LeoLioness, I sympathise about your DS2 as my DD screamed nearly every morning when she first started school, for just over a year! They said she was happy once she got in and I wasn't there but she found it hard to do that moment of separation. The teacher used to sometimes pull her off me and take her in! She is very happy to go in now and luckily DS who has just started half days this week is very happy and proud to go to school! Different children are just born with different personalities!
StarBear, I know what you mean, sometimes when school have sent letters/forms home I've just thought "Oh thank you so much, that's more work for me to do/more money for me to spend." Then it is very annoying when you've prepared it all but forget to take it in the morning rush! I know what you mean about the scrum going into school as well, my DD used to find this quite intimidating which annoyed me if it set her off screaming again on a day when she was being calm and not crying yet!
DylsMum, You've got pet snails? How cool!
TeaMonster, My keboard is getting annoying too as some keys I have to smack really hard to make them work. I think I've got bits of junk food stuck down them! I've read the mission and it makes me feel a bit ashamed of my slovenly ways which I recognise from what she says. DH thinks that if he and the kids weren't living here I would live like people off "Life of Grime" that used to be on TV and to get into the house I would have to make a tunnel through a load of, what he calls, "tut", as I don't like throwing things away. I also make a real mess looking for things and then leave it like that, or chuck things into piles in corners and put off sorting it out.
I wrote a timetable for my week for this phase of my life with both children at school but I can't stick to all the tasks/activities on there yet while DS is only doing half days, yet I still feel slightly guilty for not sticking to it! Today I should, according to the timetable, be doing:
- One hour of flute practice
- Learning how to produce some kind of baked product for DH and the kids (instead of just buying Mr Kipling's)
- "Mothers' Meeting"/playdate and tea for all kids (at my house today)
But I haven't even had a shower yet!
I think I will just do the essential housework - dishwasher, one load of laundry, iron DH a shirt for tomorrow, then do a bit of flute practice before collecting DS, then see if I can get some bits and bobs done at the same time as talking to DS and acting stupid to make him laugh.