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Wondrous Weekend (Wishful Thinking)

Posted by Deb on Sunday October 21, 2007 at 10:10 pm

I would like to post about our exciting weekend, to tell you about all the interesting and stimulating activities we’ve undertaken. I’d love to tell you how we spent the weekend bonding as a family, enjoying each other’s company and engaging in amusing pursuits.

Unfortunately I can’t. Well, I could, but I won’t, to quote Mark Twain (or somebody).

I spent almost all of yesterday in the dining-room, surrounded by teetering piles of paper, sorting, categorising, allocating, grouping, organising, ordering and filing. The boys spent most of the day entertaining themselves, which seems to have involved a great deal of sitting in front of a flickering screen, and Scratchy spent his time feeling sorry for himself because he was sick. By the evening, despite not having been in the same room for five minutes, he had shared his germs with me, so after dragging myself out of bed this morning for long enough to nearly finish clearing the dining-room table, I dragged myself back to bed. I got up later and had a hot bath, but it didn’t do any good. I mean, it made me clean, but it didn’t make me feel any better.

We don’t have a bath in the master bathroom - just a shower - so I had my bath in the kids’ bathroom. You really know you’re a mother when, while your bath runs, you clear the bathroom floor, clean the toilet, hang up the towels, put away the bath-toys and water the plant on the window-sill. It could have been worse - I have been known to clean the reachable bits of the bathroom while I was actually in the bath.

Toby has finally fallen asleep, at 10 p.m. He’s at that awkward stage where he doesn’t always need a nap, and so often sleeps late in the day, resulting in him being bright-eyed and bouncy-tailed long after me. Jack is also coming down with whatever this bug is, so he’s doing his usual thing of starting to wail as soon as I sit down or lie down. I really hope he’s better tomorrow, because I am so not in the right place to be dealing with a day of it.

In: family, life, rants and moans

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Comment by alison
2007-10-21 23:47:58

I got Scratchy’s bug too. Hope you feel better tomorrow.

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Comment by dawniy
2007-10-22 19:11:26

love your “You know you’re a mum when . . .” *chuckles

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