Sunday morning madness – little girls, gamecubes, smash brothers and tantrums
Video of our house – a typical Sunday morning…
Tantrums, Tears, and Laptop Computers
Here goes – shot with the iPod Nano, starring our youngest, and co-starring the next oldest.
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The School Barbecue
This afternoon we all trooped off to one of the several events throughout the year at the primary school two of our girls attend. Well… troop is somewhat of an exaggeration, given the tantrum I had to deal with en-route.
It started 15 minutes before we were due to leave the house. Our youngest was told to [...]
The Morning the Smile Slipped
Before going to bed last night, we talked to the children about them getting dressed as soon as they woke in the morning – rather than waiting for us to “help” them (our helping tends to become “we get them dressed”). At the same time as trying to offload some of the things we do [...]
One of those days…
Today was one of those days when it doesn’t just feel like all you’ve done is tell the children off all day – you know it’s all you’ve done all day.
After various escapades throughout the day (when I was trying desperately to work in our study), the middle daughter capped off her day’s performance while [...]
The Weekend Rolls to a Stop
I don’t really recall what weekends used to be like.
Mine was pretty much filled with washing up, tidying up, more washing up, more tidying up, shopping for emergency groceries, shopping for emergency groceries again, interspersed with playing with the children, and repeatedly telling them off.
Do you ever have days – or entire weekends – when [...]
Four Months with Children
I just realised – it’s now been four months since the end of our two year odyssey through the various hurdles and high jumps of the social services system. Four months since little people invaded our house for the first time. Four months that seems like a very long time ago now.
The children have confounded [...]
Surrendering to Illness
I haven’t been well for a week or so – but had so far just kept going – got on with things – carried on. This morning I woke with very little voice (but a very good Russel Crowe/Gladiator impersonation), a head filled with snot, and very little energy. Not exactly condusive to going to [...]
The Case of the Sister's Slippers
Picture the scene – eldest daughter is watching Superman on DVD (for the first time), younger two fell asleep within a few minutes of the start of the movie, but now the middle child – she of infinite scheming – has woken up, and is bored.
Middle child dissappears.
Eldest continues to be goggle eyed at the [...]
Travelling with Work
I’m setting my alarm for 5am tomorrow morning. I’ll leave the house at 6, and with a little luck (subject to the railway and taxi gods), I’ll arrive on-site sometime around 9am. Emergency hotel accommodation is being arranged just in case tomorrow goes badly.
If I do end up staying overnight, it will be the first [...]
