Living Arrows 2019 – 13/52

I’m a little bit on the back foot this week.

I normally have these Living Arrows posts written and scheduled by Sunday evening.  I like knowing that they’re all done and ready to go come Monday morning.

This week though I basically took Sunday off.

It was Mother’s day after all, and I just wanted to really enjoy the day with my family.  And with the clocks going forward we were all a bit out of sync come bedtime so instead of sitting down at the computer to write this, I sat on the sofa with a glass of wine and caught up with an episode of ‘ this time next year’.

And it was glorious.

In the morning the children excitedly handed me the presents they’d chosen for me at the school Mother’s day shop.  Rhys had picked out a little vase and Nerys had chosen some mermaid sticky notes.  And they’d both made me really lovely cards at school too.

Steve had got some chocolates and wine for me too, on their behalf so I really felt quite spoilt.

After swimming lessons we went to the beach for a walk and for Nerys to find some pebbles to take to school.  Their homework over the weekend was to find one to take in today, apparently for them to decorate and sell at a tabletop sale they’re doing this week for charity.

We found quite a collection of pebbles in the end, so it took Nerys a while to pick which ones she wanted to take home.  She ended up taking about 5 into school with her this morning because she just couldn’t decide which one she wanted to use.

Rhys helped for a bit collecting pebbles then took advantage of the wide expanse of beach in front of him to just run around, practice pretend karate kicks and generally burn off some energy.

He is suddenly in desperate need of a haircut again and I’m wondering if we can hold off until the Easter holidays to have it done or if it’ll need to be an after-school-one-day job.

I do quite like it when his hair gets like this though, the slightly wild look suits him!

He did his 400m badge at his swimming lesson yesterday and we were so proud of him.  He didn’t know he was going to be doing it so all of a sudden he was told to move to a different part of the pool.  Then he spent over 20 minutes just swimming length after length.  He was so tired but he really impressed us with the fact that he kept going.  He was so determined to do it and really proud of himself when he managed it.

I think he slept well last night though after all that swimming and then a good blast of sea air at the beach.

As for me, I had a lovely day with my family, with absolutely no regrets about leaving writing this until Monday.  The weekend ended on a good, peaceful note that was just what I needed.  I’d been reading the children ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark’ at bedtime and we finished that last night.  It’s the first time I’ve read a proper chapter book to them and we all really enjoyed it.

Now I’m wondering what book to choose next, let me know if you have any suggestions!