Is this normal? Please can I have a paid job now!!
I do have a strategy. It's quite simple.
- Go out every day, whatever the weather
- Speak quietly, wherever possible
- Stay off the wine because although it helps in the moment, the next day is much much harder to cope with
- Bake many beautiful cakes to avoid expensive coffee stops, when a skinny flat just isn't enough, especially with 2 little voices demanding banana bread
- Move as much as possible to burn off all the excess wine and beautiful cakes ;-)
- Be creative
My decision early on was not to sign Dylan up for lots of school holiday camps, mainly because we're supposed to be watching the dollars, plus, its only 2 and a half weeks. Easy Peezy, right! Play dates with friends, picnics in the park, perhaps even a day at the zoo. Lovely!! We can spend some quality time together, without the mad school rush every morning.
EXCEPT!, as all yummy mummy's know, it's still a whole 12 hours of parental care and entertainment, usually without so much as a pee break. Added to the fact that the cupboards are bare and a trip to the yocal shops are unavoidable. Ahhhh! The nightmare appears, as does a vision of myself institutionalised because I have finally admitted to turning to 'Mummy's ickle helper' a little too often.
Here we are!!
Yesterday was a good, creative day!
We invited 5 of Dylan's friends over to our house to join in a screen printing workshop. It was lovely. We all had a great time and the children were very proud to wear their fabulous creations, which were completely designed and made by themselves, with a tiny bit of help.
Huge Thank you to
http://onegoldenapple.blogspot.com/2009/05/simple-silk-screening-with-kids-or-not.html
