Apart from the banging pre-thunder headache, and huge atmosphere pressure mood swings from DD, I am relieved the see the rain as it usually means a good night's sleep for the kids, and it means I don't have to go out and water all the pots in the garden!
Today we have had a very lazy day, after a big trip out yesterday and huge delays and cancellations on the trains (this endless and mysterious 'staff shortage due to sickness' that only seems to plague Southern Rail.......) which meant an hour and a half's journey actually took 4 hours, for 4 adults with 10 kids in tow and a whole mixed bag of special needs in to the mix!! What a 'treat'! But the kids were all so good, and the parents were all so lovely, it made a painful experience actually pretty enjoyable :-) But we're tired today, so we're chillaxing :-)
I've relaxed the rule of 'no TV' during the day. (I normally don't allow TV until after 'school' time - unless we are specifically watching something relating to a topic we are doing or something like that). But today we have proper vegged out and eaten popcorn and biscuits (the kids I mean, I'm being good ;-) ).
We've also read this great little book together -
Apart from a (hugely immature) chuckle to myself that it is a 'lift the flap' book on making babies (chortle, chortle!) it was a GREAT book! The kids really enjoyed it. There was enough factual information without being too much at their age. It answered alot of questions they had and they really enjoyed seeing the 'actual size' pictures :-)
We also did a little impromptu learning about cotton and the cotton plant, the farming of cotton and what can be made from cotton :-)
DD had, by this time, stomped off upstairs in another tearful outburst. My fault entirely for suggesting she might be feeling tired! :-)
DS then decided he would build another domino run, and has made his own weighted catapult that fires tiny Lego bricks due to a chain reaction that means a truck hits the dominos, as they fall they launch a spoon that knocks a cup down which in turn (by the connecting spring) flips up another spoon that fires the Lego! It worked! He is now 'unsellotaping' the table lol :-)
We don't have bedtimes any more (see my earlier post about how that works...) but tonight I'm thinking dinner, bath, bed is definitely on the cards. And that's just for me ;-)
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