Project 365 – 102

102 – April 11. Tiny Treasures. One of Soren’s shells from his endless ‘collection’. This is my favourite kind of shell, we call them unicorn horns and the kids found lots of tiny ones at the beach last week.

Wednesday, 11th April 2012

The handyman came over today and inspected the brick not-floor in the library. I think he thought it was kind of hilarious that someone would actually do that. He said he can build a wood floor over the bricks with some ventilation to the outside added, and that should solve all the damp problems.

It’s going to cost a lot of money (my dreams of camper trailers and holidays have been crushed, sob) but we have to do it. We need somewhere to put the books! I suppose it does add value to the house, and if it’s dry and leak proof out there then it’s another living space we can utilise. We’ll put a desk out there for Nicholai I think, so he can have a space to get away from everyone for now. When the kids are bigger we might put a tv and the games consoles out there for them to have a hang out space, but that won’t be for a while.

The kids were impossible today. School holidays really suck. Nicholai had a psychologist appointment this morning so I had to occupy the other three kids in the tiny waiting room for an hour. The tablet is really a brilliant invention for times like though. We went to the library on the way home to get some new books, since I was so sick of reading ‘Bedtime without Arthur’ to Soren every day! That’s why I love borrowing library books for the kids, when they get fixated on something I only have to live with it for a limited time. No plans for tomorrow, although I might try and think of something as I’m not sure I can handle another day of the children tattling and shrieking and whining.

Jericho insisted I take this picture outside the library today. I think he was just impressed with himself for being able to climb up on the stone wall.