Mostly M.

M and I have been struggling lately and there have been some instances of less than my finest moments of parenting, when dealing with her less than reasonable reactions at times.  Understandably M is finding is very difficult to cope with the uncertainty of not yet knowing whether she can go to school yet and I'm finding it all very stressful too.  This time next week, we should hopefully at least know the answer to that; the appeal is tomorrow (Tuesday) and we will be informed in writing 'within five working days', so it could be after the weekend but we're hoping not.

On a completely lovely note back before the summer break, M decided that our friend known as Korfball Kathy, who is my oldest Nottingham friend and coaches the junior korfballers, deserved a Blue Peter sports badge.  Having decided this, she wrote to Blue Peter, telling them about her and asking if she could have one.  It was probably about a month or so later that she received a letter back from them.  It said that unfortunately she was too old for a sports badge, but they sent a Blue Peter sew on patch for her instead.  We saw her a couple of times after that over the summer, but M had decided to keep quiet about it.  Tuesday was the first korfball session back, so when I dropped the girls off I hung around along with a couple of other parents I'd managed to let know about it.  When she gathered the children round, after I'd got everyone's attention, M made a little speech about what she'd done and Blue Peter's reply and presented the patch to Korfball K, who was chuffed to bits.  She's already sewn it on to her tracksuit top and is telling everyone about it!

Korfball K with her Blue Peter patch!

Recently, when transferring birthdays to our new calendar (I get one which runs from September to the following December) I noticed that it was Felix Fox's birthday on 6th September.  Felix is a puppet who is very much a member of the family, so it's quite surprising that this had been forgotten.  M decided very quickly, since A was away on the day itself that she would bake a cake to celebrate at the weekend.  Since he is a fox, she decided to do so in the shape of one of his favourite things.

A chicken!