NotSheep

It was a very productive morning here! I took three recipes that I know always go down well, and made them in huge quantities, then froze it all except enough for dinner this evening, and one lasagna for tomorrow’s dinner. Feeling very virtuous and looking forward to eating it all

This afternoon I decided to take the breadmaker back, to save me taking all the boys with me tomorrow. So I put it in the car, and drove to the shopping centre where I bought it - but when I got there, it was closed! There were lots of people standing around the various entrances, and there were signs on the doors saying that customers and staff were not allowed in “due to unsafe circumstances”. Somebody said it might be a flood after all the rain - but I can’t see the whole shopping centre being closed for that, I’d expect them to close off the affected section. Very odd anyway - and I didn’t get to return my dead breadmaker

The boys were squabbling at a computer again this morning - why, when we have two desktops and countless laptops, do the four older kids all end up squashed around one computer and arguing?! So I turned it off, and told them to find something else to do. This produced a bit of a Kevin moment from Barney - unfortunately for him I turned around unexpectedly and caught the grimacing he was doing behind my back. He’s been informed that it’s to be expected that he will have disagreements with us, but that he’s to express his feelings to our faces, not behind our backs, and that he’s to express them in a respectful way. It was also pointed out that this method is far more likely to convince us to listen, and to get him what he wants

The four of them spent most of the rest of the day constructing things with the domino-race stuff, and using every piece from the games drawer to create scenes and scenarios. Barney was going to teach Jack to play chess, but delegated it to Freddy, and since Freddy isn’t terribly good at keeping Jack “on task” (as the schoolies say ;-)) it wasn’t too successful. He’s definitely ready to learn though, so I’ll have to try to get the QuickChess out during the week.

We’re all now watching HP4 again, and munching popcorn - a good end to a busy day