One is good and one is a nightmare!
It’s been a crappy day generally here although not without highlights. I got another CV in the post (bring ’em on!) and Davies has been lovely and wonderful all day long. The sun shone although it has been cold and I got four loads of washing dry. We’ve got home made curry for dinner which I’m really looking forward to and it is Wednesday already tomorrow.
Scarlett has been, erm, challenging in her behaviour today. I won’t catalogue her crimes but they were many and varied. And yes she is only 3 and yes some of it was likely attention seeking and yes I am the parent and her behaviour is a reflection of my parenting and yes I am tired and feel crap so I probably over reacted to some things and placed high and unfair expectations on her and yes the law says that when one child is being lovely the other has to behave like devil spawn to compensate but really… I spent the day veering between wanting to stick her on Freecycle as free to collector and coming with many pink accessories and feeling like the biggest failure of a mother out. 🙄 Still not sure which one of us I blame really, it’ s a tie!
When they had already both been sent to their rooms for little more than just breathing and therefore irritating me, I was a sobbing heap on the sofa and it was not yet 11am Davies came back into the lounge having gathered up a selection of his cuddliest of cuddly toys and my pillow. He arranged the toys and my pillow around me, wiped a tear away and told me how much he loved me. He is so his father’s son that boy! 🙂 So I decided we could continue in the same vein or attempt to resuce the day.
We went to Blockbusters to get some films and some popcorn with the idea of just sitting on the sofa for the day cuddling and watching.
We were thinking of renting Corpse Bride but it is £3,75 for two nights or you could buy an ex rental copy for £5.99 so guess which we did? 😳 Then we chose 3 from their 3 dvds, 5 pounds, 7 nights range. Davies chose a Dr Seuss cartoon one (Horton hatches an egg, Daisy Head Mayzee and others), I talked them into Matilda and Scarlett was perilously close to a Barbie and Pegasus or other such twaddle so I steered her towards Alice in Wonderland which I have been reading to her recently and she dropped the pink one like a brick – hurrah! 🙂
We came home and had toasted muffins for lunch, followed by lots of popcorn and watched Corpse Bride and the Dr Seuss one. That was about 2.5 hours and by then Davies wanted to draw pictures of all the new characters he’d fallen for and Scarlett decided she’d sat still and been good for long enough and wanted to rampage and destruct some more. I had a very ambitious and frankly stupid idea that I might lie on the sofa for a restorative nap but that didn’t happen!
Scarlett was retrieved from her room for her tea which they both ate by which time Ady had returned home, also feeling crappy with the cold we all now have and fed up from a tiresome managers meeting.
Plan tomorrow is to go to a scrapstore in Portsmouth I have just joined with a local-ish HE group. We’re supposed to be taking Mum along too and then I would imagine we’ll have associated activties in the afternoon dependant on what we gather from said scrapstore.
Tired, fed up, feel pants, crap mother. Feel free to insert my name in brackets in the box below!
((((Nic)))
Always important to respond to a request of that sort.
I think my children have possibly forgotten they have a monther this last week or two, so you are probably still one up on that. 🙂
Comment by Merry — 04 April 2006 @ 7:31 pm
I need a serious scrap store for something I have planned so let me know what it’s like!
Comment by Roslyn — 04 April 2006 @ 7:33 pm
Aw ((((((((((Nic)))))))))))))
Tomorrow sounds promising though 🙂
Comment by Alison — 04 April 2006 @ 7:43 pm
lots of hugs nic. not a crap mother! just one who today needed a break.
Comment by HelenHaricot — 04 April 2006 @ 11:15 pm
))))))NIC((((((
Comment by Paul McCartney — 05 April 2006 @ 9:13 am
What are you doing there Paul? Gut-barging Nic?
Comment by Alison — 05 April 2006 @ 3:07 pm