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Mummy…

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Jax Blunt
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what are we going to do tomorrow?

Sigh. Every day this week I have had things planned to do with the offspring. Pretty much every day this week they have declined my offers and amused themselves with piratical activities, crafts, games, and computing time. I’m not sure that I’ve seen the TV on at all, not even to watch any of the documentaries

Big wanted us to record for them. So I’ve spent time doing my work, especially as I got my first OU package through this morning and I’ve blogged, brightkited, commented, tidied, done washing, made meals, washed up and loafed about.

And tonight I tucked Big into bed and kissed her good night.

Mummy, she said, what are we going to do tomorrow?

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5 responses to “Mummy…”

  1. Gill avatar
    Gill

    LOL! Sympathies. But you could just say: “I don’t know.” ? My mother had a thing about saying that – she thought it would make her a bad parent, and that parents should Always Know. Just for fun, we would mischievously ask her all kinds of questions to tie her brains in knots, so determined she was to avoid saying “I don’t know.” ! In the end, she’d just bad-temperedly say: “Oh, ask your father/stepfather. I haven’t got time to explain.” But she never fooled us – we knew there really were some things that she didn’t know. Another good one to wind her up was “I’m bored.” That got her every time. Sigh, children aren’t that innocent really, are they?
    So when I don’t know something, I say so, and when they tell me they’re bored, which is hardly ever because it doesn’t really wash with me IYSWIM, they just get sympathy and nothing else. FFS, there is enough to do around here! So now they just ask me to facilitate educational things when they want to pull my strings, because they know I’ll never say no to that. 🙄
    Sorry if none of that relates to you, just thought I’d mention it 😀
    Am also planning to comment on your previous post, but determined to finish Lockhart first! Which could take some time..

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  2. Tim avatar
    Tim

    It is the “don’t know” that Big objects to. She wants to know there is a plan.
    Never dared to tell my mother I was bored, she would hand you a spade, or a tea towel or a scrubbing brush if you said that.

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  3. Gill avatar
    Gill

    LOL! Good idea..!

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  4. Jan avatar
    Jan

    I usually reply What would you like to do tomorrow? Not that that comes with any promises attached, as M’s answer is usually horseriding. 🙂

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  5. nigel avatar
    nigel

    I know what you mean about the kiddies wanting to know what’s happening tomorrow etc, but we never have problems with saying we dont know either. I think it helps them to realise that not everyone can be the fount (sp) of all knowledge all of the time LOL. and helps build in some suprises etc. Even more so, I got really fed up with promising stuff, especially over the past 6 months or so and then circumstances would change so quickly that meant we never got around to doing what we have promised. I am currently trying to do some of the things that we had promised we would do when ‘mommy was better’ e.g. go swimming (still not got around to that one, so difficult with ratios etc.) go bowling (or that one) go to softplay area thingy. (did that one yesterday ;-)) there are more but can’t remember them all now. The children know them all though, and are mentally ticking them off.

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