after the rain

which also happens to be a piece of music

children are home - covered in hay and they stink of horses.

I went up to the farm at 3pm hoping to get all of them back but they were just sitting down to lunch and I only managed to reclaim two (after patiently waiting for them to eat about four tonnes of food). Those two got scrubbed and set in front of their homework and then I went to get #3 who had refused to budge...she was helping with honey extraction and wanted to be there for the whole process. They hadn't finished when I went back at 6.30 but she had to be dragged home, showered, fed, homeworked and put to bed.

I have a pile of hay-covered, horse-stinking clothes to wash and three exhausted but happy children who proudly told me they haven't cleaned their teeth once over the weekend. The adults enjoyed the company of my children, apparently they are very helpful and well behaved. Personally I think they are just damn good actors ;-)

It's nice to have the house filled up again, it was a bit rattly with only two of us.