A Beach Breakfast

Or, how to get a jump start on the homeschool day!  My hope last night was to pull this off and by God's grace we did it :-)  I packed cereal, milk, mugs, spoons and bowls; Pip and I then walked to Costa to buy two large lattes to share, she also asked nicely for some cornflake cakes and to her surprise I agreed!

 Once breakfast was finished, the rubbish recycled and Pip had scootered around, we then made our way down to the beach:

 Can you guess where she was heading?!  It was strickly a no getting wet day since we were minus towels!  She couldn't resist putting her hands in the water though :-)

 I think her words speak volumes.

 Me taking a picture of...

 ... him taking a picture!

 Dave capturing a shot of Benedict and I playing the selfie game:

 Don't ask me why but this photo hit over 43 likes on my instagram feed!  Totally wierd :-)

 Time to say goodbye.

Once home Pip and I made our way to the pillar box to post a very important letter:

This was then followed by maths bingo and cave art painting:

 "Oh no this is dragging on!"

 "I've told you before no paparazzi!!"

 "This is far more interesting."

 Finished.

Both kids also wrote about their trip to the beach in addition to reading aloud to both mum and dad.

When I look back on the pictures of today they make me smile because in reality they represent only a fraction of the story :-)  I lost count how many times I had to tell Pip to quit fussing or repeating over and over again instructions to Benedict.  They were not alone in the mistake making department and I managed to turn up to Pip's swim lesson at the wrong time and so she only had the last fifteen minutes of a thirty minute lesson.  She handled the episode with good grace and thankfully does not bear grudges!

As I type the dining table is littered with home school stuff and I still have my bed to make!  Keeping it real folks, keeping it real :-)