This morning James woke up at 6am. Now that time of the morning is completely unacceptable at the best of times, but today it was even more so as he had had me up at 3am to pee in the night too. I swiftly and sternly told him it was not morning and that he needed to go back to sleep. I don’t actually know what he did as I woke up again over two hours later to hear he and Genevieve playing really nicely in her room. I think it’s for the best that I’m not sure what he did in the intervening time.
Stephen was still not feeling great but he is so frustrated and worried about me that he started breakfast with the kids so I didn’t have to get up immediately. I was very grateful for this. I’m feeling pretty run down now and everything is getting harder to do. Stephen still has a temperature. It’s so annoying how much it is fluctuating. One minute it’s almost normal, the next it’s mid to high 38 degrees. So annoying.
After breakfast we watched a spot of Harry Potter while I put some washing on and gently pottered around. The kids got more letters to open from Grandma Lindsey and Grandad Lawrie today so we opened them. James immediately set to completing the bee mazes that he found in his envelope.
Our Tesco food delivery arrived on time. There were only two missing items: effervescent vitamin C and condensed milk. The vitamin C is annoying as I can’t seem to buy it anywhere and the condensed milk was substituted with evaporated milk (yet again). Honestly, the number of cans of evaporated milk I would have right now if I had accepted every substitution would be huge. Ridiculous.
Sausage sandwiches for lunch today. I had ordered sausages in our shop last week in the blind hope Stephen would be better and we could have had a BBQ. Alas, he is not so we couldn’t.
After lunch we did some playing in the garden. Both children enjoyed chilling out in the play tent. James wanted to play “badonk” which is his version of petanque (or more accurately, garden bowls) which lead to much excited jumping and shouting.
James’s friends Imogen and Emily have been self-isolating for a while but braved the outside world to drop off a birthday present. He was extremely excited to unwrap not one, but two mini monster trucks. He immediately named them “Nicey” and “Truck Bangarang”. Brilliant!
It was story time during Grandma Lindsey’s FaceTime chat today. Grandad Lawrie was all set up to cameo as the woodcutter in Little Red Riding Hood, the story that we’d prearranged before the call started. However, James changed his mind and insisted that the story was the Three Bears instead, and that his new monster trucks had to feature too. He also still wanted a cameo from Grandad Lawrie. This meant that Grandma Lindsey began diligently telling the famous tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Woodcutter and the Monster Trucks. It was a delight to listen to!
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