Thank Crunchie its Friday FLY

[TheMadHouse]

mission

babystepping

Happy Birthday Scatty Pressies sound wonderful - you lucky lady

EHM Well done on the travel cot. I have two muct get them on e-bay, could do with the space and the cash

galen I too have mopped the floor

OK I have

Mopped the downstairs
Cleared the lunch chaos
Cleaned the trip traps
Wiped the kitchen counters
S&S downstiars loo

Still to do

Ironing
Upstairs hoover
Dinner for toniight

happy birthday scatty

hello everyone

I am ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY DELIGHTED that its friday!

done
bed made
S&S bathroom
kitchen/living room quick tidy
dressed ds
rinsed out bottles for recycling
sorted and transferred pile of post dp had left lying around into bin/post tray
got fish out of freezer for tea
took ds to nursery

Wolf I have to second that - I am so in need of a lie in, a bath and some adult company, although I am not sure that DH is an adult

mad pmsl I often think that about my own DP!
A lie in would be like heaven - I wonder if I can convince DP to let me stay in bed tomorrow morning, he is feeling quite sorry for me as I look and feel pretty rottten

HAPPY BURPDAY SCATTY

Agree with Wolf and Mad that DH is good but not adult company at times

Just made lunch and very good it was too even though it was butties and goodies from the cookie tin

Also made pizza dough and loaded DW which is running

Talked myseld out of applying for a job. It's only 15 hrs per week but it's full Friday and Saturday nights. DH agrees we would get no quality family time so It's knocked on the head

Off to assembly. TTFN

Very disorganised today.
But have tidied playroom at bit - didn't take much.
DS1 requires constant supervision if not on computer Made him read something about Dickens in Dr Who Almanac. and given him lunch.
But he refuses to leave house..

I'm sorry to put on you lovely ladies but...Can I have a self indulgent whine please.

DH is at the end of his contract and is kicking round the house. He's feeling like he's going to be ill and is hiding in the attic/ofice

Ed is just being very hard work at the moment. Everything I ask him to do is met with a howl of upset (no tears) a tantrum and he ends up doing what he wants. I understand it can be part of this dyspraxia thing and I'm trying to be patient and understanding but, I'm finding it hard to deal with and also having to tackle DH's frustration with it to. I feel like Bam Ki Moon /Kof Annan/Butros Butros Gali a good deal of the time

I went to assembly at 2, came home and started to tackle more laundry. Up and down 2 flights of stairs carrying washing to do?wet washing to hang/damp wasshing to dry. Plus emptying DW and putting away. DH hasn't moved from the pc and Ed is glued to the Xbox stretching his neck round if he thinks your in the way.

My legs hurt badly. We've knocked rugby training on the head so I feel bad about that. DH seems peeved that I haven't encouraged Ed to do homework. I have to get to the hospital for a scan at 9 am tomorrow and

I'm just really fed up. I'm not handling things at all and feel very useless

Sorry, long, just needed to spew before I crack up.

I should look on the good things. I got a certificate today for my 2 years of Reading Friends work which was nice and a mum at the children's centre gave me some really lovely compliments. At least some people notice me

Please kick me up the rear

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCATTY EHM thats good

GO don't think you need a kick up the bum. you are always so busy. try and take it easy (not easy i know)

Groucy I think a talk with DH is on order - you are not wonderwoman (although you try to be). I think you need to be honoust with DH regarding how bad Boris can make you feel and ASK for his help with Specific tasks.

Men just dont see the debris and the work that goes into keeping a house running.

DH has specific tasks that are his every day. I initially wrote them on the chalk board, but he does them regardless now.

Why not do a morning and afternoon list and alocate him some tasks. I am going to do a list for when I am in hospital.

I understand the feeling that you are working for the UN, as I feel like that most of the time with the boys ATM.

Do you think Ed is going through a pushing his boundries. If so you need to stand firm - easier said than done. My two didnt go to soft play this afternoon due to not doing as they have been tolf. They will learn even if it is the hardway.

Done

Made a necklace with DS1 to go with the braclet DS2 made with my mum
Played duck hunt thing
Bathed the boys
Dinner in the oven
PJ's on boys
Their colothes out for tomorrow
Bedrooms ready for bed

I am waiting for the oven to beep and then feeding time at the zoo

Grouchy I really really sympathise. Do you think it is that men/boys just focus so totally on one thing at a time that they really have no side vision about things, sort of before and afterthought? I think it is sometimes what it good about them but sometimes that's what makes them impossible to negotiate with. They get it, but not when at the precise moment you want to discuss it, because at that moment they are actually thinking about something else. In DS1's case the next Dr Who episode, in DH case that he doesn't want dcs screaming around him when he comes in the door from work.
Anyway, homework is a nightmare, which they (dcs)suddenly crack in year 3 I think, because they sort of take responsibitly for it themselves
I do feel powerless to make my sons do what I want when I want, and now I have use sorcery. Or sometimes big RULES written on large pieces of paper, which they seem to like.

Thanks for the happy birthdays girls .

Grouchy I totally agree with the others, you are doing more than your share. Swans post reminded me of something I read about understanding your dh more when you have a son .

Done:
laundry
ds reading

Better go.....

Grouchy I think you are doing a fab job - you are always so busy doing worthwhile things. Remember what DH said to Ed last week about you looking after them both? Perhaps he needs reminding again. Sounds like he is in his cave at the minute and not wanting to come out!

My DS is being difficult at the minute too, he must have been in the thinking corner so many times this week!

DD has stopped vomiting and now is just plain miserable and a little madam. She mustn't be feeling well bless her.

Just made naans, poppadoms and veggie korma from scratch, now i am shattered with the strain of the week. Haven't left the house really except for toddlers and yoga twice for over a fortnight

I have cabin fever.

Thanks ladies btw for all your good wishes today.

grouchy it is def your DH that needs a kick not you!Take it easy and be gentle on yourself. You are doing a wonderful job. Sometimes this parenting business just wears you down. It is so constant, and so constantly thankless! But be proud of yourself. You are doing fabulously and you know that, so give yourself a pat on the pack even when no one else does!
I read this great post once, you may have seen it somewhere, that went something like this:

One day a man came home from work to find his 2 small sons playing in the mud in the front garden, filthy and still wearing their pyjamas. Leading up to the house was a trail of broken biscuits and sweet wrappers. He made his way to the kitchen to find spilled cereal boxes and cartons of milk and juice all over the floor.Dirty plates and cups were piled over every surface, and a heap of dirty clothes lay in the corner. He hastily made his way upstairs, stepping over the huge pile of toys, clothes and assorted items.Thinking some terrible tragedy had befallen his wife he rushed towards the bedroom passing the bathroom on his way, where he noticed an unpleasent stench and a trail of toilet paper spread across the floor.He burst into the bedroom, and there was his wife sitting in bed reading a book. When he asked her for an explanation she looked up and smiled and said " You know how every day you come home and ask me what I've done all day, well today I didn't do it."

Made me smile LOL

swan My Ds1 is in Y6 now and I'm still waiting for him to click with the homework thing. He always forgets it LOL! I do now let him face the consequences when he forgets though... one day he'll get organised. he is so dosy LOL

So got most of my things done today YAY.
Now just need to get DS off to scout camp - I have him in so many layers he looks 3 stone heavier LOL

Have a good night all - also secretly hoping for a lie iin tomorrow!

Evening again

Both boys are snuffle babed, calpoled and ready for bed. Both are bunged up and feeling sorry for themsleves

I have talked DS1 into having his hair trimmed next week (Thursday), he likes it long and curly and doesnt want it short like the other boys at preschool. I just want him to have his fringe trimmed. I too like it long and different. Glad I am teaching him it is OK not to conform all the time. There is plenty of time for him to have sort hair.

My week has caught up with me and I am tired.

So once boys are in bed, it is food, bath and bed for me.

galen love it!!!

sometimes that IS what greets my dh.

Oh and I am looking forward (not) to all the homework. Is there really a need for it all?

Possibly not, but was reading a school post the other day when dithering, where mother was in despair with hopeless school where homework was negligible. Which made me think.
To start with, it is quite fun ha ha and then years pass and you realise you can't go to the park out to tea after school anymore because you have to get home and do the homework!!!!And that is terribly .

I just dont remember any homework apart from reading in Primary. Homework was a secondary school thing for me.

Childhood is so short and I am sure my boys would rather be doing something else, as I would them.

I think I am an anti-pushy mum. Strange breed me

Grouchy, please don't worry about homework with Ed. I've just realised he is only five, not seven as I somehow presumed. If they aren't interested in something, they really WILL NOT do it at that age. My little one, who I think of as having only just joined Reception, is in Year 2 and is only just WRITING. When he is given homework that is beyond his physical (not mental) abilities such as joined up writing (LOL) I just say he is not ready, and I don't want him to DO IT. His sister is fine, but she is a girl and has fine motor skills that he lacks.

The other thing I realise is that he does his homework to please his teacher NOT me.

grouchy have an uncharachteristic mn hug from me. I think a lot of men are the same they don't see when a job needs doing but they do see when a job hasn't been done. Unfortunately somehow their tiny little brains don't always see the link between one and the other. What about asking dh to fetch the washing up and down stairs for you, you load the basket at either end with dirty/wet/dry washing and he does the lugging around. my dp tends to get very in his own head when he is stressed with work and always takes it out on me even though he doesn't mean to - sometimes a not very gentle reminder that I am not the problem/not his staff etc etc
galen I liked that little parable
mad I also fail to see the point of primary school homework

Hello everyone. I missed myself so thought EV could come back for a bit.

Grouchy - have a bath. Go to bed.

Ruby - are you feeling any better.

Mad - DD loves her homework but then she is only in Reception.