In the shape of spending money on face creams, PMT treatments and sleep inducing sprays and temple balms 🙂 A jumper for Davies (his choice of pressie 🙂 ) and a bathtime marble run for Tarly which I will bring out tomorrow.
In the shape of spending a couple of hours in the company of other normal, Home Educating mothers talking about the state of our mental health in direct corrolation to our sleep deprivation levels, the time of year and a challening few weeks post Melrose euphoria mixed with pox anticipation and quarantine, snow but not enough to play in and several other businessy things to give head space to.
In the shape of Ady arriving home early and a brief snatched chat deciding to give some sort of sleep thingy a go (neither child in our bed, once in bed they have to stay in their bedrooms even if we end up staying in them too). A slight tricky moment when we debated how it was going to work;
A: I have to drive each day, I NEED to sleep
N: I have to look after the kids each day – unless I get sleep I will be one of the stories in Take A Break about a seemingly happy everyday woman who one day lost it and my neighbours will all have to be interviewed about how I always seemed to cheerful when they saw me with the kids
A: OK – maybe I can go in to work late if I am up in the night and shift my day around a bit.
So that’s our plan – not sure who will be doing what yet and maybe the kids will sleep through anyway now we have a cunning plan but I do at least feel we have taken positive action.
Wednesday I am going to meet with Boss Lady – which will be a nice day out and will also lead to some paid employment, there is a job in the paper I am going to apply for too and I am feeling positive about getting back into some sort of career somehow this year.
Education? We watched the schools programmes and Davies did really well with the look and read type shows – maths went a bit over his head and I think we need to dig out the Exeter Maths books to start some sort of structure on that one. Feel quite relaxed about HE though – last of my worries 🙂
Just getting it all back in perspective, having a plan and the promise of a child free few hours has made the sun come out again 🙂
Glad to hear the sun is out at your place, bit grey here, but I think that it’s got something to do with sleep deprivation, interview induced stress and forgetting to eat…
Comment by jax — 02 March 2005 @ 6:15 pm
what is perspective again?? glad you’ve found yours!
Comment by helen and chris F — 02 March 2005 @ 9:02 pm
i read the last bit wrong, i thought it said “child free stew…”
Comment by Merry — 02 March 2005 @ 9:30 pm
pmsl – never a child free stew – they add to the flavour 🙂
Comment by Nic — 02 March 2005 @ 9:47 pm