Switch to Plan 'B'

I was supposed to be away with the girls at my Mum's now, but the foggy weather dissuaded me. I'm not a wimp about driving in all sorts of weather - it usually doesn't bother me too much - but with the girls on board I really didn't want to be either in an accident (obviously!) or stuck in miles of tailbacks because of someone else's pile-up. If the weather clears by Sunday we may do a quick pressie-swap at a suitable mid-point (usually Millett's Farm Garden Centre near Abingdon).

Anyway this has meant that I have been able to make some inroads at least into some of the mess and clutter round here and have cleared some space so we can move a bit. If only I had a nice chunk of spare dosh I'd hire one of those organisers/de-clutterers to come round and sort us out. It would save me from so much stress and irritability, and I'd get more done with the girls, I'm sure.

The girls have spent most of the day playing, aided by the girl-next-door who was here for most of the afternoon. They also made looooong paper-chains! That enabled me to get on with the said tidying up stuff, as well as loading Money 2007 Home & Business edition onto the laptop to see if it's better than what I'm currently running, in order to keep track of Usborne finances as well as household stuff. We have done some reading together, though, firstly of some Bible stories (Jade's choice) and then one of her Learning Land magazines which covered adding up in 10s which was new to her so I went into a bit more explanation about that. Don't know how much she 'got' it but it's a start.