The Little Mister has a reading record which he has to record in minutes over the course of the week.
Let’s just say he finds the competitive nature very motivating!!
Back to school for these two today – year 4 and year 5. They are growing up so fast and they are certainly ready to head back into school today.
The sadness of the day was the announcement that Queen Elizabeth II died this afternoon. She was the longest monarch and an absolutely amazing woman. She will be much missed.
Today was an extremely busy day. Both kids had Music Centre Open Day.
The Little Miss was on first and had Primary Choir which was fantastic – she has complained wuite a lot over the last few weeks about going to practices but since she saw me rehearsing with my choir she has been much happier to attend. They were absolutely brilliant. `She then had Primary Violins and made a really great sound. I am very proud of her for working so hard at her violin.
The Mister then went to pick up The Little Mister from Cub Camp. He wet wiped him down and put him in uniform and he went and performed with Junior Strings. After the assault on the ears that was the woodwind and brass group before them they were fantastic. Really good sound and The Little Mister looked so comfortable playing his violin. I was very proud of him.
We are so grateful for the wonderful Guernsey Music centre and their staff. We are fortunate to get such high quality musical education and I love the fact that at least twice a year, no matter what level, we get to hear them perform. Wonderful.
After the open morning The Little Mister was returned to camp to continue with activities such as Tomahawk throwing.
The Little Mister went to a fabulous event today. An island wide Scouting event for the Queen’s Jubilee – a short church service and then a social event involving activities at Castle Cornet.
I tried really hard to get a sensible picture of The Little Mister and his bestie in their Cubs uniform. As usual they both refused to oblige!
Mothering Sunday and this picture pretty much sums up the two sides of the coin which reflect the day for me.
On one side of the coin I am so blessed to be Mummy to these fabulous small people. They bring me great joy and pleasure and I am enormously proud of them for their kindness and compassion for people as well as their achievements and successes, Oh, they are also enormously stubborn and frustrating at times but I think we call this character building.
On the other side of the coin is the constant reminder that my Mum isn’t here and it is now 8 and a bit years since she died. So much time has passed but her absence is still obvious at special occasions. I am hugely grateful that I had such a wonderful Mum and she taught me so much about mothering, things that I never knew I needed to know. I wish she was here to ask about the bits I forgot to learn though.
Two sides of the same coin but both remind me that I am hugely blessed; for what I have and what I had. I am a lucky mother and daughter,
This evening The Little Mister and I spent about an hour at the Emergency Department.
He has a weird and unexplained rash so we went to get it checked out. The rash is still weird and unexplained but he is otherwise well so it is a game of wait and see.
He was very disappointed that we got seen within 5 minutes of arriving – he wanted longer on his Kindle!