Autumn days

Autumn leaves. Autumn colours. Winter temperatures. Winter sun. The seasons are definitely changing. It was beautiful. Though, as the eagle-eyed may spot, she wasn't happy. Croup is a pig. The night was far from great. But aside from being tired and cough, the day times are quite a different situation, so she's gone to school rather than sitting home feeling sorry for herself. She didn't want to leave mummy though. That said, she went in fine, had a good day and came out happy, if not a little pale. She told me she didn't go out for morning playtime today as her and a few friends chose to stay inside and work on some extended writing for a bit longer. She's a perfectionist, she spends a long time carefully planning and doing her writing, and really hates to not complete it so I am not surprised to hear this!

She cried almost the entire journey home as o told her she wasn't allowed to go swimming this week. She was coughing in the cold air and the crying made it worse. Crying descended into full meltdown once we were home but eventually she accepted that I wasn't budging on this decision. We had soup and bread whilst snuggling with a movie as a midweek treat & she came round. I tucked her up in bed quite early & she read a school book before falling to sleep surrounded by her favourite soft friends