & Broomsticks by Mary Norton and has Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories out to read next.  Both girls have tried one of Helen Moss's Adventure Island books and M has already finished four books, but is currently reading How to Train Your Dragon, which she was given for her birthday.  We have finished Journey to the River Sea, which we all really enjoyed and have returned to the Wombles.