Happy Platinum Anniversary to my regular readers. We’ve made it to day 70 and we’re just about in one piece. Well done us!
After the excitement of yesterday and perhaps an overload of adrenaline running through my body, today was a bit of a shock to the system. My leg injury has hit back with a vengeance and I’ve spent all day hobbling around. Today would have been a rest day if we were still mid-relay so I’m expecting that the withdrawal symptoms won’t hit until tomorrow. A good bit of rest for this leg to heal and then I’m determined to keep some regular running going after that given how many miles are in the old pins.
The kids were on great form today. I know they can be right pains sometimes but lockdown just wouldn’t have been the same without them. And when they are happy (and well fed) they are an absolute joy. I’m still trying to work out where all the food goes but I guess they wouldn’t eat if they weren’t hungry. Gannets or pigs? 🤔
So a happy and funny top 5 today:
1. The GroClock is definitely the best money I’ve ever spent! E absolutely loves it and even spent time today trying to explain to M how it works and why she can’t get up before the “sun comes up”. To our shock we were all still in bed at 7.30am. Whether that is because of the clock or just the fun in the sun yesterday, to be frank my dear I don’t give a damn! It was complete bliss. Perhaps I should try and sign up for some commission from the GroClock company given all the publicity I’m giving them! Oh, and you get a free storybook with it. 🕰
2. Our one key bit of naughtiness today happened first thing when M got a telling off from his Daddy. I forget now exactly what it was about and that isn’t important. What is key however is the fact that I raised my voice and Steph heard me from upstairs. M sloped out of the living room in full knowledge he had been told off. So he sought love and sympathy upstairs and headed into our bedroom. He arrived with all his cute smiles and giggles ready to entertain his Mammy but all he got was the classic line “I’ve heard you’ve been a naughty boy.” He knew straight away his usual divide and conquer approach hadn’t worked and so his head just dropped to his chest and he shuffled out, pulling the bedroom door closed behind him. I love it when some consistency of message actually works! 😏
3. I decided to still take the kids for their lunchtime walk especially as M needed his nap and strapping him down (in his pushchair) is by far the best way to help him nod off. I was trying to get them out of the door but inevitably E wanted to get herself sorted out. First she needed the toilet. Then she wanted her new Ariel dress sorted out so she looked extra pretty for going out. Then she refused to put any comfy or flat shoes on and wanted her glittery heels on. To top it off she then demanded to have a handbag as “All beautiful ladies who wear dresses and lovely shoes have to have a handbag to carry around their important items.” Just to be clear those important items comprised a bottle of Frozen perfume, a plastic strawberry tart, a plastic mobile phone, a toy Olaf and a toy Cinderella. Remember folks, never leave home without these things! Just in case of emergencies you understand. 👜
4. On the way back from our walk (during which we found the fairy garden again together with a pond full of tadpoles) E randomly started talking about Aladdin. To show interest I asked her if she had three wishes what would she wish for. She thought for about half a second and then replied “first for some candy floss and second for some candy canes…” (who knew I was raising an American child!) and she then paused for a bit longer and said “and then I’d wish for more wishes.” Now my instinct was to say “that’s my girl” but it was too easy an answer so I told her that unfortunately Genies can’t grant a wish for more wishes so she needed something else instead. She thought for a little and then suddenly said, “Daddy, my third wish is for lots of genies as each one can grant me 3 wishes and then I can have everything I want.” Her problem solving skills are clearly developing with #HomeSchooling! 🧞♀️
5. After deciding that playing in the paddling pool didn’t really count as a proper wash, we threw the two terrors in the bath tonight for a proper scrub. Now Steph doesn’t really trust me to wash E’s hair although I genuinely don’t know what I have or haven’t done in the past to warrant such a slur on my parenting abilities. So I tend to wash M first and then take him downstairs and finish getting him ready for bed whilst Steph washes E’s hair and then sends her down. No sooner was M in his pyjamas when E appears in her towel. Her hair was bone dry. I asked why she was out of the bath and she said she was cold. I told her to get back up so Mammy could wash her hair. She said she’d already spoken to Mammy. “And what did Mammy say?” I asked sceptically. “She told me I could get out if I wanted to be smelly!” came the reply.
“Surely you don’t want to be smelly?” I retorted.
“Why not? Boys are smelly and I can always spray on some perfume!”
So now I know why the bottle of perfume was an essential item to take on the walk. It can hide all manner of sins! 🛀
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