For just not paying any attention the first time they were asked nicely, the second time perhaps with a slight edge to my voice, the third time with threats of getting cross, the fourth time with the threatened crossness, oh and then back to the beginning again half an hour later 🙁 Grr!
One of those days which could have been saved perhaps if I’d been able to stop everything i wanted / had to get done and dedicate myself to dealing with every skirmish as it arose. But then again that might still have resulted in putting them up for adoption, considering breaking them down for parts and flogging them on ebay or simply running away from home myself!
The ‘Plan’ was that I would spend an hour getting the last CVs done and emailed across first thing this morning. They were watching the dinosaur video again and then chose Robots on dvd so it should have all worked perfectly. Except, the kept irritating the hell out of each of by getting toys, not sharing them, trying to play with each others stuff, making too much noise and drowning out the video and so on. I got more and more hacked off with them and shoutier and shoutier 🙁 So I did get the CVs done but they had both been sent to their rooms at least twice each, my throat was actually sore from yelling and I had absolutely no desire to spend the afternoon doing nice stuff with them at all.
We headed off to Sainsburys to get various bits and pieces for the rest of the week and they managed to redeem themselves and behave there so when we got home while they played with some k’nex I made some salt dough for Home Ed group tomorrow (theme is Autumn and I have a half plan to do some sort of dough craft in the style of country kitchens and create corn dolly / scarecrow, faux bread and fruit wreath type creations which can be dried and painted) with the aim of bringing some out for them to play with and doing something with them. They actually played really nicely for about an hour in the end so I didn’t distract them and got on with making a toffee apple pie too (yum!).
By the time they had realised what I was up to they had blown their chances of salt dough play by misbehaving again so we ended up having early tea for them followed by apple pie watching Green Eggs and Ham.
Ady arrived home just in time to witness / instigate further irrational tantrumming from a very tired Davies who is about to fall asleep and then I will go and get tonights dinner sorted (toad in the hole with red onion, garlic and herbs, served with mini roast potatoes, sweetcorn and gravy for those interested in such things). Not even a wine evening 🙁
Tomorrow is mad Wednesday with something scheduled every half an hour or something so that will either distract them from their mardiness or blow up in my face as they melt down with a large audience! 😉
Sending you virtual chardonnay!
Comment by Jenny — 04 October 2005 @ 8:59 pm
“Not even a wine evening”
Sounds like you deserve one though- is your wine rota flexible?
I’m out of gin and home alone 🙁
Comment by Heather — 04 October 2005 @ 9:41 pm
Thanks Jen, see you tomorrow x
Comment by Nic — 04 October 2005 @ 10:18 pm
Well the wine rota is supposed to be firm but hilariously when I went to the chiller to get some appletize out to drink from a wine glass and pretend with I found a half tin of Stella that Ady had opened without thinking and then tried to conceal! So I have enjoyed being smug about ‘people who can’t survive an evening without alcohol’ instead! 🙂
Comment by Nic — 04 October 2005 @ 10:20 pm
so what *is* the wine rota – weekends only? That’s what I’m planning on instigating here when I get round to drinking again …
hope today is better, anyway 🙂
Comment by Sarah — 05 October 2005 @ 7:02 am
yes, drinking on Friday, Saturday and Sunday only. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are alcohol free zones. Of course we seem to manage to find an excuse for at least one of those days every week. Last week I had a glass of wine at the Home Ed meeting on Wed night, and Ady had had a beer cos he was left home alone, on Thursday it was the funeral so we’d been drinking since we got home at 5pm ish!
Ady had one last night so he’s already failed although he swears it was an accidental oversight and he opened it through habit rather than rebellion 😉
TBH I’m not really sure why we’re bothering, if we were managing to stick to any sort of diet then it would make sense to limit alcohol too but as we seem to be eating more and having dessert every night to make up for not having a drink we are probably going to end up even more lardy as a result!
Comment by Nic — 05 October 2005 @ 8:25 am