What a week

Geoff's and my 15th (!!) wedding anniversary. Tessa's birthday. The kids' climbing club AGM, at which I volunteered for too many jobs ... when will I learn not to do that? Two trips into Wellington, one for the unschoolers group meeting and one to Te Papa which was where Tessa wanted to go on her birthday. Tessa's party. Geoff starts a new job on Monday. And I have a bad cold. (Josiah has the cold too: Geoff and Tessa got it first and are mostly recovered, then Josiah got it, then I did.)

You can imagine the state of the house The kids are pretty good about doing daily chores if I remind them and check up on them but when I'm too busy or feeling too unwell to do that, the chores don't get done at all, which is disappointing. I suppose they too have been busy. And unwell. But being unwell hasn't stopped their usual pursuits, except for Monday when Josiah felt ill enough to want to lie reading on the couch most of the day and agreed he shouldn't go to Boys Brigade. To my mind, if they are well enough for normal pursuits, they are well enough for chores!