Wednesdays are an important night round here. Torchwood is on. And it’s on at 9pm. And before that Masterchef is on. So for just one night a week we try really hard to have dinner ready for 830pm so we’re sitting down to eat for Masterchef and noone has to miss any of either show because they’re still cooking. Except we never, never manage it. Ever.
Until tonight that is.
Buoyed up by the sorting of the childcare for next week, the moves towards healthy happy elective time away from each other and topping up of Masterplan energy at 515pm I set a schedule. Ady and the children were very on board with this idea. Ady because he got to echo everything I said in a comedy style way and the kids because it involved ice cream. And a bath. And a story.
1715hours eat toast and tidy up geomags
1730hours eat ice cream while a bath is run for junior Goddards
1745hours get in bath. Enjoy waterbased fun without soaking bathroom floor or arguing about mermaid barbie or who had the doctor who flannel last
1800hours exit bath. enter pjs. snuggle on sofa for stories while bath is run for senior Goddards.
1830hours – storytime ends. Prolonged bedtime commences with various demands to be carried to bed like a horsey / come and tuck you in / requests for hot water bottles / drinks of water / blankets etc. Also included in schedule is three dashes to the bathroom each, hopefully coinciding with each other so that despite the fact we do have two toilets you can squabble about who is using which one.
1900hours bath for me
1930hours cook dinner (potato gratin, pork chops, cider and mustard sauce and asparagus – lovely 🙂 Bath for Ady.
2030 sit down with dinner to enjoy televisual feast that is Masterchef followed by Torchwood followed by next weeks Torchwood on BBC3 as we won’t be around next Wednesday to watch it then.
And we stuck to it. And it worked. Am scheduling genuis.
your kids spend 15 minutes in the bath?? mine stays in there for hours!! 😆
Comment by Liza — 21 February 2008 @ 1:03 am
Well yes normally they would too, but we were on a schedule! 😆
Comment by Nic — 21 February 2008 @ 10:44 am
I seem to be unable to stick to schedules, however hard I try it just doesn’t work 😆
Impressed with your healthy happy time away thing, I’m unable to do that one too.
Comment by Liza — 21 February 2008 @ 2:04 pm