I was up early this morning as I had offered to look after 'Little P' and his baby sister 'baby H' today. I wanted to provide a meal for his family and knew I wouldn't be able to cook with three small children. I therefore used the old faithful slow cooker to prepare Carribean Chicken. Obviously in the recipe there is pineapple and peaches which presumably one might find in the carribean but celery came as a bit of a surprise and made me question how authentic the recipe might be.
Anyway, I love my slow cooker as it is quite satisfying to know that dinner is practially all sorted before 8.30am in the morning! I made sure Seb had his breakfast and had packed his lunch, saw him off to school then drove the half hour trip to pick up my two charges.
Back in the car I set off and suddenly realised that I have never actually looked after a 'pink' baby before, I suddenly felt concerned about how one is supposed to change a girl's nappy and whether there was some special technique I was blissfully unaware of! Fortunately it never became an issue as no dirty nappies from either 'P' or 'H' today. Wish I could say the same for Nat!!
Wednesday is the Mum's prayer meeting at Church so I drove straight there but having picked the kids up so early I arrived before any of the other mums. As the car park is quite a walk from the church building I knew I was going to have a problem trying to herd three children safely accross the road. I therefore pulled up on the double yellow lines and rang the bell. One of the young guys working in the church opened the door and when he understood my predicament he suggested I pull my car around the back of the church to park in one of the church bays. He said he would meet me round there and give me a hand helping the children inside. When I drove round the back I realised there weren't any free spaces but he very kindly then offered to move his van to let me have his space. He managed to double park his van next to someone else then came and escorted the boys while I carried baby H.
Mum's prayer was very good. We had the lovely Emma Dawson (founder of the mum's prayer group) back with us teaching for the morning. Emma used to run the group on our site but now she oversees the Racecourse mum's group and oversees the mum's groups on all three sites.
Emma has four sons and is pregnant expecting a little girl. The icebreaker this morning was to come up with suitable girls names for them to think about. Emma was then teaching on Ephesians 2 and in usual zany Emma style used practical visual illustrations to represent the Gentiles and Israel (I was Israel!). We then had a really interesting and thought provoking discussion about how we each judge other people and what motivates those judgements or makes us think we are better than other people e.g. people without children who park in parking bays intended for people with young children.
After mum's group I bought the kids home and fed them lunch. Having learned my lesson from last Friday when I left Nat and little 'P' to feed themselves and ended up with scrambled egg all over my dining room I decided to adopt a different approach today and fed each child individually in shifts. Thankfully they all seemed very calm and played nicely and patiently awaiting their respective turns.
I put some rice on to cook in my rice cooker (another fabulous invention! for which I am very grateful as without it my rice is always inedible!)
Dropped the Children back at 2.30pm so I could be home for Seb coming out of school. Thankfully no homework to do today. I do always dread what new task he might come home with although to be fair he doesn't seem to have had as much homework this year as last. Seb was pleased as he was awareded a Deputy Head teacher's award for a recent history presentation he had given.
Had to pop over to my parent's house to water their plants in their greenhouse and their hanging baskets, bring in the post etc. The boys managed to have a fight over a watering can which ended with me having soaking wet feet and shoes!! Thankfully it is a beautifully warm day today (26 degrees celsius) Rain forecast from tomorrow morning though so doesn't look like it will last!
I have prepared Seb's lunch for tomorrow and as David had a late meeting I had plenty of time to play with Nat and to sit out the front of the house with a cup of coffee while he rode his bike.
Back to work tomorrow then Little P and Baby H over again on Friday. Bring on the weekend!
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