WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE DID THAT WEEK GO?

Hiya

Sorry, can't believe it's been 10 days since I last wrote this up. I am seriously out of practice.

So Easter weekend arrived. Oooops! I'd forgotten, or rather I'd lost track of what weekend we were on and thought it was the following week. To be honest though Callum was so involved with his game I don't think he really cared. So the weekend went a little like this: Friday, chilled out; Saturday, I did my back in after I'd managed to track down an egg for Callum; Sunday, I laid on sofa in pain and Callum ate his egg and Phil ate his chocolate; Monday, I felt a little better and we went off to Capstone Park to do orienteering. Forgot camera! Anyway, we were given a map, a list of clues and a compass and sent on our way. The idea was to use the clues and the compass to find stamping posts to stamp our card with and hopefully manage to find all the stamps and make it safely back to the starting point (visitors centre). We decided that Callum would do the stamping, I would read the clues and between Phil and Callum they would use the compass and try and figure out where we had to go. We managed to find all the stamps eventually, but we did get lost twice, well lost once and miss a stamping post completely once. Took about 2hrs and we all got a choccy egg at the end. My back was killing me by the end of it, so I went back on the sofa for an hour or so when we got in. Then into the kitchen with Callum to make chocolate rice crispy (gluten free) nests with added mini eggs inside - yum!

Tuesday and Wednesday we continued to write up all our days out. We've had loads to do as we've been forgetting to write them up and had a rather large backlog. All done now and our folder looks rather impressive with write ups, photos and some additional information with regard to special events. Now just got to finish off a project and we are finally up to date! Hooray!!!

Thursday we had his friend Azeem over for the day and they spent all of it on the computer! Command and Conquer again. Was very interesting listening to them making maps and plans and then the uproar of laughter when things didn't turn out quite as expected or the 'enemy' did something silly.

Then Friday it was a friend again; this time Callum D who we haven't seen for ages. Once again it was the computer! Boys of a certain age do tend to be slightly obsessed it would seem, but at least they were communicating and cooperating with plans and laughing lots!

Today has been quiet although he did go out with the dog this morning with dad. Came back with a tray of strawberries which haven't really lasted that long in this house!

As well as the above, his sister Terri has been over for a few days this week so its been nice to have her around.

Tomorrow we are on a bee identification course in the afternoon and next week its back to normal as the kids go back to school and our home ed events will start up again.

Lets see if I can write his up a bit more regularly. Hmmmm, don't hold your breathe.

Cya