Wendy and Swan, thank you for saying encouraging things on the weekend thread
EHM I haven't read the mission as I'm so tired I think I'll only get the essential things done today. DD (6) woke me up at 3.30am to say she couldn't sleep. I was pleased with myself for not getting angry with her. I told her to look at books til she felt sleepy and make sure she doesn't wake anyone else up, like I've told her before, and I'm really pleased with her that she did this and didn't come back in. I heard her reading her books for almost an hour before it sounded like she was asleep so she resisted coming in a hundred times keeping us awake like she has done previously! Unfortunately though, I couldn't get back to sleep and I really need my sleep.
It's so hard to know how much preschool/school your kids can cope with until they do it! I thought my DD was so grown up when she was 4 that she was really ready for school, but she cried every time she left me to go in to the classroom nearly every day for a year. I thought my DS was still quite babyish and just not ready for school, but he has done a week and a day of half days and there has been no crying, just excitement! He has been really confident about it! I couldn't have predicted how either of them were!
Leo, are you being easy on yourself as you have a sick child home? You can't be expected to get as much done as usual. I should take my own advice too! DS's tiredness from his first week at school has just caught up with him today and he is being quite difficult. It has taken ages to get him to do the simplest things since collecting him at 11.15, so I can't get things done, yet still feel like I'm doing really badly. It took longer to walk home because of arguments about him wanting to walk on people's garden walls. Then it took him longer to get changed because he wanted me to do it for him but I want him to learn how to do it himself ready for when he has to do it for PE! The bits I know he can do, I'm insisting that he does, but I had to be patient and keep saying he must do it while he messed around and kept asking me to do it for ages. Then it takes him ages to eat lunch. Then he keeps asking me the same questions about things over and over again and asking why about everything. I don't mind this too much but it does slow me down from getting anything done. All these things seem harder when you feel tired though
DylsMum, good luck with your studying. It's nice to have something else to be interested in as well as the daily things that you have to do, in a 'change is as good as a break' sort of way.
Ruby, I know what you mean about the kids being tired after school. I'm not planning to do 'proper' activities with them after school (apart from ballet tonight and a couple of after school playdates per week). I'll just do DD's school reading book and then sort of watch what they are doing and 'join in' with it when I want to give them my 'interaction'. I'm not going to pressure them into doing anything which takes too much concentration unless they decide to do it themselves and want my help. I plan to do 'proper' activities on weekends and half terms but this weekend just gone I didn't really manage it apart from taking them to a party.
Scatty, it made me laugh what you said about your DH. At the weekend mine said he felt he had done enough chores (garden stuff) to qualify as a "Fly Man".
My short flute lesson this morning seems to have taken up the whole morning, with getting there and back and making a few notes about the lesson. DH phoned earlier and I told him this, expecting him to think I was rubbish for not having got anything done in the house, but he said he thought it would take up the whole time til I had to collect DS. This really pleased me.
I'm just going to do the essential things:
-dishwasher
-one load of washing
-iron shirt for DH
..before collecting DD and then I have to take both kids to DD's ballet in the next town and keep DS entertained during her lesson (he used to be at nursery during this time but now he is at school I have to take him with me). I find Mondays tiring with ballet after school for some reason (I don't find it tiring taking them to Mothers' Meetings after school on Weds and Thu but I suppose I've got the excitement of other mothers to talk to and coffee on those days to keep my energy up). I need to go and get more diesel on the way which seems to make me a bit anxious as well (I'm not very happy with car related things).
I am SO tired, and 'PMT Psycho week' makes me even more tired and just don't want to do anything really! A Red Bull might be necessary although I only have one if I feel 'desperate'. What a drip I am today!