Just ticking along

We've had a real "home based" week this week. Largely driven by the need to save on fuel use, but also without the need or desire to leave either.

We had friends over to visit on Monday, Tuesday we went to Playcentre in the morning, Wednesday we hosted our unschooling group, Thursday was spent by ourselves with the fire going all day, and today we had a full day out - we'd been storing up a few errands and things to do while out to reduce our car use. The day started with Danielle's SLT session, then after an early lunch we headed down to the library to exchange books, wandered across the road to the mall to buy a few books for a friends birthday tomorrow, met with friends at the inside playground while us two mums were able to talk self-sufficiency, community and sharing workload and skills. After saying goodbye to them we headed to the organic shop, next door to the toyshop for a play, over to the big red shed and home in time for making dinner. It's funny - an 'ordinary' day out has actually become a bit of a highlight for the week. We made sure there were no time constraints and just stayed for as little or as long a time as we wanted and didn't get home till after 4pm.

A few days back Nathan found a few CD Rom reading/math games I'd bought but hadn't yet shown to him. So we sat down and had a play - this evening he jumped on here again while I was cooking dinner and worked his way around the games he could do, and asked for assistance for others.

We're almost all the way through Heidi. Both kids have helped cook dinner most nights.

The kids have spent quite a few mornings out on the deck in the sandpit while it is sunny as well as down on the trampoline. The lego has been having quite a bit of use by Nathan, and Danielle has been right into her baby doll again.

I've noticed Nathan using a few more complex words in his conversations with me which brings a little internal smile to my face as he tries it out multiple times to see how it sounds reworded.

Danielle sat on my lap this evening while I was checking emails and wanted to have a play on the keyboard, so she tapped around in Word for a while experimenting.