Half term day one
I didn't set any alarms this morning and finally woke up at 10.45 - couldn't believe it! I drifted in and out of sleep for a while longer and eventually made the effort to get out of bed at 11.30. So as far as I'm concerned, this morning simply didn't happen! LOL.
The kids were all quite happy downstairs doing computery things. We had some lunch then nipped into town.
First we went to Vision Express so I could buy One some clip on sunglasses to go over her normal glasses. She is very sensitive to light because of her albinism, but since she moved from hospital eye care to normal optician eye care, she doesn't get a prescription for sunglasses any more, unlike Little Three who still does at the moment. When the VI teacher came to see her at school the other week, she suggested the clip on ones and I couldn't believe I hadn't thought of it before, because I used to have some as a teenager!
So we found a pair that fitted nicely over her glasses and she was thrilled to bits. :-)
Next stop was the theatre because I want to go and see Billy Liar there in March; a play I loved years ago, and still own a copy of somewhere. I'm hoping to find it and reread it between now and then. I'd phoned Mum to check her babysitting availability and I can go on the 9th March which is the first night. :-) I went to book a ticket, and asked on the off chance if I might count as a concession because of being on income support. I do, yay!, so I produced my IS letter and got £2.00 off my ticket!
Finally we went to Asda because I foolishly booked my Tesco delivery for tonight, then planned today's meal on the ingredients I'd ordered. Which weren't going to arrive till at least three hours after we were going to be eating... ooooops! I haven't quite got the hang of evening shopping deliveries yet! So we had to go and find something for tea, and with it being Chinese New Year yesterday I thought it might be nice to go with that theme, so we chose ourselves meals from the 'heat up your own takeaway' range. :-)
Spent the afternoon all in the living room catching up on the Winter Olympics coverage on iplayer. We watched Men's Luge, Women's Moguls and figure skating, and really enjoyed it all. The children were all doing a fine line in bickering though and Two in particular was displaying some real attitude with me today. I was less than impressed, and when he went to bed, after his reading time I took the lightbulb out of his lamp, because he has been consistently turning it on again at night after I've asked him to turn it off, and eventually sleeping with it on, and I am sure he isn't getting enough sleep. (He isn't scared of the dark, he just likes it on so he can read or play). Hopefully he will sleep better tonight and be less irritable tomorrow!
Discovered during the afternoon that Little Three was riddled with headlice, oh joy. Got her in the bath and did a good comb through with the Nitty Gritty comb - I've got most of them out but I think a few little ones are still lurking so I'll have another go tomorrow, with tea tree conditioner (I just used her normal 2 in 1 shampoo/conditioner tonight and it definitely isn't as effective at stripping the little beasties out).
I completely flipped at bedtime this evening over the state of the house and the way all the children treat our home as if it is just a giant rubbish tip. I shouted so loudly you probably all heard me! Shouted things like 'we are not rubbish! We are worth it and deserve to live in a home not a dustbin! I am sick and tired of being the only one who cares!' And lots more in that vein. I slammed doors. I was generally behaving like crazy-mother, but I've been nagging gently for weeks now and nothing has got through. We were about due an explosion! ;-)
One and I watched QI on iplayer before she went to bed, and enjoyed it, though she was utterly gobsmacked when I told her that Barry Humphries and Dame Edna Everage were one and the same person! Hehehe, she actually thought Dame Edna was a real woman (mind you at her age I think I did too!). I think I may have shattered an illusion there... *grin*
The kids were all quite happy downstairs doing computery things. We had some lunch then nipped into town.
First we went to Vision Express so I could buy One some clip on sunglasses to go over her normal glasses. She is very sensitive to light because of her albinism, but since she moved from hospital eye care to normal optician eye care, she doesn't get a prescription for sunglasses any more, unlike Little Three who still does at the moment. When the VI teacher came to see her at school the other week, she suggested the clip on ones and I couldn't believe I hadn't thought of it before, because I used to have some as a teenager!
So we found a pair that fitted nicely over her glasses and she was thrilled to bits. :-)
Next stop was the theatre because I want to go and see Billy Liar there in March; a play I loved years ago, and still own a copy of somewhere. I'm hoping to find it and reread it between now and then. I'd phoned Mum to check her babysitting availability and I can go on the 9th March which is the first night. :-) I went to book a ticket, and asked on the off chance if I might count as a concession because of being on income support. I do, yay!, so I produced my IS letter and got £2.00 off my ticket!
Finally we went to Asda because I foolishly booked my Tesco delivery for tonight, then planned today's meal on the ingredients I'd ordered. Which weren't going to arrive till at least three hours after we were going to be eating... ooooops! I haven't quite got the hang of evening shopping deliveries yet! So we had to go and find something for tea, and with it being Chinese New Year yesterday I thought it might be nice to go with that theme, so we chose ourselves meals from the 'heat up your own takeaway' range. :-)
Spent the afternoon all in the living room catching up on the Winter Olympics coverage on iplayer. We watched Men's Luge, Women's Moguls and figure skating, and really enjoyed it all. The children were all doing a fine line in bickering though and Two in particular was displaying some real attitude with me today. I was less than impressed, and when he went to bed, after his reading time I took the lightbulb out of his lamp, because he has been consistently turning it on again at night after I've asked him to turn it off, and eventually sleeping with it on, and I am sure he isn't getting enough sleep. (He isn't scared of the dark, he just likes it on so he can read or play). Hopefully he will sleep better tonight and be less irritable tomorrow!
Discovered during the afternoon that Little Three was riddled with headlice, oh joy. Got her in the bath and did a good comb through with the Nitty Gritty comb - I've got most of them out but I think a few little ones are still lurking so I'll have another go tomorrow, with tea tree conditioner (I just used her normal 2 in 1 shampoo/conditioner tonight and it definitely isn't as effective at stripping the little beasties out).
I completely flipped at bedtime this evening over the state of the house and the way all the children treat our home as if it is just a giant rubbish tip. I shouted so loudly you probably all heard me! Shouted things like 'we are not rubbish! We are worth it and deserve to live in a home not a dustbin! I am sick and tired of being the only one who cares!' And lots more in that vein. I slammed doors. I was generally behaving like crazy-mother, but I've been nagging gently for weeks now and nothing has got through. We were about due an explosion! ;-)
One and I watched QI on iplayer before she went to bed, and enjoyed it, though she was utterly gobsmacked when I told her that Barry Humphries and Dame Edna Everage were one and the same person! Hehehe, she actually thought Dame Edna was a real woman (mind you at her age I think I did too!). I think I may have shattered an illusion there... *grin*