on all the deep thinking, the blogging, the being frugal and the getting the house straight really 🙁
Had a nice enough day today although Davies seemed hell bent on being shouted at almost constantly and just could not seem to behave.
Ady went off to work at 7am but was back by 10am to find one child in their room in disgrace and the other being threatened with all the pens and crayons going in the bin unless they helped tidy them up (they had after all scattered them all around three rooms), which was making the banished to their room child wail about the pens going in the bin 🙁
Anyway.
Managed to get everyone out of the house shortly after 11 including Tarly in pants and no nappy for an experiment in whether she was ready or not. Turns out she was, well today anyway. Although she did wet them pretty much as soon as we got back in the house as she didn’t make it to the potty and get them down in time. Bless. I’ve been quite remiss with potty training her really, she was probably ready ages ago but it just seemed like such a faff I had waited til she was totally ready on the basis we would not have many accidents and I would not have to do that whole carting round a potty, three changes of clothing and a ‘caution. wet surface’ sign at all times in case of slip ups in Tescos 🙂
Went to the local bank holiday market at the beach. I used to go there *every* bank holiday when I was younger and always used to buy piles of tat. This time I felt saddened at what a chav capital the town we live in seems to have become watching everyone wander round yelling at their kids called Wayne and Kylie, chain smoking, wearing cheap white garments and toting their unmuzzled dangerous dog behind them! Kids got a cheap plastic toy each and I bought some scoubidou stuff which I have been coveting having a ‘play’ with since HESFES 🙂
Came home via the chip shop for chips to make chip butties with for lunch, got wet in a heavy shower of bank holiday weather and the Ady sat and fell asleep infront of some crappy old film while I did drawing and colouring with the kids. I then did the weeks Sainsburys shop to get it out of the way for the week while he put Monsters Inc on for the kids, got out the playdough and tasked them with creating some of the monsters they saw in the film 🙂
When I got back I tackled the bookcases and did a bit more to Davies’ room. We now have all the childrens books either in Tarly’s or Davies’ room. All of the educational books are on the main bookcase with Maths, English and Science on one shelf, History, Geography, Spanish, Religion and misc on another. Just need to do the four shelves of other books and it will be done. Realised while doing it just how many reference style books and early reader sets we have acquired (mainly from the Book People) and have a few seeds of ideas for projecty things to start sometime soon floating around my head which I might try and get down somewhere sometime (neeeeeed those extra pages :-).
Ady bathed the kids and we packed them off to bed, Davies didn’t fall asleep til gone 9 and Tarly was probably still awake at 8ish so fingers crossed for a good night (although we are probably due a bad one, she has fallen into a new habit of sleeping through but rising for the day really early – pre 9am – which is still preferable to being up for hours during the night I guess).
And that’s all. It felt boring to type so I would imagine is boring to read 🙂
Well, having spent every bank holiday including Xmas and new Year by myself for the last 5 years or so, I’ve come to the conclusion they are sadly over-rated, with far too high expectations for a good family time. It’s a relief to have them over, so that one feels justified in reverting to type 😉
Comment by Joyce — 30 May 2005 @ 11:08 pm
And yes – those book people sets – just too tempting, and too often not used.
Comment by Joyce — 30 May 2005 @ 11:08 pm
yeah, bugger the bank holidays 🙂 still only one left before Christmas now!
And you, Joyce, oh Book People tout – I went and placed an order as a result of your post today !!
Comment by Nic — 30 May 2005 @ 11:13 pm