At 4:20am this morning, Huffle awoke and knew instantly that something was wrong with the sump pump in the basement (you don't go through life with ears like that and not be able to pick up something far far away!). There was indeed something wrong. The sump pump, pumps away the water that collects around the base of the house and whooshes it away. Instead of it working intermittently, it was on constantly. I don't know what he did but he did fix it and we went back to bed. Of course, because we were rudely awakened, we couldn't get back to sleep for ages. It was also really windy so that didn't help either.
Smallest was up when I got up but Small was fast asleep. I put the landing light on to rouse him gently and went to make breakfast. He got up eventually. After the kids went to school, Moo and I had breakfast and read magazines (for approx half an hour). We dreamed of how nice it would be to sit and read all day long. However we had work to do. We cancelled our forest walk in order to get our wrapping done.
We then sat at the kitchen table for the next three hours diligently wrapping and gift tagging. We had a lovely time and the coffee was flowing. In between time we made some Chocolate Shortbread for the teachers (and us). Lunchtime we watched The Missing (the last part of the series. It has been really good but also heartbreaking as it is about a young missing boy). We watched half with lunch and then the other half after we finished wrapping (actually we didn't finish, we were tired of it) after another one and a half hours.
We made vanilla buttercream for the ginger muffins and then set all the cakes and biscuits on the table for when the kids came home. In the meantime we cleared, washed up and put the presents under the tree.
The boys came home and started sorting out their Teacher Treats, cards were written, bags and tins filled and then they both got on with their homework. Small went to the Science Centre today and had to write (on the computer) a week of journal entries, each a minimum of 150 words per day, for tomorrow morning. It was all about Space. He managed to finish it at bedtime! Smallest did his Maths computer Games work.
Moo and I worked so hard today and only properly got to sit down just as Huffle walked through the door (he never believes that is what is happening!). He served people breakfast this morning at work and won a prize in the raffle of a 'Texas Hold 'Em poker set (random).
After dinner, we all (apart from homework Small - we later found out he knew he had to do the homework yesterday!) played Scrabble.
Bedtime - ahhhhhhhhhhh zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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