Dull in weather...but not in ideas

It was a gloomy, drizzly day all day today. I actually welcomed it, as it meant we could stay in and just *be*.

Nathan was at a bit of a loss and lolling around asking me what we could do - it's not often he's like that. It didn't take him long though to get over that. I suggested he get his Dangerous Book for Boys out and see if there were any inspiring ideas in there he wanted to try out. I recalled seeing some marble games, so asked if he wanted to play a game of marbles. Since we couldn't set it up outside (and we don't have a large concreted area anyway) we marked out the inner circle using string (I had him measure the circle to have a diametre of 30cm). We had a great time trying to aim our shooters for the marbles.

He then went back to wanting ideas on what to do (doesn't realise there is a word such as "bored" lol), so I just bounced the question back to him "what would you like to do?" and after a pause he said "I want to make W a present!" (his friend who broke her leg yesterday), "I want to make her something pretty". So I asked if he wanted to make her a beaded bracelet, and he said no, he wanted to make her a doll. I asked if he wanted to attempt some felting and make a soft doll for her out of felt. He agreed, so we set ourselves up with some felting wool from my craft drawer and set to work (going from my memory since it's been 18mths since I felted - and only once).

(we just tied a bit of string around a bunch of wool and separated out some arms and a body - no idea what I was doing lol)

(looks kinda cute here)

(but kinda scary here once wet and soapy)

Maybe I'll go off and google some ideas on what to do with it.

While I made some zucchini jam the kids went off and raced around the house playing and roughhousing for ages - I guess being cooped up in the house does eventually bring on the need for exercise.

We decided after lunch that we would go out and do our groceries despite the drizzle, got home, kids watched a DVD, the rain stopped so went to hang out in the garden with the chickens for a while, back inside for some games (memory) which Danielle's really gotten the hang of in the few days we've been playing it.

We finished up the evening by reading some more Wizard of Oz before bed.