A day that has been both good and bad. A day that has had celebrations and failures and a day that is going to ring in my ears for a week!
For the most part, it has been a typical day. Get up, feed bub, have wake up computer time, do something domestic, lunch, more domestic things and computer time and then Ayla and Willow are home.
That’s when it stopped being a usual day. It became the ‘this isn’t my life day’ with 1 very big first.
Ayla is in year 1, and while this is her second year at school, it is the first official year of education. That means, report cards. Yes, my oldest baby brought home her first report card. And, I have to say, she has done very well. Mostly A’s and B’s with a couple of C’s, but on the whole, a very pleasing and positive report.
There are some things we have to work on, like Ayla finishing a task within the given time, but we’ll get there. Some of her co-ordination skills need improving too, but that’s easy – a ball and a back yard are all we will need for that! I’m so proud of Ayla, and sad at the same time- my baby is growing up way too fast!!!!!
Thursday is late night shopping here, so I thought why not. It has been over a week since I left the house and I made the choice. Yeah. Good idea, bad timing. They have a talent quest on at Centro Shopping Centre at the moment, and my ears can’t really take that sort of torture (you know, those voices that don’t fit the key for a song, but the singer is insistent any way). No offence, but if you can’t sing, then don’t sing into a microphone that is attached to loud speakers set to be heard in WA. I will admit, there were some fantastic singers, and I did enjoy their performances a lot.
Shopping. I paid some off my BnT layby ( I am aware this is going to family friendly sites) – another fortnight, and I’ll have it home. Then off to Big W. That’s always fun, with Les racing off so that i can’t actually do any shopping. I usually have the pram, and he tries to wrangle the older 3 (sorry Les, you don’t exactly have enough eyes on your head for that, either that, or Laurel can become invisible!). Those dramas aside, we made it to the garden section and selected some more roses for our garden. This time, we got 2 standards to contrast with the bush roses we already planted, and 1 more bush rose. Our front garden is going to be very rosey to say the least!
Fed up with the noise and misbehaving kids, I decided it was time to go home (it was also time to feed them). Off we headed to get fish and chips on the way home. A good idea in theory, but not the best when it is late, there are 5 hungry monkeys in the car and I have a ripping headache from the shopping expedition.
At least we made it home alive and the girls are now in bed. Phew! Time to relax and get computing!