So today was the first day without Paul in the house and everyone coped remarkably well. Cherie and I took Annie and Michael to the local pool for their regular Saturday swimming lesson, which was quite fun. The lessons are only about half an hour, and Michael, though desperate to run into the water with his clothes on initially, did not take too kindly to being ducked under in the pool, despite having done it before, and being given the warning to which he's accustomed (the wide-eyed look of shock on his face when I pulled him up was a cause of slight schadenfreude. The crying for a large proportion of the lesson afterwards wasn't though...). After the lesson, we battled through torrential rain to the car (seriously, Australia?!) then Annie and Michael went down for their nap, and I went for one too, despite fully intending to go into town after Cherie suggested it (the rain and lack of umbrella was a bit of a hinderance though).
We the spent most of the afternoon disassembling and reassembling Annie and Michael's cots to transfer them to the 'spare room' (which has the nappy changing table/all their clothes in it) so that they could be closer to me and Cherie whilst Paul is away. It was actually quite...well, maybe not actually fun, but certainly satisfying, in a rather masochistic way. Annie and Michael 'helping' (by which I mean using the partially disassembled cots as obstacle courses, and periodically running off with bolts and allen keys) made it quite interesting. Both slept perfectly happily in their 'new' room, whilst Cherie and I had a much deserved glass of wine, and some delicious homemade cauliflower soup. Unbelievably, it's getting cold enough here for soup. Bah!
A xx
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