Self-indulgent

I'm going for the pretty portrait today just because I love it. 

She's tried so hard the past two days. They've been good days. I slipped up today a little- I let her just play and play because she seemed happy outside in the garden, leaving her for over 2 hours. She said later she doesn't want me to do that tomorrow because it had left her all muddled from the routine we've just nicely established. She doesn't want to treat this as holiday because it's not.... so we will return tomorrow to a more normal pattern. She did well explaining to me though. But from there on I decided to just put all efforts at reshaping the day aside and just make it a gentle day. 

She did her Bassoon Breakfast practise, just very late. She had some hammock time and some more garden time. Our house is in a group of 4 with shared drives and a very small car area behind the house. The neighbours have kindly agreed she can play out there with sole use (she's the only child). She scooted out there happily for a bit. 

She had an early lunch because she wanted to do a workshop with the Benedetti Foundation, a great jazz improvisation class. When she'd done, she played more lego and I suggested she might like to bake. She made doughnuts all by herself apart from the frying. We went for a walk straight after (burn them off a bit!). More lego when she came home and a play time with B. A number of episodes of friends as a bit of a treat with her tea before her and Moll did their next installment of the book they're reading. 

It's been another pretty good day., with more moments of Katie than I've seen in an awful lot of the recent days. This is in no small part down to the incredible support our friends have been to her in all this, so we are extremely grateful.