Author Archives: Megan Smith

This was followed by a session of silly poses and funny dancing lead by Auntie Daisy. Shapes were thrown and poses were struck. Absolutely fabulous work all round!

Despite a few outbursts, the kids had just about been good enough for ice cream. It also meant I got to have some too! Genevieve insisted on eating hers in the circus tent. She’s an odd one sometimes.

I totally won at multitasking today. I had Genevieve writing a short blurb for the book she’d just read whilst concurrently playing Kim’s Game with James. Winning!

When he wasn’t finding the edge pieces for his jigsaw or quizzing Daddy about dinosaurs, James was keen to show off his hopping skills. He’s really good at it!

Grandad needed a haircut so, following some instructions from Grandma, the children took it in turns to set about Grandad’s hair with hair clippers and without a care in the world. Genevieve announced the result as brilliant; James was less impressed. Grandad declared the experience as interesting!

James appeared not to understand fully the rules of petanque. He spent most of the game moving the winning bowls away from the jack and kicking his ones closer so that he could declare himself the winner. He did so with a cheeky smile on his face; knowing exactly what he was doing and the fun he was providing. He’ll do well in life!

The fun and laughter was soon brought to a halt when it was declared time for Genevieve’s home-schooling. It is amazing to think that such a bright, clever and mainly very willing girl would fight tooth and nail against writing a few sentences in a book.

I dug the kids’ Mr Frosty out of the cupboard. It was a lot of hard work to get a minuscule amount of shaved ice out (certainly nowhere near as easy as the adverts make it look), and the handle felt like it was about to snap off at any second. So, we ended up cheating and just blitzed some ice in the blender. Winning!

Stephen made a beautiful daisy chain that the kids took turns in wearing as a headdress. Gorgeous. It’s amazing how angelic they can seem! Sadly the daisy chain didn’t survive long but it was nice while it lasted.

Today started a bit different to normal as Stephen and I were booked in for COVID 19 tests. We wanted to rule out the possibility that we’d passing the virus back and forth between ourselves and the kids. We arrived at what would normally be a car park but was now more like a field hospital with white tents and shipping containers scattered about the place.