Tuesday treat

Today started as normal, the stress of getting ready for school and all out of the door on time.  Arriving at school, again the kids are excited by the friendly black cat.

I feel guilty that we haven’t bought them a pet. However, I know that a rabbit would be me cleaning it out and a cat might get squashed on the busy main road that we live on. Holidays would be harder to take due to having to find someone to look after it. A dog would be easier as it could come on holiday with us but it would not be happy with being left alone when I’m at work. There is no easy win to the pet issue.

My 7 year old has now started to refuse to wear his lace-up school shoes.  He gets very upset with the laces. I thought that he would practice and soon be able to tie them. I made the mistake in September of buying the next whole size shoe as his current shoes fit him fine.  I was trying to pacify him as I had bought new for his sister.  Yesterday he insisted on wearing the bigger shoes as they don’t have laces. Today he completely refused again to wear the shoes that fit him.  These are expensive Clarks shoes.  I can remember as a child not understanding why my parents always bought me unfashionable Clarks and Startrite shoes. I can remember willing them to wear out. My son is pretty much doing the same to me. Due to struggling with the laces we now have knotted laces. Then daddy cut one of the laces due to not being able to undo the knot. So now they don’t fit in all the eyelets but I am now struggling to find new laces the right size. However, he now will not wear them anyway. Has anyone else had this problem, a refusal to wear lace up shoes?

A few months ago, I had an email from Waterstones to pre-order Lee Child’s new Jack Reacher novel. I could either choose signed or unsigned, of course, I chose signed. Late yesterday afternoon I finally received my email inviting me to collect it from the shop. So straight from school this morning I went to town to collect it. I was waiting outside Waterstones from 8.30am.  At 9.00am I was one of the first to collect my book. I am looking forward to reading it. Along with the other novels beside my bed,  I just need to make time.

After school today we managed to get reading completed. My little boy’s book was about Dick Francis. It is a shame I have not already got a copy of ‘The Sheep-pig’ I am sure very soon he will read it. We will have to show him ‘Babe’, I’m sure both kids would love it if they sit still long enough to watch it.  My daughter, however, was more of a struggle, she did not want to read. She had other plans and reading was not included. We had a look at her phonics exercise book, but she would not let me explain to her what she should be doing. Reluctantly she read her homework book to me at bedtime.

Due to the current confiscation of the IPad, my son asked to have my Kindle Fire. My daughter was not going to use it so I let him have a look at it. He was very soon reading about Minecraft on Amazon Kids. I was pleased to see him wanting to read and he had not chosen something easy.

We read chapter 6 tonight of the ‘Secret Seven’ the mystery is evolving.  I then left my little boy reading ‘The Twits’, which was good. My daughter meanwhile had to be carried out of his room and put on her bed.  She came downstairs a while later for her pencil case. I had to ask her to give me the glue back as I did not want glue over her bedsheets. My little girl is great at making a mess.

Back to work tomorrow, I have a 42 mile round trip in the morning. Will be glad when I am back home again. I am now going to have a look at my new book and try and relax before the drama starts again in the morning, and I am once more back to being mum.