My Darling Husband just doesn't "get" this parenting lark!
This weekend Sprog 1 has been away on Guide camp, and oh the peace! (I mean, yes we've missed her and everything, but 1 less person in our tiny space makes SUCH a difference! Especially when it means that Sprog 2 is no longer trying to decide which sister she is playing with!)
So, with DH away early on a trip out (he's a coach driver....... he has some really ridiculous schedules!) Sprog 2 decided she would step up and organise breakfast for herself and her sister without disturbing me. Lovely heh?!
I gradually came too as the sounds of "Fireman Sam" on endless repeat filtered through my foggy brain.
Stumbling downstairs I discovered that they had helped themselves to our Traditional "First Saturday of the Holidays" breakfast of Chocolate chip muffins. No problem there, they'd even managed to get the dirty plates to the kitchen sink! (Note to self, get Sprog 1 to go away more often Lol!)
Wonderful - and it was still only 8.30am!
It went downhill from there.
Half an hour later, while I had my hair full of soap and couldn't really hear much over the noise of the shower, along comes Sprog 2 - "Can we have a biscuit?"
What? Huh? - NO! You've only just had breakfast!
Another half an hour passes, and I'm busy sewing campblankets for the campfire we'd been invited to. Blankets and badges spread ALL over my bed (the largest uncluttered space in the house!). Up trundles Sprog 3 - clearly acting on orders from big sis! - "We're hungry, can we have a biscuit?"
No! You've only just had breakfast, we'll have elevenses in a bit!
........ It's now 9.45!
At 10.30 I wander into the kitchen to grab a drink and find out how things are...... and disover that the tops of all the muffins that were left are now missing! Picked over by little fingers!
Give her her due, Sprog 2 owned up immediately! - And was sent to clear up her bedroom floor as punishment.
So, I text DH (who is always complaining that I don't involve him with family discipline - on account of him never being around at "crunch time"!) and explain the situation.
.......... His suggestion??
..... to explain to Sprog 2 that the ONLY thing in the kitchen she can help herself to without asking is a drink!
...... Errrmmmmmmmm......... That's the rule anyway, which was the point of my asking for his input!
Arrggghhhhhh! :-)
Bless him!
And Sprog 2? Well she's been to apologise and has decided that her punishment should be "I won't have a muffin next time we have them" ..... so maybe I'm on the right track after all!
AM
Sunday 25 July 2010
Friday 23 July 2010
Oh My!
....... Is it really a week already? Gosh, all you Company Girls have caught me on the hop this afternoon! Lol!
Here I am, 2nd day of the summer holidays and I've not managed to do ANYTHING on my list! :-)
Mind you, I have arranged a "field trip" to a museum with friends for the end of the holidays, spoken to my Mum on the phone (a rare occurance these days) and arranged to meet up for a quick visit to the seaside, played with my 2 youngest (an even rarer occurance unfortunately) and watched my eldest pack herself up for Guide Camp! With MY socks I have to say......... apparantly all hers are "in the wash" ?!?!!
I really should have realised it was Friday after doing all that shouldn't I?!
So, onwards and upwards. My husband thinks he might have 2 days off together on Monday/Tuesday, BLISS!
Now I finally feel motivated to "get something done" (well. other than the washing, which seems to do itself......... I think sprog 1 has finally sussed out that just leaving her clothes in a heap by the washer just doesn't work! Lol!). I'll have to see if I can borrow the camera to show you my progress - or better yet, see if my earnings this month will stretch to getting MY camera fixed!
Oh the joy of having nowhere to be in a morning....... I can feel my stress and disillusion with life melting away a little at last!
Have a good week everyone - Rachel Anne, will you have the horse mural finished? It looks fabulous by the way! (Shame you live on the wrong side of the "pond"!) - come call again and I'll try to have the kettle on ready!
AM
Here I am, 2nd day of the summer holidays and I've not managed to do ANYTHING on my list! :-)
Mind you, I have arranged a "field trip" to a museum with friends for the end of the holidays, spoken to my Mum on the phone (a rare occurance these days) and arranged to meet up for a quick visit to the seaside, played with my 2 youngest (an even rarer occurance unfortunately) and watched my eldest pack herself up for Guide Camp! With MY socks I have to say......... apparantly all hers are "in the wash" ?!?!!
I really should have realised it was Friday after doing all that shouldn't I?!
So, onwards and upwards. My husband thinks he might have 2 days off together on Monday/Tuesday, BLISS!
Now I finally feel motivated to "get something done" (well. other than the washing, which seems to do itself......... I think sprog 1 has finally sussed out that just leaving her clothes in a heap by the washer just doesn't work! Lol!). I'll have to see if I can borrow the camera to show you my progress - or better yet, see if my earnings this month will stretch to getting MY camera fixed!
Oh the joy of having nowhere to be in a morning....... I can feel my stress and disillusion with life melting away a little at last!
Have a good week everyone - Rachel Anne, will you have the horse mural finished? It looks fabulous by the way! (Shame you live on the wrong side of the "pond"!) - come call again and I'll try to have the kettle on ready!
AM
Friday 16 July 2010
Red Sky at Night.......
Well, phew! :-)
What a week and a half this has been! The summer holidays are almost upon us and EVERYTHING is happening at once! Add to that my husband being away and I feel like I've been pulled in a million different directions at once!
But tonight I'm taking a breather - I have nowhere to be tomorrow, well, except for a little trip to the Guide shop for some badges for the end of term party, so I'm enjoying a re-run of an old sitcom where the main character reminds me SO much of my Dad and an old family friend and watching the beautiful pink sky!
BLISS! :-)
We've just had a huge thunderstorm, so everything smells wonderful and the light is fantastic, - clear and bright, yet mellow and soft all at the same time.
After all the ridiculously HOT days we've had over the last couple of weeks it's so good to feel cool and watch this light again!
SO, what HAVE we been up to since I last posted?
Hmmmmm.
Well, we've had a sports day that sprog 3 and I went to watch - briefly before she had a major paddy so we had to leave until she'd calmed down. Much to Sprog 2s disappointment!
A Sports day we didn't go to - Sprog 1 didn't really see the point as she wasnt' doing anything....... but came back and told us she'd come 4th in the 800m (Grrrr!)
A HUGE Guiding event for our Centenary, held at the nearby Safari Park. Over 2000 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Leaders all out for a good time, arriving in over 20 coaches...... poor animals didn't know WHAT had hit them! :-)
Errrmmmmm, oh, a Concert I didn't know was happening (don't you just love the teenage ability to not communicate! Lol!)
A Church Flower Festival where I entered my very first flower arrangement!
A new job! (Yeah!!!!)
A music exam for Sprog 1 - oh, and a maths exam taken 3 years early (hope to goodness she passes, don't think I can stand the angst again! Lol!)
.......... And no husband for the best part of this last month because he's been out on tour after tour!
PHEW!!!!
No wonder I'm shattered! Lol!
Roll on Wednesday - LAST DAY OF TERM!
I LOVE the Summer Holidays!
AM
What a week and a half this has been! The summer holidays are almost upon us and EVERYTHING is happening at once! Add to that my husband being away and I feel like I've been pulled in a million different directions at once!
But tonight I'm taking a breather - I have nowhere to be tomorrow, well, except for a little trip to the Guide shop for some badges for the end of term party, so I'm enjoying a re-run of an old sitcom where the main character reminds me SO much of my Dad and an old family friend and watching the beautiful pink sky!
BLISS! :-)
We've just had a huge thunderstorm, so everything smells wonderful and the light is fantastic, - clear and bright, yet mellow and soft all at the same time.
After all the ridiculously HOT days we've had over the last couple of weeks it's so good to feel cool and watch this light again!
SO, what HAVE we been up to since I last posted?
Hmmmmm.
Well, we've had a sports day that sprog 3 and I went to watch - briefly before she had a major paddy so we had to leave until she'd calmed down. Much to Sprog 2s disappointment!
A Sports day we didn't go to - Sprog 1 didn't really see the point as she wasnt' doing anything....... but came back and told us she'd come 4th in the 800m (Grrrr!)
A HUGE Guiding event for our Centenary, held at the nearby Safari Park. Over 2000 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Leaders all out for a good time, arriving in over 20 coaches...... poor animals didn't know WHAT had hit them! :-)
Errrmmmmm, oh, a Concert I didn't know was happening (don't you just love the teenage ability to not communicate! Lol!)
A Church Flower Festival where I entered my very first flower arrangement!
A new job! (Yeah!!!!)
A music exam for Sprog 1 - oh, and a maths exam taken 3 years early (hope to goodness she passes, don't think I can stand the angst again! Lol!)
.......... And no husband for the best part of this last month because he's been out on tour after tour!
PHEW!!!!
No wonder I'm shattered! Lol!
Roll on Wednesday - LAST DAY OF TERM!
I LOVE the Summer Holidays!
AM
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