This morning I invited one of dd2's friends to come over and play today. Dd2 has been to her house probably half a dozen times but we've never invited her back (not to do with her, more to do with me and our family setup!). Anyhow, invite well and truly overdue.
Grrr. She has only been here half an hour and I'm already really irritated. I have already had to tell her that making mud pies is not allowed (I've just had the garden sorted out yesterday and I don't want to have to clear up that kind of mess before ds can go out there), between the two of them they have woken ds up twice and now he is crying and won't go back to sleep . I have had to remind them not to go into next door's garden (not as bad as it sounds, it's open between the two and my kids are allowed in there, but the playhouse in there has fallen down so it is dangerous), and for the last 10 minutes all I have heard from dd2 is "nooooo, X, we aren't allowed to ... " so I hate to think what she is doing now.
And yes, I could go out and supervise, but the puppy will howl and ds will cry, and they are 8.5 FGS so surely they shouldn't need me to sit 10 feet away to make sure they behave????
This is going to be a long day ...