God you’re brave – or mad! Spent all day long with your kids when you could just pack ’em off to school and let someone else deal with them for seven hours a day and enusre they learn, eat lunch, play nice with the other kids, run off all the excess energy in a controlled and confined way then collect them, stick them infront of CBBC for a couple of hours, shove some chicken nuggets at them and perhaps read them a bedtime story.
You know what, they might be onto something these school educators! 🙂
Today has been a shouty, shrieky, tired, headachey, can’t see straight, don’t mess with me kinda day. Delivery arrived from Hawkins and the kids grabbiness at every item as soon as I pulled it out of the parcel annoyed me so much I told them it was all for me and put it away on high up shelves, a big package arrived from the QCA which looks very interesting and I would have sat and read were I not packing both children off to boarding school TIL THEY ARE AT LEAST 27 first thing tomorrow morning!. Davies did a really nice magic maize picture, then trod soggy stuff all through the house leaving purple stains on the hall carpet and Scarlett finally got dressed at about 3pm.
Have done various paperworky and phonecally things like sort out Tarly’s £250 handout voucher into an account, tried to get tickets to see Richard Herring (and failed!), sorted out booking lunch out for everyone on Sunday for Mothers Day (just need to get the card and gift for mine now) and all but cleared my email inbox. I have had an email from someone local wanting more info on HE and have managed to compose a chatty bouncy email back (god that was an effort!) which keeps bouncing – and with no other way of getting hold of them I am feeling bad that their first tentative enquiry into the world of HE may be met with silence 🙁
Going to have a big bath, drink wine and go to bed early. Have already discussed with Davies how we can both make tomorrow a better day.
I know those days well!
Life like that here atm hence the quiteness of my blog except it’s me getting packed off to boarding school.
Enjoy your bath and plonk 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 28 February 2005 @ 7:24 pm
Mmmmmmmmmm chicken nuggets 😉
Comment by leandra — 28 February 2005 @ 8:33 pm
I have had red wine cure today!!
Comment by helen and chris F — 28 February 2005 @ 10:31 pm
Grass is always greener … you’d have crap days even if they were at school. Still, I know exactly how you feel … hope tomorrow is better.
Comment by Sarah — 01 March 2005 @ 12:14 am