Davies has had a really really bad day 🙁 I genuinely think he has not been able to help himself but he has been yelled at so many times today, wound both me and Ady up and really struggled to do anything right bless him. He’s just been behaving really stupidly, doing really unthought-through stunts like throwing scissors and frankly it is probably some sort of minor miracle that all four of us are still here and largely sane!
Ady and Davies went out this morning to Tescos to join the many many other fathers and children frantically buying up flowers and trinkets such as socks, mugs and picture frames with ‘worlds best mum’ emblazoned on them. Scarlett had a lovely tantrum while they were gone which came out of quite quickly and said sorry for so that was entertaining! They got back in time for lunch and have been doing various bits and pieces in between all the being silly. Davies wrote in the card to my Mum for tomorrow so badly that we binned it – he has been able to write a recognisable version of his own name for the best part of a year now and what he produced today was frankly crap. Ady lost it with him too and took him off into another room with a big pile of paper and a pen to sit there until they nailed it. And it did work actually 🙂 So they made a replacement card which he had written in much better.
I have done a bit of reading to Scarlett, a bit of puzzles and that’s about it really. I have been working on my laptop ploughing through the second half of my online course which has suddenly leapt from easy and a bit boring to hugely challenging and interesting. The current asssessment involves getting my head round HTML and the euphoria of getting three paragraphs of text in different colours and different font sizes was a joy to achieve 🙂 I’m not at all sure whether I am giving enough to the assessments I have completed today – I have done little more than bare minimum but similarly I don’t want to go turning in pages and pages of work when a couple of lines is sufficient. Will have to wait and see what the feedback is like when it’s been marked.
I nipped out this afternoon with the intention of getting an hour or so to myself but could not really summon up the energy to do so. I ended up taking a video and book back to the library but not bothering to get anything else out, posting a few bits but not the parcel I have for Helen as the post office shuts at lunchtime and not getting anything with the World book day vouchers the kids have as the shop didn’t have the special books and I would rather let the kids choose their own if we are going to redeem them against something.
My friend Vicky appeared for ten minutes this afternoon too – have not seen her since we moved back home, prior to that the last time we saw her was at our wedding. She had a little girl last summer who I have yet to meet. She is going back to work soon and looking forward to it – her baby is booked to start the nursery attached to the local primary school and she is pretty desperate to get back to her old life I think. She said she’d ring for a proper chat soon and arrange to get together but I do think that instead of her being a mother now too bringing us closer together again it will actually only serve to give us less in common in our attitudes to the whole motherhood approach. Ah well!
And that was about it really. Tomorrow we have a big family lunch at Frankie and Bennys in Brighton. One opened near to us in Manchester and we had several very nice meals there so I am hopeful that the food will be good and the service good too the same as the one up there. Mum, Dad, Frazer and Granny are coming too – so lunch for 8. There are a myriad of things which could go horribly wrong when you add in four generations of females (one bitter old woman who has issues with her daughter’s choice of husband, her grand-daughters weight and her great grand-daughters attitude, one fighting middle age tooth and nail woman who hates her mother, tries really hard to mend bridges with her daughter and cannot find any common ground with her grand-daughter so fawns all over her grandson instead, a two year old who will be on top form with such an audience and me 🙂 ) and then the male half of the party – two son in laws both dining out with their mother in laws, my Dad who will probably make the most of the situation by winding up everyone, my brother who will sink into the background given half a chance and Davies who is either coming down with something or is undergoing a personality transplant into a candidate for ‘Brat Camp goes pre-school’. I have no expectations 🙂 But it would make a good sitcom 😉
My turn to do the night shift with Tarly so I may well be up for chatting around 2am 🙂 anybody? 🙂
And finally -incase I am not around tomorrow HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to you all – you are wonderful mothers and deserve to celebrate that well 🙂 xxx
Good luck for tommorrow…..and I’m afrid at 7 Poppy still wrecks cards with her saved-up-worst-hand- a way to go before we can trust them on that front me thinks!!!
Comment by heather — 05 March 2005 @ 9:32 pm
Thank you. suspect you will be the only one wishing me Happy Mother’s day as none of my lot thought to go near tescos to buy stuff. Mother’s day is always way too close to my birthday!
Comment by Sarah — 06 March 2005 @ 8:10 am
Perhaps that’s the problem here too Sarah (sigh)
Comment by Jan — 06 March 2005 @ 8:03 pm