My browser is sitting refusing to do anything while I print henry cards out for Big.

Small has discovered how to take his clothes off and is running around with only a nappy departing from his nether regions. I’ve discovered that when I pay attention, there could be a very good reason that he doesn’t speak, called he quite literally can’t get a word in edgeways. Every time I try to pay him the smallest bit of attention Big is there, in front of him, between us, playing the game, moving the pieces, filling the word in, whatever. This requires more thought 🙁

And today she is attitudinally challenging to put it politely. So far she’s spent one stint in her bedroom after purposefully emptying her entire pencil box (it’s more like a toolbox actually, *lot* of stuff) all over the floor seconds after I asked her not to.

Make that two stints….for being extremely rude.

We’ve just had a phonecall saying that our art session for tomorrow morning is cancelled as my friend is too ill, and hasn’t come back from Bedford 🙁 Tim’s away at the first of two all day business meetings and I’m wondering how I’m going to hold it all together this week. It’s gonna be a toughie.


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8 responses to “email blog”

  1. sending hugs then, hope you can keep your cool. Will be thinking of you.

  2. Making the most of your time alone with Steve already then Sarah?

  3. is that on the right blog chris??
    Jax, commiserations on attitudinally challenged. SB less so at the mo. She is looking forward to seeing Big in a fortnight [you are there?]

  4. We will be, and I think Chris was responding to the fact that Sarah had been blog commenting in her childfree time 😉

  5. We’re here if you need a hand!

  6. Good luck with it all Jax. You’ll manage! It’s what we mums always do, somehow or other 🙂

  7. Shall head over at some point to weild azada, if you like. 😀 Will dig fur fabric out of black hole to make flatties too!

  8. We were at the office – where he promised not to get embroiled in work stuff – yeah right!

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