An average day, more or less
Bit of a slow start this morning, but once we got moving, we certainly made up for it!
Barney made a list of people he wants to invite to his birthday party, and we designed invitations. I sent some invitations attached to emails, and we printed a test copy of the rest - I need to change the ink in the printer before we can print full-colour ones. Will do that later this evening, and the kids can deliver them tomorrow.
The run-down for schoolywork involved maths, literacy, ICT, recorder and French (including sex-ed ;-)) for both Barney and George. Barney also did some geography and science and George some history. Freddy had blasted through so much this weekend that all I asked him to do was practice his recorder, but he also went back to his maths book and completed a few more pages of that. Jack coloured and drew in two different books and presented me with both.
We lit the fire - oh, I forgot to blog that we finally figured out how to light our fire yesterday. We’ve never had a gas fire before, and we thought the cylinder was empty, but it turned out the ignition-y bit was bent - once we bent it back, the fire lit easily, and it is nice to have it going on a cold day like today 
The boys played computer games for a couple of hours later in the afternoon, and I think George did some drawing. He did a huge picture on Saturday and described it to me thus: “That’s a prison door, that’s a shadowy figure holding a shield and a sword, and that’s a 14-year-old shooting a bow.” Hm, might be an idea to get him to write a story based on all that. Scratchy came home and while he was making dinner, Barney decided to wind up George, who is particularly easy to wind up when he’s hungry and therefore stood on his chair screaming at everyone. Result: Barney and George got sent upstairs and told to forget about going to ju-jitsu tonight. When they’d calmed down and had come back down to eat, it was pointed out to them that if you’re relying on someone to take you somewhere, annoying that person is not a good idea.
After dinner I nit-combed everyone except George (I got fed up, I’ll check him tomorrow). I’m getting very good at stretching out fairytales to keep Jack happy while I check his head 
They’re now all getting ready for bed, and I’m about to go and nurse Toby to sleep
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