Just Jo!

Well, I stayed awake for the rest of the film last night….but I slept in late this morning. We both did. We all did actually. 10am!
Then it was a big fight over the bathroom….
I finished decorating my polystyrene egg and Olivia got on with some workbooks. She’s finished another English one, a couple of pages of maths and science. She had another crack at multiplying decimals, then she lost interest and energy. She’d had a tough time earlier with some mental maths. Mental maths is not her favourite thing and she finds it hard. I said she didn’t have to do it all in her head, she could write down whatever she needed to. No point her getting frustrated and upset because she can’t do it. She loves maths (even though it’s her weakest subject), and if she starts feeling like that about it, she’ll lose all that enthusiasm and just not want to do it anymore. I think if she maintains a love of it, it’ll eventually click somewhere in her head.
I suddenly remembered that it’s the start of Songkran, a New Year festival in Thailand (I think), lots of water involved apparently, and I was looking up more info on it when Lisa and the girls arrived. Apart from going out in the garden for a waterfight, there was nothing quickish they could really do today. So we left it. That and Baisakhi, a two-day Sikh festival. I’ve been a bit slack on the festivals lately. The next one coming up is Cocuk Bayrami (Children’s Day in Turkey) on 23 April. Ooh! And St Georges Day! Will I get my act together in time for those two?
Anyways, those who hadn’t finished their eggs on Tuesday did so quickly, then joined those who had in drawing, glittering and playing in the garden. Except us grown-ups who drank tea and chatted.
We had hot cross buns again. I asked who wanted one. Everyone did. Olivia and one of the girls didn’t want theirs toasted, they wanted to eat theirs straight away.
“Are you sure?” I asked.
“Yes!” they answered.
“You just want a plain bun?”
“Yes!”
“Not toasted?”
“No!”
“Who wants theirs toasted?”
The rest of us did.
“So, two plain buns, four toasted, right?”
“Yes!”
I handed over the two plain buns, and started toasting the others. Olivia and D chomped into their plain buns. Not toasted, because they’d both made it very clear they didn’t want toasted hot cross buns. Does it feel lke I’m labouring the point here? They definitely stated they definitely wanted plain buns! I’d made absolutely certain. I had witnesses and everything! I handed out the toasted buns. Olivia walked past us in the kitchen….
“Ohhh! How come you get toasted buns???”
Give me strength!!!!
As they were leaving, R said that the eyes she’d just glued on to her pompom rabbit had rolled up into it’s head….
“Yeah, mine do that a lot as well!”
I got a photo of all the eggs, including mine and Lisa’s….

Olivia managed to fall quite spectacularly from the garden gate as she was saying goodbye to everyone. I’d already come in by then, so she came in howling to me and Lisa came into see if she was all right. She also got a wonderful display of my maternal concern as I tried and failed miserably not to laugh as Olivia was gulpingly telling me what had happened….

I’ve realised it’s later than I thought, so Olivia’s been chucked up to bed. I’ll have a quick read of blogs, then bath, followed by Withnail and I, another Lovefilm offering. I’ll not be doing the drinking challenge game that goes along with it. I’m half asleep already!

Saw this on Eleanor’s….

Your Vocabulary Score: A

Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! You must be quite an erudite person.

Yay! I got an A too!!