I suppose you can’t get this far into lockdown without having some highs and lows. For no apparent reason today was a low in Casa Low. I suspect it was my fault as I rolled all the way over this morning and got out of the wrong side of the bed. It was definitely downhill from there.
The kids and Steph got regular tongue lashings (Steph enjoying that more than the kids) and I was pretty disinterested in everything that was going on. I have no doubt that tomorrow will be markedly better, again for no reason, but I can’t wait for that to happen. If anyone else is having a rough day just keep your chin up and remember we are all in this together and tomorrow is a fresh start!
The #HomeSchooling is still progressing well, entirely through the efforts of my wife. I wanted today to be Monsters or Mould but they ended up going for Maths! E got a call from her head teacher today to see how she was getting on so that was a happy coincidence as she had been smashing her way through her maths workbook. We are onto N tomorrow so fire your suggestions over as no final decision has been made yet!
When I got over my own bad mood, I definitely learnt 5 things today:
1. It is time to put the baby gate on M’s bedroom door. He’s been threatening to do it since before lockdown started but tonight he finally managed to climb out of his cot. 5 times. I suspect he just wanted to join in the NHS clap (and ran outside and across the street!) but I don’t know the reason for the 4 trips after that. He appears to have mastered the technique of swinging his leg over and then lowering himself down so at least it is a safe dismount. If he turns up in our bedroom in the middle of the night I’m not going to be impressed! 🛏
2. I shouldn’t try and introduce E to new foods. For lunch I knocked up a bagel for the kids thinking it wouldn’t be particularly controversial. Turns out I was wrong. E took one bite then marched off to find me. “I don’t like the seeds (sesame seed bagel) or the new butter (Philadelphia) Daddy.”
“Sorry sweetie – I thought you would like to try something new.”
<eye roll> “What’s the big idea?”
I mean she actually said that to me. The cheek of it! 🥯
3. I may be developing an alcohol problem. I made myself stay off the booze tonight as I had realised our recycling box was once again full and there were quite a lot of empty wine bottles still to put out. We have definitely fallen into the habit of a drink or two or three every night. I mean if you want to come and get locked down with my kids then you would really understand… you really would. But once you pop you just can’t stop and to be frank it’s getting really expensive given Steph’s taste in wine. So I’ve done well tonight but tomorrow is Friday so guess we’ll be back on it!! 🍷
4. We need to keep the kids off our phones. I’m pretty relaxed about the kids having screen time although we do try and keep it spaced out across the day. The problem is however that E knows how to use the phones better than we do and she is obsessed with selfies. We literally find hundreds of different poses on there every evening – my favourite from today is below. If this is what she is like at 5, what have we got to look forward to over the next 10+ years? 💋
5. I’m too tall. Now this is a strange one but I basically tried to knock myself out at lunchtime. E wanted to play a game so I obliged in the hope this would get me in a better mood. It was a very strange made up game involving spinning on the spot then running round the living room. It was apparently a set of challenges and if I won then we could watch an episode of Paw Patrol together! Anyway the next challenge was to hop half way round the room and then jump the other half. I was doing really well and bouncing like a kangaroo but didn’t realise I was underneath the ceiling light and crashed into it which a pretty heavy bump. You could tell it made a noise as instead of laughing E immediately rushed over and asked if I needed an ambulance! 🚑
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