We needed a change of scenery and wanted to see if it really was only -4 degrees C outside. So we actually walked to the bus stop (only over the road but still a trek when it's really cold with 3 children and no pushchair!) and caught a bus about a mile up the road. Then we just grabbed a table and a coffee in the shopping centre and had school there instead of here. All fine for a few hours and rewarded ourselves with a little lunch to share. The difficult bit is just motivating everyone to come home again - family trip to the toilet, snow trousers, boots, gloves, coats, hats, quick supermarket shop, ordering of taxi, waiting for taxi, searching outside for ordered taxi (the earlier warmth had then turned to a driving blizzard!), getting everyone safely inside and up to the 11th floor (praise the Lord for lifts!) - feels like an incredible ordeal when I feel totally outnumbered by my children! But we made it and rewarded myself with a well deserved cup of tea.
Family girls and boys movie evening this evening. Although Kyria opted to join the boys for Spaceballs instead of the girls for Little House on the Prairie - could have only been to do with their selection of chocolate, certainly nothing to do with choice of movie!
Ali
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