Other ways to waste time; or ways to keep your sanity when trying to ignore children who aren't tidying up.

I can find all sorts of ways to waste use up time online. There’s blogging, but you already know about that 😉

I mentioned amazon’s astore the other day, and yes, I have added another page on parenting books to my offering very recently. There’s competitions, and yes, I’ve entered another 30 or so today. And then there’s things like squidoo – if you don’t want to build your own website and go through all the hassle of setting up affiliate schemes and so on, you can use sites like squidoo to do it for you. So I’ve got crafts for children which Merry tells me, does indeed send traffic for hama beads and other craft stuff to Beadmerrily.

They still haven’t tidied up. It’s past bath time and fast approaching lights out in bed time, and Small is still throwing things around the room and Big is being stroppy. 🙁 We seem to have been out of sync all day today – they didn’t wake up until 8.39 precisely, which is well over an hour after they usually rise and shine. Our shopping trip then meant we didn’t get lunch til 2pm, so they didn’t want tea til gone 6 – and all of that explains why Small is now screaming at me as I’ve taken the football away.

I suppose I could just leave them both to it and go up to bed myself? No?


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3 responses to “Other ways to waste time; or ways to keep your sanity when trying to ignore children who aren't tidying up.”

  1. I would definitely be tempted to leave them to their tidying and dawdling and go to be myself. :-d Except MY kiddos would probably saty up all night. 😉

  2. Sorry saty=stay (obviously) 🙂

  3. Well, they managed to drag it out long enough that they didn’t get to sleep til gone 9 and getting them moving this morning is proving difficult 🙁

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