There are half days at kindy this week and that means a lot of to-and-fro-ing. Next week I will hopefully be able to get back into rhythm. Grant is still recovering from his illness and slowly over the period he has been unwell things have slipped here as I have been trying to give him a rest.
Play groups are back on, school is back. I help with a church mothers group and another community mothers group. I have decided to step down from the community one as I have a few other things in the pipeline this year with church and I need to be very careful about how many balls I have in the air. One thing I have learnt throughout the various stages of my life is my limits. There can only be so much I have on the go or it quickly unravels into total chaos. Not unlike the night before school started.......
Williams new teacher is going to think we are total idiots....He has a giant pencil case when she specifically said small, as dear old day dreamer Will got his message confused and clearly zoned out some where between "pencil case" and "large" and missed every word prior to those and after, most importantly missing the word "not" as in "not large".
When getting his school bag down I quickly realized William hadn't emptied his lunch bag like I asked at the end of term.... It wasn't pretty after 6 weeks of school holidays....it was so bad I'm was stuck washing his school bag at 10:00pm the night before school starts..... fortunately it was dry by morning.....and the lunch bag is waaayyy beyond salvage and had to be tossed.
Then the contacting of the books has gone from bad to worse. We got
giant bubbles in the first, so we were trying hard not to scar our child
by having bubbly books (because who wants to be THAT mum right?!) so we
were DETERMINED to do better. This time I decided to stick the front
cover sheet on the contact first and then lay the book carefully on it
with tape joining them. Thus ensuring no gaping of the paper and a
smooth transfer of contact.....it was a sound plan, really it
was.....but some how I was concentrating so hard on trying to avoid
bubbles I managed to put the label page on back-to-front and upside
down......
Me being me found the entire growing ridiculousness of the situation hilarious. I absolutely howled with laughter and had tears streaming down my face as I gasped to get a breath. So much so I woke a sleeping Henry who was down the other end of the house. Meanwhile grant looked at me like I was perhaps the dumbest person he had ever seen. 7 years of tertiary education between us and we still can't cover books.....#parentingfail #youmarriedme #welcometoyr2. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Me being me found the entire growing ridiculousness of the situation hilarious. I absolutely howled with laughter and had tears streaming down my face as I gasped to get a breath. So much so I woke a sleeping Henry who was down the other end of the house. Meanwhile grant looked at me like I was perhaps the dumbest person he had ever seen. 7 years of tertiary education between us and we still can't cover books.....#parentingfail #youmarriedme #welcometoyr2. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
