You’re driving me to insanity…

Well today should have been a nice day. The sun shone, we had things to do, places to go, people to see etc.

Davies was irritating me within about half an hour of getting up by being whingey and baiting Scarlett and having to be asked about 15 times to do the simplest of tasks. As so often is the case with my two if one is being horrid the other is positively angelic which somehow perpetuates the problem as you end up showering the angelic one with praise and gratitude which makes the terrorising one all the worse trying to wrestle some attention back and so on 🙁

Managed to get them out the house only about 15 minutes late and arrived at PYO to meet up with Mel, Liam and Lily. Tractor ride between fields and we picked raspberries, sweetcorn, cooking apples and strawberries. (Tomorrow I have a sort of plan to do some baking – some meringues to go with the berries, which also means I will have to use the yolks to make Layla’s fab pain au chocolat pudding and some toffee apple pies – might be a bit ambitious though 🙂 )

Then we went to Highdown Gardens for a picnic and run about including some tree climbing 🙂

Mel and I managed a bit of chatting but TBH it was probably more me whinging about Davies than anything else. Came home
and seemed to randomly shout at him some more before sending him to bed in disgrace when Ady got home.

Then in a fit of housewifelyness I went and changed our bedclothes and put loads of washing away, went into his room where he was sobbing into his pillow and did a huge monologue about how instead of lying there feeling sorry for himself perhaps he should feel sorry for me having tried to give him a nice day today and ending up shouting at him instead, how I don’t work because we are HEing instead, how we spent a lot of money on this weekend and he was ungrateful, greedy, unsociable and generally badly behaved and that all I am trying to do is give him a nice childhood but it keeps getting flung back in my face. I told him to lay there and think about that and if he wanted to come and say anything to me then I would be happy to hear it. Within about 5 minutes he was in my room apologising. We both cried, he assured me that he will try harder and I assured him I would too and then I went through all his clothes taking out anything he’s grown out of for an ebay pile and mentally compiling a ‘Davies needs for Autumn’ shopping list which was happily quite a lot less than I had thought 🙂 Will do Tarly’s room tomorrow as we are planning to get her a wardrobe tomorrow afternoon (she has only got drawers at the moment and they are on their last legs).

I’ve been feeling a bit neglectful of everything in my real life (yes I do have one 😉 of late so I think I need to make a bit more effort to get something done every day for both the kids and the house and me. I would pretend I will be around less online but that’s stupid – I will just try and be a bit more sensible about when I’m online so it is not compromising other, more important stuff 🙂

With that in mind tomorrow I will get Tarly’s room sorted, maybe do some baking and make an appointment to get my hair cut and ring the woman who may have work for me which is totally realistic to do from home.