Little Miss Princess woke up with her tummy hurting and spent most of the day wanting to cuddle with mommy. This was not the 'I want to be close to you' kind of cuddling, this was the "I want to be an appendage of you' kind of cuddling. Which for the most part I throughly enjoyed because my baby will be SEVEN on Saturday! :-( So I think a day at home was just what she needed to help her get thru the next couple of days and be healthy for her birthday.
Big Sister actually slept in! This girl gets up like clock work, but not this morning. She spent the first few hours of her morning snuggled in bed with a book (or two or three). She stayed in her pj's all day including going out to feed the horses-quite a site when you add a coat, gloves, hat and boots! She eventually took a shower and got dressed for ballet only to come home to quickly put on another pair of pj's. When I tucked her bed tonight, she said "I am really glad we had today to do 'nothing' I needed it."
Brother slept in too! This little guy comes downstairs by 6:45AM every morning dressed, including shoes. Today he followed Big Sister's lead of donning pj's all day. He is typically always in a room with someone, even if doing his own thing, he likes being in the presence of others. However, today he spent several chunks of time alone. He had a bit of a crazy day at school yesterday with a sub and I think he truly wanted stillness/quietness today. His day ended with Mom cuddling in his top bunk and a smile on his face.
Our Ghanaian Princess, was already planning on spending the day at home with Mom because of her week thus far at school and her teacher being out. So we had all of our school work ready to go. I thought we would not 'do school' as long as she was making good choices and not trying to ruin her siblings day. Well, let's just say school started after breakfast. It started and ended with counting coins. Something she is quite capable of doing but has been playing 'dumb' at school when asked to complete her math work. I will spare you the painful details of the day-including the repetitiveness of what each coin is worth, the touch points of the coin to remind you in case you forget how many cents it's worth, how to count by 1's, 5's, and 10's, etc. This girl had decided she was not going to do her math correctly and worked ever so diligently at doing it wrong.....then my knight in shining armor arrived-DAD! He stopped in after lunch and said "Looks like you need to come to a quieter place to get your work done, gather up your stuff you are coming to work with me" Well let's just say she doesn't care too much for this plan-Dad has a desk in his office set up in the corner just for times such as this. After a few hours of a very peaceful house (and spirit) we headed to Dad's work to bring her home so Dad could go to a meeting. She had continued to work VERY HARD at not getting a single answer right! But Mom was now refreshed :-) Back at home, the siblings and mom settle in on the couch to have a movie and popcorn snuggle fest, while she enjoys her popcorn with her math problems. In TEN minutes this girl completed 90% of her math......the same problems she had spent HOURS on all day coming up with every possible answer but the correct one. UGH! Why oh why?!?!
"I see the movie was quite the motivation for you to turn your brain on, you have now proven to yourself and mom you do indeed know how to do this....and for proving yet again that Mom is right in the fact that you are indeed a very smart, capable girl and whose mother is very stubborn who loves you more than you will ever know!" To which she smiled really big and said "I know.....love you Mommy."
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