WE'RE KNACKERED!

Hiya, it's been a very busy week this week and Callum and myself are knackered.  So much so that we are looking forward to a lazy (ish) Friday tomorrow.  So what have we been up to?

Well, Tuesday saw us off and out to our Faversham meet, so didn't have any timetable work to do.  Had a great day.  Callum's main friends weren't there, but after one of the other mums and myself had finished on the computer he took our place and spent the rest of the time in there laughing with the other kids and, apparently, helping some of the little ones when they got stuck on something.  Travelled back with some friends which is always lovely as it makes the journey so much more enjoyable.  So another enjoyable day.

Wednesday his sister Terri came round as usual and we had a grand day out foraging with Carol and her daughter, Lauren.  Terri brought Merlin the dog too, so Callum and Lauren had lots of time running around, playing with the dog and climbing under and over fences.  We did do one little adventure through lots of thistles and brambles and nettles which didn't have the desired effect, but it was an adventure all the same.  I got bitten twice, however, and those have now become rather hard lumps on my wrist and finger.  Callum was fine!!  We collected sea wormwood, mugwort, linden flowers, a bit more red clover, samphire and purslane and ground ivy.  The samphire was eaten for dinner, the purslane put aside for tomorrow and the rest was dried for teas and moth repellent sachets.

We were supposed to make a colour spinner for art which also works as science as it should spin and create white, but we never got round to it and that's on the list for Friday.  But Callum did get his English Language task done before we headed off for the day.  So that's 3 days this week so far and all have been brilliant.

And today was home ed Sports Day at Mote Park.  Wasn't entirely sure how Callum would be, but he was dressed in his blue trousers and T-shirt ready to be part of the blue team.  Managed to squeeze in a watch of the BBC's documentary Turn Back Time - the Family which was about the 1920s and the depression before we went as we were both up quite early.  Got a lift from Lorraine and Amy, who was also in blue team and arrived at the park with plenty of time to spare and eat lunch and say hello.

Callum began to get a bit clingy which could have caused a bit of a problem as I was helping Lorraine on the Quoits game.  However, the lovely Erica agreed to take him under her wing and he was happy to stay with her.  He ended up competing in 4 of the 5 events and every time I looked across to see how he was he was smiling and chatting to the other kids!  Am so proud of him today!  Am still miffed by the fact that if he'd stayed with me he probably wouldn't have done anything, but if happy to go off with someone else, he'll join in.  He even did one of the races that he'd told me seconds before that he wouldn't do.  I wonder if it's because I try to encourage him and he becomes stubborn and refuses.  When someone else suggests it, he's fine.  It's very strange and very frustrating as I don't know what to do to change it.  Am so glad he joined in today and he's admitted that he had a great time and wants to do it again!!!!!

Lovely bunch of kids of all ages and they all worked together as teams and no-one was left out.  Everyone got stickers depending on where their team came and all got Royal Mint Olympic Coins to keep as mementos.  And the weather stayed glorious!

As I've already said, we are having a 'lazy' day tomorrow.  That means we are not going out and we haven't any visitors due: so it will be making our spinner and watching a bit of telly with a possible documentary thrown in and I'm sure we'll have a chat about how well the week has been.

Anyway, that's it; a busy, but fun week and Callum has done things he wouldn't normally do and has had some great social time and produced good work to boot!  Go Callum!

Cya