That’s a super cute piece of furniture stressy I’d love something like that! We’ve agreed to get proper coat hooks when we move and can actually drill the walls to put things up. Currently we have a bent (ie overloaded) metal thing that hangs over the door, and I have a children’s coat hook thing but even command strips don’t hold it up. I may see if we can upgrade to something like that. Although I have big plans for the hallway - or depending on the house layout it may have to be in another room. I want a sort of command centre for all the Caglets’ club stuff - dance shoes, uniforms etc. So they can pack their bags every night for the next day and it’s all in one place, no forgotten ballet socks etc. I guess it would make sense to have all the other stuff needed outdoors there, like gloves etc. But either way we need proper permanent coat hooks. And don’t get me started on shoes, I haven’t a clue what we will do about those. We have one of those over the door things (it’s on the opposite side of the door to aforementioned coat hook - it’s a full size door to a cupboard under the stairs, weird layout as the stairs are in the living room ) but I hate it with a passion TBH.
Huzzah for vamoosed conservatory! So exciting. I’m looking forward to having a garden, we’ve agreed we aren’t expecting anything of it this year as spring will be over by the time we move, and we have so much to organise and pay for without adding plants etc. So the plan is, pay a friend to mow it for us and just have it as grass until next spring when we will plan flower beds and such. That said we do want a wild area, so I guess we could mark that out straight away and let it get a headstart!
What. A. Day. Several hours in random town with a grumpy git of an 8yo, thank fuck the weather held, not that he wanted to actually do much anyway but it made the wandering round easier. DD had an absolute blast at rehearsal although anxiety is ramping up about the show tomorrow. Latest thing is that she has a very wobbly tooth and is convinced it will come out mid dance! Have to admit my own anxiety has been super high the last few days, I was messaging friends to calm myself down, I just really stress about stuff like this TBH (and I really really don’t show this to the Caglets, I am very careful and light and breezy).
ta da
✅helped with quick tidy
✅scanned Tesco shop
✅reminded Caglets to do DoodleMaths
✅taught pupils
✅got DD to rehearsal without forgetting anything
✅found the library and renewed all my books - must find them all and return the one which is requested by someone else
✅various emails about trampolining
✅paid coach and hall hire for trampolining
✅organised timings for trip back to theatre town tomorrow with my parents who are seeing the show
✅organised meal for DD between shows which was seriously stressing me out because I had failed to sort it beforehand, luckily it was fine although I’m still paranoid the principal is annoyed at me for forgetting before!
✅booked tickets to new anime film next week, so excited! Zoo it’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower, debut from a new studio that is sort of taking over from Ghibli. Realised though that DD doesn’t have her glasses and will struggle to read the subtitles. Bugger. :(
✅got Cagletini into her own bed, I’m about to sleep myself at a relatively decent hour.