Love a Friday. Such a good day and some would say the best day of the week. It’s been a hard week for lots of reasons but everything has felt manageable as when bad news has arrived I could just walk down the stairs and my three rocks are right there. Maybe #RemoteWorking is the way forward after all.
Even the weather isn’t getting us down despite being stuck indoors. I think middle age is creeping up on us as we’ve caught ourselves saying things like “it’s actually a good thing as the garden needs a good water”. Need to shake that off pdq!
We have lots of surprises lined up this weekend for the kids so can’t wait for tomorrow to start. But in the meantime here we go with today’s top 5:
1. You know E must REALLY love her brother when she takes herself off to the naughty step, not because she has been badly behaved, but because her brother has been and is sat there by himself all upset. She is so patient and caring with him (puts us to shame) no matter how awful he is to her. Anytime he pulls her hair or steals her toys or rugby tackles her she just says “It’s fine Daddy. He’s just a baby. He doesn’t understand.” I’m not sure that’ll still be her line when they are both teenagers! 😇
2. An incident between Steph and E:
E screams at her Mammy because she’s asked her to put her glasses on. She then comes back with them on.
“Mammy, the reason I’ve got glasses is because I knew the coronavirus was coming.”
“…”
“I brought them home from school so I can see”
“I know, that’s why I asked you to put them on so you could read the words!”
E doesn’t bother to respond to this and certainly won’t admit Mammy was right so she just sits silently and starts getting on with her work! 🙄
3. Another E special:
E – “M why haven’t you eaten your sausages? They are healthy.”
E – “Mammy M hasn’t eaten his last sausage. He’s not allowed any snacks until he does.”
M walks into kitchen to the cupboard.
E – “M your not allowed anything else until you eat your sausage *gives M sausage* he eats it. Then he asks for more food.”
Gannets I tell you!! 🐷
4. This afternoon’s movie was… wait for it… Frozen 2! E’s choice for the fifth day in a row. What was special about today’s showing was the start was delayed until Daddy finished work so we could snuggle down together and eat popcorn and cry together at the sad bits (you’ll never find out if that’s true or not!) What surprised me the most was that not only did E seem to know all the words to all the songs but I found myself singing along too. I’ve heard them so many times I just get swept up into it. Even M loves shouting out “into the UNKNOWWWWWWN!” Bets are on for what she picks for tomorrow! ⛄️
5. Now I’ve been really good in recent weeks at not sharing any flash points between my wife and I particularly when it comes to our offspring. They inevitably would conclude every time with me saying “I told you so” and then getting a slap so that can get pretty repetitive. But today’s was a cracker so here we go. It’s teatime. We’re all eating together which is lovely but we know M will be fussy. Steph has cooked a great meal of turkey (which we call chicken so that E eats it), mashed potato and roasted root veg. We are all tucking in and commenting on how lovely it is, when M starts his usual games. He jumps down from his chair and starts banging on the cupboards for something else. I say to Steph “don’t give him anything else – he’ll soon come back and eat his tea.” After 2 minutes she gives in and gives him waffles. He refuses to eat them. I say, “definitely don’t give him anything else. He needs to learn.” He eats a little bit of the waffles and crushes up the rest and scatters them across the kitchen floor. Steph says “just give him a yoghurt otherwise he’ll moan all evening.” So I do but then walk away and say “he’s all yours!” Before I know it there’s screaming coming from the kitchen as he’s scooped out the yoghurt and is smearing it all over his legs. I was already upstairs running the bath knowing exactly what was coming… I told you so?!? 🤷🏼♂️
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