Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

We’ve been trying to attract birds into the garden for some time now. We’ve never had much luck before and I wasn’t really expecting much this time either. However this time we’ve been attracting loads of different types and the kids are really enjoying catching glimpses of them. When it was snowy we had a couple of thrushes in the garden, or flushes as A calls them, but never had any back since. We have loads of blackbirds and blue and great tits and the occasional robins. Yesterday though we saw 2 goldfinches, one on the feeder and one on the fence. A calls them strawberry faces and really likes them and they both were about when I spotted them so that was really good.

We had a nice day yesterday, seemed to do the required reading and maths without too much trouble mainly as the maths was the tank game. Kids really like that one and play really well together on it which is a plus. We then did some baking as I’d been promising it for a bit, some nice dairy free chocolate muffins. They didn’t taste very orangey though, but were nice all the same. Managed to sneak quite a bit of maths in with the baking and for a change they didn’t strop so I was calmer doing it with them. Sometimes they get so stressed out by thinking the other has a better job than them or that they didn’t get enough licks of the bowl compared to the other - argh! Anyway, was much better yesterday. I’m sure I took some photos, must see if I can download them off my phone…

They played on some games after lunch but as it was such a nice day I insisted we took a walk to the small park for a bit before the schools came out and so we took the football and had some fun playing with that. A took her bike and they just had a nice time in the fresh air. Came home bang on kicking out time and the kids dissappeared back to their games.

A had her Badgers and had a very nice time again, I think next weekend she might be helping pack bags at a supermarket. Poor customers, they’ll be finding bags with one thing in them!! That’s what happens when she packs my bags! Watched the killimanjaro climb when we got home which was fab - would love to do that!!

Today has been a going out day, went to visit the Bonkers tribe and had a fun time making pasta with their new pasta making machine, well until A cut her finger, but she got over it eventually (actually after a looong time!!). Lovely to see the kids getting on so well, think the only telling off was for getting a bit giddy but other than that they played fab.

Home and we did some reading and maths as we hadn’t had time before heading out. A did some fab reading of the Little Bear book which she really liked. We used to watch it all the time on some sky channel and for some reason I really liked it (I know, I’m weird) so I thought they’d both love the book. Unfortunately it’s taken them both so long to get to that reading level that it’s been ages since we saw it and they can’t remember it any more. Wonder if it’s on you tube?