and I didn’t have to cross anyone’s palm with silver or anything 😉
Today I have made up the new bookcase for Tarly’s room, tidied her room up completely, going through all her clothes and sorting them into categories of ‘wear now, while the weather is crap and before she grows out of them!’, ‘ready to wear this summer (and my god what a huge pile that is!)’, ‘ready for later this year’ and ‘stuff my Mum has bought for heer up to the age of about 7!’. Have yet to actually fill the bookcase but it does all look much more ordered and there are now places to put stuff away in there as opposed to piling things up. Playroom is all but done so the next stage is Davies’ bedroom which we have promised him we will redecorate to his choosing too – and lose a sofa in there which is never sat upon by anyone other than toys from Toy Story and takes up lots of playing space.
I have also been round the blogs, made lunch, spoken to Jenny on the phone, made a phonecall sorting out a booking error with our group venue and booked verbally for the next month, followed that up in writing, replied to all but one email in my in box and done lots more thinking about ‘stuff’. Also wasted about half an hour trying to find something for the link I never did in yesterdays post about Tarly’s sling / hip carrier thing. Glad I still have the instructions otherwise I would start to believe it is wrongly labelled as I cannot find it anywhere on the internet so it turned into a personal challenge as opposed to simply finding a link to slot in! If anyone else wants to have a go it’s a Lindam comfi carry 🙂 Clearly will be ‘able to flog it for a fortune on ebay when I’m done with it due to it’s rare and hallowed status!
Sp while I’ve been doing all this the kids have been pretty much entertaining themselves, which is what I meant about a peep into the future. Davies got himself dressed, Tarly used the potty and got herself undressed, they played with the dressing up stuff then took themselves up to Davies’ bedroom and played up there for ages. They have watched their Tumble Tots dvd and sung and danced along with it, they have had all the musical instruments out and performed some sort of show with them. They played some game with the discarded cardboard box from the bookcase and also spent ages jumping off the sofa! They are now playing with the Bob the builder toys and Davies just staggered me by watching the alphabet thingy they sometimes do in ad breaks on Nick jr (D is for Dora, T is for Thomas, L is for Little Bill etc) and knowing all of them! 🙂 Anyway, where I’m going with all this is that I can see that over time my role is gradually going to change from childcarer to one of their many educational resources – and it’s very exciting and reassuring to think that it won’t be too many more years before they can largely get on with it themselves, leaving me to largely get on with whatever it is I decide I want to be getting on with, which is what I have been contemplating.
Ali and I were talking abotu structure to our lives yesterday and it struck me that having worked very hard to get here we are now at a place where our week has a fairly good routine with time built in for ticking all the boxes educationally and meeting all our needs. What we possibly still need to do a bit of work on is getting our days into such a routine. I know I spend too much time online avoiding other stuff I would rather not do. I think it’s time to shed some stuff I seem to feel some obligation to do but am getting nothing out of or really dislike doing to make some time for stuff which I do want to do or enjoy doing. Now if there was just a way to make money from blogging…..
Don’t your google adds bring in a couple of pennies? I agree with others that you should write a book. What about a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek ‘what people don’t tell you about he’ book?
Comment by Barbara — 24 May 2005 @ 8:09 pm
google ads only bring in money if people click on them and then buy (I think – should check the T&Cs!) which given I only have 30 people reading the blog, and the ads mainly seem to be about blogs or mental health! possibly won’t allow me to consider early retirement 🙂
Am thinking about the writing stuff and whether there is any earning potential in a very competitive market. HE would seem a good subject matter but I’m not sure how much of a niche market that is and whether any of the big publishers would be interested…
Comment by Nic — 24 May 2005 @ 8:51 pm
I hadn’t even noticed the Google ads………., then again I don’t click on them anyway.
Avoiging things by ‘putering, wwwweeeelllll…………. 🙂
Comment by Chris F — 24 May 2005 @ 11:33 pm