Another month on

1: Accidentally coordinating outfits.
2: Making paints with berries and flowers.
3: Cat love. (Yes, Morgan is obsessed with those dungarees.)
4: We *could* be making bird feeders. Orrr, the peanut butter is nice for sticky sensory play...
5: Gloop, arts festival with friends.
6: Painting in the Silk Mill.
7: Birthday arcade.
8: Bunny child loves sweetcorn.
9: Gorse, heather, bump.
10: View from the sofa, on another day when I just couldn't.
11: Leaf.

(Still here. Still hanging on by a thread. Martin has had his hernia surgery and is slowly slowly in less pain. I am pretty low on coping, but trying to find the bright moments.)

Seven Days in which the sun comes out

1: Stickering
2: Cereal and improvised private cinema
3: Heather yarn
4: Playground break during a board games marathon
5: This little guy was showing off so loudly!
6: Walking with my mum, perfect sunny Mothering Sunday

Seven Days of calm and lovely

1: A Zebra Bear who is roaring really loudly and causing an avalanche. Apparently.
2: Nature walk to find frogspawn, with friends of course.
3: That IS a parrot in a tree. He has a Facebook page.
4: Alphabet ordering.
5: Everyone piles on grandma for cuddles and then jostles for space.
6: Calm cooperative playing (doesn't happen every day haha)!
7: When all your weekend plans get cancelled because a child is sick at 2am, there's extra time for knitting.

Seven Days of the best kind of everything

1: Just this Tali person and board games at Game Knight again
2: Rowan helping her best friend at his family's allotment (picture taken by the fabulous Emma)
3: Taking Harmony to meet grandma outside her school gates
4: Alternative uses for Ashleigh's Jenga bricks
5: Trying unsucessfully to capture the bright irridescent colours of the circumhorizontal arc in the cirrus clouds overhead (just below the centre of the picture!)
6: Wet hair, post swim play area; Talia shouting, "stand here mummy!" and then ignoring me!
7: Elvaston Castle has an abundance of places to get really muddy at this time of year

Seven Days of visitors and visiting

1: All dressed up
2: Board gaming with friends (pizza at Derby Alchemy, yum yum)
3: Aaand board gaming again, with cousins, at Game Knight
4: New project, mess
5: My tiny nephew, Finn
6: Aaand board gaming at home with friends!
7: Watercolours

(Sorry, giant picture dump, I partly neglected writing due to illness, tiredness, and busy-ness... But also my phone was refusing to upload photos. And now I can spam you.)

Seven Days of all the usual music, art, and technology

1: Jenna and Tali ukulele session
2: Crayon drawing by Rowan, "Seaside", pocket contents by Talia
3: Pastel drawing by Morgan (I love that she and Rowan have a really similar style right now!) - "Art Gallery"
4: Cat plus piano plus veg box
5: Engineering open day, a Rube Goldberg machine, historical engine running, and lots to do with friends
6: Marble run construction
7: Butterfly paintings (without pants, of course)

Seven Days of mainly creative stuff

1: Knitted blanks waiting to dye
2: Anonymous surprise penguins
3: Spring silks
4: CAD/CAM at the Silk Mill with friends
5: Post-board-game-day dancing in the dark
6: Very Hungry Caterpillar