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My Mum would be ashamed of me! Anyone else let their standards slip during school hols?

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Saturn74 · 24/08/2006 10:38

My 8yo DS has just come and asked me if we can eat dinner at the dining table "as a special treat". It used to be "can we eat in front of the TV as a special treat"!! Anyone else let their standards slip during the holidays?

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Furball · 24/08/2006 10:41

no!

Beetroot · 24/08/2006 10:42

my 9 year ds told daddy that he had no lunch yesterday

prettymum · 24/08/2006 10:45

let me see were to start....pile of ironing sitting on the couch, dishes starting to pile up, crayon marks on the floor, beds need changing.. god the list goes on...im so ashamed!!

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Saturn74 · 24/08/2006 10:45

So handy that Oceangram now has the foghorn alert - it means I can easily flit between that, Mumsnet, the TV and my massive bar of Dairy Milk! The children are upstairs tidying their rooms of their own free will - do you think that's a subtle hint for me to get off my backside and provide them with something slightly more stimulating to do?

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anorak · 24/08/2006 10:45

My ds is still in his pyjamas. Some days he doesn't get dressed till 3pm

charliecat · 24/08/2006 10:47

I have washed the floors once during these holidays. Lunch is now grab a nana and apple and a packet of crisps...Bad bad bad!

Xavielli · 24/08/2006 14:50

Yep! and I don't have any kids of school age! lol

JonesTheSteam · 24/08/2006 14:55

Yes - my two used to be little angels who went to bed with no trouble.

Now it's a struggle to get them to stay in their own room, let alone sleep in there, as for about a week we let them sleep together in a tent in DD's room. ("Oh, they haven't got school tomorrow - it won't matter!!!!!!!!")

They gave my parents hell the one night they've babysat for us this holidays

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Saturn74 · 27/08/2006 01:13

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maedhbh · 27/08/2006 01:34

yep! no dinner at table for holidays.. how bad is that.... too much crap food.... too many late nights.. but.. school is back next week so.... things will change... I think...

WideWebWitch · 27/08/2006 06:18

My standards are pretty low to start with but during the holidays yes, we get even lower in terms of when we bother getting dressed and eat etc. I work ft oth though so I'm only talknig about when I'm off, as I am this week, the rest of the time we're all out of the house by 8am

KBear · 27/08/2006 07:16

Yes I do and it's a blessed relief. I love not having to chivvy the kids out the door by 8am every day, our house is calm and quiet in the mornings, breakfast is eaten when you're hungry with no nagging from me to "EAAAAAT UPPPP" "come ON". I work part-time so a couple of mornings a week they go to my mums so it's not every day but I do like a bit of sitting in PJ's watching dvds! And I haven't done last weeks' ironing yet either....I keep looking at it while I mumsnet and think "must get on with that" but it's too difficult!

dinny · 27/08/2006 07:36

we've been having breafast in front of the Tv every day, am a total sloth. and I haven't washed their faces/cleaned teeth in the am all hols...!

Elibean · 27/08/2006 09:05

love love this thread. Yes, lots of late nights, late mornings, mess, picnics (on floor if raining), daily treats all round (ie me too)...

And dd is not even at pre-school yet....funny how I let myself off hooks during 'holidays' even so. Its bliss. I think my Mum (who is anxious and a mega-cleaner) would be rather envious of some of it

chocybickie · 27/08/2006 09:14

i can't recall one day this hols where my boys haven't had a cholcolate bar or a packet of crisps.
i've kept the bedtimes at 7.30 as i would go crazy otherwise but none of us are dressed before 12pm.
I'm enjoying it, in a few days ds1 is back at school, ds2 starts at nursery full time and i start at college full time so it will be hectic. i'm glad of these lazy days.

KBear · 27/08/2006 10:40

Next week I am going to try and bring bedtime forward a bit though, to get them back into the habit of a 7.30 bedtime for school. That might be easier said that done!

Twiglett · 27/08/2006 10:43

no my standards are super-high at all times and your mother would love me

Scoobydooooo · 27/08/2006 10:45

Yep Everything is everywhere & nothing is how it should be, the clean clothes are just in piles waiting to be ironed, the only thing that is nearly the same is bed time but that is slipping to & i can not afford for that to happen

Twiglett · 27/08/2006 10:46

at my feet (in the front room) I can see a duvet, 3 newspapers, a book, cards spread over the floor, changing mat, pink bendy man, bendy spiderman, brush, case, another book, doll's clothes, wooden watch

and that's just what I can see over the laptop

oh good auntie mabel and pippin .....

KBear · 27/08/2006 10:46

Twig - sod off please, this thread is for slovenly mothers only. Please busy yourself elsewhere.

KBear · 27/08/2006 10:46

aah, so you lied.....

rustybear · 27/08/2006 11:19

Strange things do happen in the holidays. I just went to get myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast.It seems to have turned magically into a large piece of chocolate cake.....

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Saturn74 · 27/08/2006 11:47

IIRC large pieces of chocolate cake are almost identical in nutritional value to a bowl of Bran Flakes and a banana. I'm sure I read that on a parenting website somewhere.

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Twiglett · 27/08/2006 11:48

yes but if her mum was coming round it would be cleaned up within 10 minutes by everybody being screamed at and kids would be bribed with chocolate, sweet and lemondade to be good as I turn off tv and put on some Frank Sinatra and shove some muffins in the oven

so her mum would lurve me

rustybear · 27/08/2006 11:49

In my defence it was the last piece of chocolate cake. So I was just tidying up, was't I?

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