Well it’s been a bit of a funny week, with Millie starting school. To begin with she was only in for half days and even now that she’s in for two full days at the end of the week, she still starts later in the morning and finishes 15 minutes earlier in the afternoon than the rest of the school. So I’ve had a total ‘school run’ overdose this week! I feel that all I have done is walk everyone over to school for 8.50 when Abbie goes round, then wait around until 9.15 for Millie to go round, then head back home or to town for shopping. Then head back up to school at lunchtime to pick Millie up and take everyone home for lunch, then head back up to school to pick Abbie up at the end of the day! I am quite looking forward to Monday, when they will both be in at the same time for a full day! Millie has been getting steadily harder work on the trips to and from school as she has been getting steadily more tired! I began the week taking the buggy, with the board on in case Hannah and Georgia needed to go in, but in the end gave up as it was Millie spending more time in it than the little ones (usually managing to upset Hannah and Georgia and cause some sort of argument in the process) Why is it that kids always have to make things more complicated than they actually need to be? On one occasion Millie decided that she needed to go over to school in her roller skates (really?) which was quite an interesting trip. It involved a lot of wobbling, squealing, slow progress, her sitting in the buggy when she couldn’t ‘skate’ across the grass! and her trying to climb up, in skates, between the trees when getting from back to the path from the field (umm nothing like making the school run trickier than it needs to be!) On Wednesday Millie had the day off, but we still had to do the three trips to and from school as I had to go over in the middle of the day for a meeting to find out how Millie is settling in! Fortunately, she is settling well, and so far seems to be enjoying it...long may that continue. Abbie has decided that she doesn’t want to be in Year 2, as it involves too much work and not enough choosing!! So added to the numerous trips to school this week, we have also had to comfort an upset Abbie, who no longer wants to go to school, and I’ve had to hand her over, crying, to the teacher on the corner and that’s never fun! I think she will be happier when she can walk round in the morning with Millie...... (fingers crossed)
So now I’m left with just Hannah and Georgia during the day (I say ‘just’, but obviously it’s still half of the full amount!) I am actually looking forward to having a bit of time for them, I do sometimes feel they’ve missed out on a bit of attention and time with me. We’ve done the shopping (they were both brilliant all the way round Tesco) and been to the library. We’ve shared a load of books and I feel that they are enjoying a bit of time when they are not being bossed about by the older ones! Although, I do now have to watch what mischief they are getting up to. Usually Abbie or Millie will come to tell me if they’re getting into any bother, but the other day there was no-one here to grass them up when they climbed on the desk in the spare room, took all the batteries from the battery box and all the CD’s off the shelf and ‘arranged them’ in a pretty pattern on the floor, I think the ‘arranging’ might have involved some throwing if the crashes and giggling I could hear as I ran up the stairs was anything to go by!!
So now I’m left with just Hannah and Georgia during the day (I say ‘just’, but obviously it’s still half of the full amount!) I am actually looking forward to having a bit of time for them, I do sometimes feel they’ve missed out on a bit of attention and time with me. We’ve done the shopping (they were both brilliant all the way round Tesco) and been to the library. We’ve shared a load of books and I feel that they are enjoying a bit of time when they are not being bossed about by the older ones! Although, I do now have to watch what mischief they are getting up to. Usually Abbie or Millie will come to tell me if they’re getting into any bother, but the other day there was no-one here to grass them up when they climbed on the desk in the spare room, took all the batteries from the battery box and all the CD’s off the shelf and ‘arranged them’ in a pretty pattern on the floor, I think the ‘arranging’ might have involved some throwing if the crashes and giggling I could hear as I ran up the stairs was anything to go by!!
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