Another night of not sleeping all the way through due to Smallest waking us up at 3:08am (Smallest says that's what time it was) because he had an bad earache. Huffle went downstairs to get some pain killers and some olive oil and Smallest cuddled me in bed until we gave him his medicine and he went back to bed. Of course then it took too long for me to get back to sleep because it is the dreaded hour, my mind starts whirring and I worry about stupid things.
When we got up this morning, he was fine. Huffle thinks having his fan on constantly, aimed at his face/ear all night long possibly doesn't help, so we will get him to keep it off for a while. Huffle saw the kids on the bus for me while I had a day on the Rooftop of The Royal York and did some gardening.
We tidied up the beds, planted Amaranths, Mint and Nasturiums and built and erected the tomato cages. We worked for about three hours in the scorching hot sun with virtually no breeze and then we went and had a lovely meal on the Library Bar.
I had Maple Glazed Salmon with new potatoes, garlic broccoli, carrots and baby courgettes. It was beautiful. I had a lovely glass of wine. We braved the traffic and went home, it was very very busy.
I had enough time to have a cup of tea on the porch and cool down, pot up a couple of plants and then the boys came home. I was using the hose and the kids ran through it to cool down too and then went in the pool. I sat with them for a while before making dinner. When Huffle finished his work, he also went in the pool and they all played until dinner was ready. They ate outside in the shade.
Small was telling us a story about talking to someone at school about an Aunty (we pronounce it arnty) and someone asked him what he was saying. They told him that it was Aunt (pronounced Ant) here and he said 'how do know the difference between an ant and your aunt'. They said that they call an 'ant' a little ant and Small said 'what if your aunt is little?'. Yeah good point Small!
Today the kids brought home all their schoolwork as tomorrow is their last day before the Summer Holidays. They also got their report cards. Small got 7xA, 6xA-, 5xB+, 1xB (his lowest mark was for Dance). Smallest got 1 Satisfactory mark for Organisation which is no surprise at all and 2xA, 5xA-, 5xB+, 3B. Both seem to have mainly improved but it's hard to tell too much as the teachers are on taking part in a 'lawful job action' and we only got A's B's etc and no individual teachers comments which is a shame.
I made Flapjack for the teachers and bus driver and the boys wrote a little note for each. Eight weeks of Summer now and we don't find out which class they are in next term until August time. They both have a good idea where they will be though. Smallest's teacher that he had this year is leaving which is a shame as she seems to be a good teacher. We also have a new Principal starting in September.
The boys played on their tablets and Huffle mended the Redneck Windchime.
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