Author Archives: Megan Smith

We survived and got through the day. That’s the important thing.

I felt it was important to bring out the big guns with entertaining the kids today so we built dens with some special den building sheets I had purchased at the start of lockdown. I had been promising to do this with them for a while so they were most excited when the dens finally went up.

We all went for a lovely walk which was the first time the whole family had been out of the house together since Stephen got sick. It was so enjoyable, even if I did have to run back to the house with James who decided he was desperate for the loo.

The children decided that they wanted to “run a marathon” in the back garden. They were very inspired by Auntie Daisy. However, they can’t have run more than 150 metres before they got too tired to continue.

The two main downsides of playing on the Wii were that (1) the kids hate losing so went in to insta-sulks if they didn’t win a particular game, and (2) there was a big comedown after all the excitement so they were almost unbearable in the afternoon. We can’t win!

Stephen discovered the new version of Danger Mouse on Sky and the kids are totally hooked. It’s highly entertaining watching Stephen trying to explain to the kids how the show “breaks the forth wall”.

James has decided he wants to rebuild all of his Lego sets. Unfortunately he’s kindly dismantled and distributed all the pieces across all the boxes of Lego throughout the house. This is going to be a long, arduous Lego building journey.

The children were mostly good while they made cheese straws, but Genevieve got cross and threw a strop when she saw that James’s batch had more twists than her ones.

It’s dinosaur week at preschool. James got out the dinosaur box and ordered them by height before deciding they needed to be sorted by type instead. Then we had a dinosaur treasure hunt followed by dinosaurs in the kinetic sand. All the dinosaur fun.

James insisted that today’s story featured his new monster trucks and also included a cameo from Grandad Lawrie as a woodcutter. This meant that Grandma Lindsey began diligently telling the famous tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Woodcutter and the Monster Trucks.