Early Morning

Busy day today!
Miss E's school was taking part in the annual Milton Keynes choir festival and we had to drop them off at school at 8am to "warm up" and get the bus in time.
8am!!!!!!!
We made it with five minutes to spare, get us!
Miss L and I headed home again for half an hour before Nana arrived and we set off again dropping Miss L off before heading to the choir festival.
It felt like mid afternoon at 10am!!
The choir festival was lovely. Miss L's school was there too and I saw lots of mums I know from there. It was weird seeing them as the competition!!
Miss E's school had a choir from Year 3-4 as well as her Year 5-6 choir and the younger ones did the most beautiful version of Coldplay's Fix You. It was spine tingling and at one point I thought I was going to burst into uncontrollable sobs. Just amazing!!
They got the longest round of applause of the day and were deserved winners with a distinction.
Miss E's choir came joint third with the one from Miss L's school which she and her friends were pretty unimpressed with!!
After saying our goodbyes Mum and I headed to Ikea. I needed one last set of shelves for our living room "library" and my mum wanted to look at curtains.
I introduced Mum to the delights of Ikea meatballs which, unbelievably, she has never had before! She normally has gravlax!
Just as we finished eating I realised I'd lost all track of time and we only had fifteen minutes to get round the shop, get what we needed and then leave in time to get to Miss L's school to watch her in a netball match.
It was annoying to have to rush but I got my shelves at least and we hot footed it to the car and then to school for the netball.
We had to laugh when we got there during the warm up. All the girls from both teams were running round the pitches to warm up.
All the girls apart from Miss L who was strolling round by herself at the far end of the astro as if she was taking a walk in the park. It was very funny!
Her group was very much the B team and it was hilarious watching her once they started playing. She had a really long cord dangling out of her hoodie which she stood twirling as she nonchalantly watched all the action cup the other end. She was goal shooter and there wasn't much going on down her end!! She made friends with her opponent and they spent lots of time going up to the line they're not supposed to cross and ostentatiously jumping back and forth over it. 
She may not be the best sportswoman in the world but she's a joy to watch!!
Having stood in the rain for an hour it was nice to get inside for the Mother's Day tea in the sports hall. It was sooooooo busy!! I'd imagined a quiet, sedate little tea but it was more like a rugby match!!
Lovely sandwiches and cakes though!
I was a bit cross because we got sent all round the houses to find Miss L's gluten free goodies which had been set aside for her. She had to go and queue somewhere else and then when she got to the front she was told all the gluten free stuff had been given out already. There's only two gluten free kids in the school so how hard can it be?!!!!
Eventually they went and got her some sandwiches and cake from somewhere and she was happy. Mummy was less happy!
Yesterday when I picked her up she was in tears because in food tech they'd been making scones and the teacher had "forgotten" she is gluten free and didn't have any suitable ingredients. 
That's bad enough.
What's worse is that the teacher told her to just make the scones anyway but not eat them. 
She was so sweet offering them to Miss E through her tears!
I was furious. She's been at the school since she was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease, aged 2. That's six years for people to get used to the idea that she needs gluten free food and ingredients and to figure out that it's completely unacceptable to forget and brush her off with  "don't eat it" Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
I emailed her headmistress tonight at about 10.40pm - letting her know in no uncertain terms how pissed off were are - and was pleasantly surprised to receive a reply at 11.20pm agreeing with us wholeheartedly that it wasn't good enough and she'll be following up next week.