Sunday

There was a slow start to the day today since it was Simon's first day home with us after a busy week.

I had been keen to buy a couple of storage units for the house. One was to take care of the miscellaneous craft/art supplies in the kids area of the lounge and another for the shoes at the front door. Our small house means limited places to put things. So this is now the kids activity table area with the new basket drawers addition. Eventually, I think a nice cupboard/shelving would go well on this wall, but the table is really useful for now and there is no other room to put one (especially when we bring the fire guard up in winter).

We then popped down to the video hire place and got out Charlotte's Web which the kids watched after lunch. Nathan then wanted to go on the computer while Danielle was napping, so I suggested a new site I'd heard of with activities which we could do together (since I needed to read the instructions for him), so he was into that for about 1/2 hr.

The kids spent a bit of time down in the garage and trampoline with Simon over the course of the day.

Danielle got the ball out to do some throwing with me, then Nathan got into the game and as Danielle wandered off eventually he turned the game into a challenge where he was to duck under the ball as it came towards him.


After dinner Danielle put on a classical music CD and wanted to dance (although she ran off to get changed out of her short into a skirt first).

The kids asked Simon to make muffins with them, so we munched on those while reading Little House on the Prairie. Nathan found it amusing that the girls wore nightcaps to bed and was intrigued with Pa building a log house.