A few little highlights this week. Puff has been playing a video game that has a special feature that unlocks at midnight. Now I know (and I suspect he knows) that it’s possible to change the time on the phone and just access the feature this way, but he was keen to have a “midnight fishing party”. So after his normal bedtime routine on Friday night, Dad woke him up at 11:30pm, having made some popcorn and grabbed some lollies, and we finished the game together. I think it will be a good positive memory for him in years to come? Who can tell?
Saturday we had a rare unscheduled day, so after Dad made some hotcakes from Huff’s new 4-ingredient-recipe book, we headed up to the mountains. A quick detour for lunch with Grandragon later and we were in Blackheath where the kids were enjoying the view, and Huff in particular was trying her luck with some climbing.
She’s very adventurous, and loves to run and explore.
On the way home we stopped at the Katoomba festival for an early dinner, and then went home. We were all rugged up, enough that Puff wanted an ice cream for dessert (not much of a queue for dinner).
We also had parent-teacher meetings this week, and managed to cram in a long-overdue visit to the local library for some more reading materials.
Lots of late nights at the moment: wondering what catching up on sleep might look like for everyone – the kids would like to have more sleep, but don’t want to go to bed any earlier or sleep in any later.