I feel like I repeat myself which this shit weekly, but guys, it's fucking May! It's week 4 of term 2 already, and we're hurtling towards mid year... What in the world?!
Things I achieved this week:
- Washing Queen
- See amazing portrait paintings for Percival Prize
- Car research
- Sheets washed and changed
- Juffin application writing
- Sister chats
- Hill walking
- Fit into dress haven't been able to wear for 3 years
- Floors
- Flash child free dinner
- Quality family time
- Not die after alcohol consumption
Mushroom is still carrying on for school drop off and citing various reasons for his bullshit behaviour. Have had a few chats with his teacher who's all over it so crossing fingers this is yet another phase and school will improve again. This morning was more to do with being jealous because Molly and Mum were staying home and he wanted to as well so he could play lego and watch TV. Don't blame you there mate. We had a good chat about it, school being his job now etc and obviously life means doing things that may be hard but you'll get to your goal in the end. And his current goal is become a Scientist, "so I can do 'speriments' all the time". Brilliant. Not so brilliant is his behaviour at school because basically he thinks it's fucking social hour over there and talks to anyone who will listen, like will not stop talking. To anyone. Teacher included. And, I'll be really sexist here, like a typical man, cannot seem to multitask and work at the same time so is not getting any work done as a result. None.
Ugh.
I know that you all think that this is hilarious given my particular fondness for chit chat. Talk about chip off the old block! Seriously though, if he doesn't start focusing soon, I will lose my shit. Juffin and I had a chat tonight and we've decided to limit the TV time to the weekend. We're both guilty of putting it on when we need some down time and that's a bullshit cop out so we're both going to work on being more present, spending time outside and actually playing. I will need to hit Kmart for some crafting supplies and we'll set up a little activity corner for them so they can go nuts. Yes, the cleaning up will suck but maybe they'll have longer attention spans as a result. One can only try these things but something has to change. My boy is clever, he just needs to stop talking and focus.... god that feels like karma at work right there! Haha!
My folks came to visit for the weekend and it was so lovely having them here. I'm blessed with parents and parents in law that actually want to spend time with their grandchildren. They happily babysit, even during the week, and luckily we've had a few sleepovers as well. I know that they've already raised their kids, but they're only too happy to help out when we need. Some are not so lucky and it's just really sad. Working full time is exhausting, I get that, but helping out your kids by taking care of your grandkids for a day or two over the school holidays, picking them up from school or daycare, taking them for a night over the weekend so they can get some sleep, that's not too much to ask is it? Apparently for some it is. And that fucking sucks.
 |
| Art |
 |
| Best of a bad bunch! Kids did not participate well in photo taking |
I did get the hill done with the rents over the weekend, but haven't done an actual work out in almost a week. I really do just need to get out of bed earlier but my constant late night's lately hasn't helped me there. I've also been plagued by headaches and I think it's directly related to my lax attitude to sugar, namely lollies, and carbs in the last few days. I almost attempted hill walk with Molly today but couldn't bear to listen to the whingeing.. which really is redundant as listen to her whingeing all day every damn day... ahh 2 year olds, aren't they the best?
 |
| Worth the slog up there for this view! |
No comments:
Post a Comment