Weekend Fly. Twas on a Saturday Morning That I Beheld My Darling, Finishing the Washing O

[swanriver]

misty here, and very cold.

Only have to make butties for tomorrow now and I can't do that til after tea as I need chicken.

Life is a (ever increasing)circle of laundry. It never ever stops really. If it's not in the washer, it needs drying or ironing or folding or putting away or messing up again. Repeat until exhausted

So I've got through another weekend...lets see if I can manage another rip roaring week huh. Nighty night ladies

Hi all.

Been swimming, done homework and written cards, been to (very odd) party with ds, washed up - phew.

To do
ironing
sandwiches
bath dc (wash hair)
pack bags.

Am feeling a bit washed out .

Evening all.
Lots of productivity from all it seems- well done!
And laundry - well yes. 6 kids make a LOT of washing LOL I was without WM when it broke for a week - it took me months to recover from the backlog LOL!

Quiet - but nice day here. Deliberately didn't do too much housewise.
Made choc cake with Dd2 this afternoon - she needed some mummy time.
More general playing with littlies and chatting to bigger ones.
Homework finished off.
Tea done and cleared.
Lunchboxes done
baths all done
Did do 40 mins tidy round after tea - hope to do some of home blessing hour tomorrow
Washing sorted, folded and put away. Another load in WM!

Ds 2 thankfully in much better mood - have changed his formula with great success as he is accepting most of his bottles now YAY
Going to do some planning tonight for week ahead. Few things left to sort out tonight too ( need to order Dd4's b'day pressies and sort milk money for school)
Then early night again
Hoping to have a good day FLYing tomorrow

Galen - re ds bottle.

Evening all

Benn a bit of an up and down day here.

Wiggles were fantastic and DS2 espcially enjoed them and was singing and dancing in the cinema - so role on the live show in June

We had a relaxing afternoon, but all of a sudden at dinner time DS1 just went into complete meltdown cue 2 hours of tantrums that neither me nor DH could difuse. He eventually fell asleep and we have put him to bed. I fear he was far too tired to deal with anything, including food or bath time (so he had neither in the end).

This ended up with me and DH accusing each other - I blamed him for allowing pop and popcorn and then McDonalds (not a mummy thing). So I have just been and done 30 mins meditation (a new thing for me) and am going to make peace with him.

I think I am just worrying how we are going to get through my recovery as he is a lot less strict with the boys - they need routine etc as they are far to unruley otherwise.

Anyhow sorry for the essay.

Ho all.

Mad - you will have to let go after your Op and let DH get on with it. He may do things differently to the way you would do them but he has to work it out for himself what works. If he asks you for guidance then give it but if not you need to stay out of it. Honestly. It will be really hard for you to not try and back-seat-parent but your DH is going to be under enough stress without feeling that he is being undermined (even though I know this isnt what you would be doing iykwim).

I've had real issues with this TMH. I've learnt that when Dh is in charge he does a great job, when I'm in charge I do a great job but it is very very difficult when we both try and do our being in charge simultaneously. A lot of the things we used to argue about - what food the children should eat, telly watching quotas etc, have sort of resolved themselves the minute he got the chance to experience the results at first hand. And I've learnt that his way is sometimes better too. And they have great fun with him.

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