- 4am-ish and the darling boy comes in for a cuddle
- Comfort is given and child replaced in bed
- Dammit - toilet
- 6am-ish baby crying
- 6.30-ish little man visit
- Endure being punched and kicked 'accidentally'
- Feel child clamber over limbs and leave
- Hear the pitter patter of little feet up and down the hallway
- Hear the crash of toys
- Hear the plinky plonky piano
- Finally get up at 7
- Cup of Tea
- Finish watching Fantasia
- Clear notifications on phone
- Demands for bisfest
- Call Mother
- CBeebies on TV followed by couple of pages of CBeebies magazine & colouring
- Baby wipe table after all extra colouring
- 9ish husband surfaces
- Cup of Tea
- My own breakfast - eaten stood up in the kitchen, away from small person eyes
- Ironing
- Intense panic stations every time little man comes anywhere near ironing board onn account of Inspector Gadget arms
- Husband leaves, claims work
- Get dressed and actually remember to clean everyone's teeth
- Sit on cold laminate floor and play stackers - 3 times
- Play shapes - 3 times
- Small person demands bug bug
- Look at the rain
- Go to supermarket in the rain
- Walk round supermarket talking to toddler and ignoring strange looks from other shoppers
- Walk home in the rain
- Transport shopping, child and buggy up one flight of stairs in three trips
- Change of clothes for damp mother and after observation lower clothes change for bottom damp toddler
- Amidst pleas for bisfest, put away shopping
- Lunch
- Cup of Tea
- Storytime in the big chair, lots of giggling at the word Grendel
- Cup of Tea
- Attempt to watch an episode of Bake Off
- Small child on one knee playing on ipad
- Notepad on other knee in an effort to re-write book synopsis
- Cup of Tea
- Remembers housework and washes dishes
- Small person plays with farm animals on kitchen floor
- Join in
- Make many farmyard animal noises
- Notices fridge is leaking on the floor again
- Has a timeout to start making a note of what doing today for bullet point blog writing later
- Still raining
- Feels guilty for lack of activity
- 10 minutes of madness
- playing catch and kick with ball
- dancing
- playing scary roaring game
- Put sticker on Change4Life 10min movement chart
- Demands for window - watch cars
- Snack time for small person who begs for banana but is persuaded to apple
- Cup of Tea
- Put Dumbo on
- play with Legos
- sing row rows
- play with farmyard animals
- read stories
- remove nail varnish
- play Soda Crush
- 3.30pmish an extremely tired small person crawls onto knee
- Multiple nursery rhymes are sung lustily
- Requests for Peppa
- The pig reigns supreme
- Remembers housework and attempts to tidy up a little
- Banking
- Social Visit! Another grown up and their darling little girl
- Cup of Tea
- Heart wrenching pleas/sobs for bisfest/dinner
- Reheat leftovers
- Thank the gods for leftovers
- Dinner
- Biggest, longest story book bought over with huge smiles
- Biggest, longest story book read
- Half-way through realise nappy is leaking
- Continue reading
- Remembers housework, does dishes
- Rings Mother about leaky fridge
- Jabs drain hole at back of fridge (inside) with knitting needle - water disappears
- Silently thanks the gods for fridge not being dead
- Rings husband in fridge relief
- Discusses cake
- Remembers housework and puts washing on
- Remembers little person and runs bath
- Light in boys room stops working
- All bedtime paraphernalia set up in my room
- Little man splashed into bath
- Wash rack emptied, folded and put away
- Risk life and limb stepping into bathroom to wash child
- Remove child from bathroom much damper than before
- Attempt to dry toddler doing his best impression of Tigger
- Remember furniture barricade hasn't been set up
- Quickly create barricade
- Thanks the gods for CBeebies bedtime hour
- Light in front room dies
- Creative use of lamp
- Tidies bathroom
- Tidies my bedroom
- Checks light in boys room - working
- Tidies boys room and gets bed ready
- Goes to tidy kitchen, realise it's already done
- Feels smug
- Puts away all the toys
- Gives in to biscuit demands
- Cup of Tea
- Contemplates the evening ahead and writes blog before run out of steam
Hopes for the evening:
- Husband will arrive home from work on time
- Dr Who will be watched
- Cake
- Cups of Tea
- Will remember to empty the washing machine and rack it before bedtime
- Time to stitch
- Time to read
- Attempt to fall into bed before midnight
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