Got up at 7:30 and woke Lydia who was also still fast asleep after her late night at Beavers. Decided to help her get dressed as could see she wouldn't be fit to get herself dressed today with the late start and rushing around.
Got everyone out the house eventually including Tom as we had a meeting at Lydia's school after dropping Phoebe off. Got to Lydia's school just as her class was walking in which was good as it removed some of the faffing at the door.
Once at Phoebe's school, said hello to the friend of Phoebe's in the playground who's coming for a playdate next week, and introduced myself to her Mum as we'd not met before. Need to come up with an activity for them. Then back to Lydia's school.
Meeting went well, admired the cast concrete mid century staircase and the very good Year 6 art whilst waiting to be seen. Home to my laptop and calls about Christmas out of home advertising, social media planning, more recruitment and a barrage of emails.
Very nearly didn't make it to my school governor meeting in the afternoon, so drove back up to Phoebe's school. Safeguarding meeting with head in my role as safeguarding governor. Interesting chat about the challenges around attendance and its link to parental mental health and socio economic background.
Once that was done, sat in car for 20mins doing online Xmas shopping before it was time to pick up kids. Always love picking up Phoebe as she's so excited to tell me what she's learnt.
Find Tuesday pick up quite hard generally as I'm normally tired and very hungry and so are the kids. Bit of shouting and grumping from everyone today but better than it has been. I think driving home helped a bit. Set kids up with activities and snacks, Phoebe making birthday cards, Lydia working on her cardboard pyramid for her Egyptians project. Helped out as required between bits of washing up and starting dinner. A few dance breaks, Lydia quite good at being a jive follow, working on her spaghetti arms, and good for me to practice lead in a low stakes way.
Dinner full of kids who couldn't sit still, so more dancing after dinner for everyone including Tom, and a good silly shake to Shake it Off which genuinely helped.
Just about managed bedtime, girls had fun throwing rather at each other in shower for 5 mins whilst I did mad tidy if Lydia's room ahead of cleaner coming tomorrow.
Phoebe asleep about 8pm, Lydia about 9pm, she'd enjoyed reading her new Egyptians lift the flap book and playing with play dough quietly whilst I got Phoebe to sleep. Tom out to home group
Did a bit of tidying and flopped on sofa about 9.30. Needed to trim and file my nails as had badly cracked my thumbnail at some point today. Tom back about 10pm, watched episode of Riot Women before bedtime.
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