Day 92
23rd March 2022
Spit
Today I woke naturally.
No Linc crawling around on the floor looking for tech.
Instead, I came out to see these two playing the card game spit. (Who names these games?)
Then Liam’s first client was having a sleep in & so Liam had an extra hour up his sleeve. This could only mean one thing.
Pancakes!!
We sat around and had family breakfast, which is rare on a week day. It was so nice.
Liam left for work and then we went to Ocean School.
I don’t know how I did it this morning, but we were 20 min early!
Time kind of stood still.
I figured I’d go and get a Chai latte from the bakery and asked the kids if they wanted a pie?
Their eyes lit up!
“A pie? Now? For breakfast?” Lincoln quizzed.
“Sure.” I answered, feeling like the cool parent who allows meat pies for breakfast.
Shark Egg
Today at Ocean School we talked about sharks.
We know a lot about sharks, thanks to Liam who’s a huge shark enthusiast, but we never tire of learning about them.
We always find Port Jackson shark eggs on the beach, and we decided to look up how on earth sharks lay these spikey eggs.
I imagine the sharks’ fins extending, so they can cover they eyes and grimace in pain.
I mean ouch, right?
Well, we found something even cooler!
We found a video of this man picking up a shark egg in the shallow water and he tears it open and there’s a shark inside!!
It was so cool! We will definitely be checking every egg we come across from now on. 🦈
Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFhoTu4ojQ
We talked about how sharks are all around us in the ocean and we don’t even realise it.
There’s plenty of evidence that shows humans aren’t on a sharks’ menu & there are lots of things you can do to lower, the already low, risk of being bitten by a shark.
1. Don’t smell like pray – If there is a dead whale or seal in the water, don’t swim there. Don’t swim near lots of fishermen.
2. Don’t thrash – If you see a shark, don’t start thrashing around looking like a wounded animal. Stay calm and move away slowly.
3. Maintain eye contact – Sharks are ambush predators, so puff yourself up and keep turning in the water to maintain eye contact with the shark.
When we got home, we watched this cool drone video of sharks swimming peacefully with surfers.
It wasn’t the sunniest day, but they still had a really nice morning.
Rainbow Keyboard
Lincoln’s been talking about a rainbow keyboard for ages and so today on our way home we stopped off to make the purchase with his birthday money.
Mila and I tried all the sofa’s & mentally shopped our hearts out, while Linc disappeared into the electronics sections.
Akeelah & The Bee
We don’t usually do core work in the afternoon and so we watched a movie.
Today we watched Akeelah & The Bee. It’s an old film from 2006 with Laurence Fishburne about a young black girl from a poor neighbourhood with an academic gift, who enters a spelling bee.
There were so many wonderful themes in this movie & we afterwards, we chatted about many of them.
Here’s the trailer if you want to check it out. It’s on YouTube. The kids kept trying to spell the words with the kids on stage.
I wonder if either of them will be inspired to enter a spelling bee. Hmmmm.
Thai No Fishcakes
I didn’t feel like cooking.
I was telling Liam, I have no motivation for cooking, or doing anything. 😒
Like, it’s all too hard!
Even though he’d been at work all day, he whipped up some fishcakes with a cress salad & I was so happy to not be eating vegemite toast which was what I was contemplating. 😍😍
I had an email from a friend today who sympathised with my ‘meh-ness’ and promised a huge hug when she comes out of Covid lockdown. (Everyone we know has Covid!)
I don’t feel sick with Covid anymore, but there is a flatness that follows and she agreed she feels it too.
It made me feel a lot better. 🤗🤗🤗
