Well following from a nice week we had a pretty cruddy one involving sick cats (vets bills ouch), C narrowly escaping death, me being really ill (well it was just a cold but I felt like shite & couldn’t get out of bed for 3 days), being stuck in the house and general money woes. We went out for lunch with my mum on Friday which was lovely but I was feeling pretty dire by the time we got back. C had ballet on Saturday and she & Simon spent the afternoon loading up the car with junk (including a sofa) to take to the dump, I mostly slept; we missed out on dinner with A&C . S was supposed to work on Sunday but I wasn’t feeling up to looking after C, I supervised some box moving & general tidying in the afternoon.

I started feeling a bit better on Monday - S was working an early shift so he got home in time to rush C over to an extra ballet lesson (which clashed with swimming which we missed (annoying because with all the bank holidays it is a really short term)). Yesterday we went to see Ice Age 2 which was IMO crap but C thought it was brilliant! We were the only people there which she was impressed by as well & consuming her body weight in salty popcorn made it the perfect day. She bought a very gorgeous fairy dress with her Easter money & floated home in it!

We’ve also read - Scooby Doo magazines (which I’ve finally got road to cancelling), Click which are perfect for C now & various books. We’ve done some cooking & talk a lot about conservation & what extinction means; she’s helped me lots with looking after Evie. I bought C a new note book & some pens & she’s been doing lots of writing & drawing in it. She’s done some phonics/spelling and I got out the Singapore maths again (the last Early Bird) which she hated I think she’d prefer the next level, but unfortunately they are packed. The geomags have been out pretty constantly as have the cuisenaire rods, she’s been watching Maid Marion which is hilarious