This morning we sorted out our very late library books and headed into town. Eilidh managed to find six brand new books in the series she loves reading so she was really happy, all about fairies (of course!) Ben spent most of the time trying to hide under the book boxes but still ended up coming home with about six or seven of his choice! We went off to McDonalds for a quick lunch and then headed home again.

This afternoon was spent reading books, playing dominoes and another counting game, colouring, and then they both got quite into doing some mazes and dot to dots which I had found in a pile of paper I was sorting through. This was in between taking turns on the computer on 'Starfall' which is a really good reading site for kids. So all in all a reasonably productive day for them.

Dave was off working again and I was not having such a good day! I managed to put the clothes to be washed into the dryer (twice!), burnt the dinner and spent most of the day walking around in a daze feeling completely overwhelmed by the amount of work that's needed to sort this house out! I really don't know where to start! Then I read a poem I have on the wall and it made me feel a little better....

I TOOK HIS HAND AND FOLLOWED

My dishes went unwashed today

I didn't make my bed

I took his hand and followed

Where eager footsteps led

Oh Yes, we went adventuring

My little child and I

Exploring all the great outdoors

Beneath the sun and sky

We watched a Robin feed her young

We climbed a sunlit hill

Saw cloud-sheep scamper through the sky

We plucked a daffodil.

That my house was so neglected

That I didn't brush the stairs

In twenty years no-one on earth

Will know or even care.

But that I've helped my little child

To noble adulthood grow

In twenty years, the whole wide world

May look and see and know.

Anon