Up before 9

and blogging before 10, on a Sunday at that! In fact, I was up before Small 🙂 and that never happens on a weekend.

Let’s see, I blogged yesterday middle of the afternoon, there wasn’t an awful lot else that went on. I used a timer and did a whole 15 minutes of housework – I really loathe housework. You can’t even tell what I did 🙁 There’s damp washing in a basket in the kitchen that I washed then couldn’t figure out where to hang out as the heating isn’t on indoors anymore so it won’t dry in the bathroom, but the line outside is still full of the several times rained upon washing. The washer itself has an abused duvet in it, that also needs to be draped somewhere to dry.

Kids are making birthday cards for today’s party, and I’m beginning to feel horribly guilty about not having arranged anything for Small’s forthcoming fourness. Just snapped at Big after she asked “what’s after B in birthday” and why oh why does this keyboard insist on swapping the ” and the @ around?

Hm, the 11 hours sleep (I went to bed at 9.45 last night) appears to have stopped the shaking but not done an awful lot for my mood. Or maybe that’s because I haven’t drunk my cup of tea yet.


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9 responses to “Up before 9”

  1. well, you were up way before me then! hugs

  2. a gentle LOL about your housework style..sounds very much like mine…I regularly have baskets of wet washing sitting around and regularly leave sheets on line to be rained upon..when they finally come in the house stiff and sun bleached I get the family to smell them and make a big deal out of how lovely and ‘fresh’ they smell and comment on how you cannot get that out of a bottle. LOL.
    And ‘abused duvet’ in washer…hmmmm…mind boggles.
    Ash has just had his four year mark and I got around it by staying well out of it…a spontaneous celebration arose due to efforts of MIL and dh and kids….it’s way too stressful and guilt inducing for me. Bless, though, ..they are getting to be big boys now aren’t they? 🙂

  3. Have been there with the housework… We have a forest of airers that live in our bedroom after we got sick of ‘whole house decorated with laundry’ look.
    Drink more tea.

  4. The best birthday parties, in my not-so-humble opinion, are the last minute spontaneous celebrations with the people who happen to be a part of one’s daily social life – family or friends or both.
    Making a cake with the birthday person, and giving them cool stuff to decorate it with.
    and yes, definitely more tea needed 🙂

  5. the problem with that Emma, is that the children’s daily social life is an hour up the road, and our annual social life is spread all around the country and therefore the chances of a spontaneous celebration are next to none. And Small wants a party. He’s been to lots of other ppl’s parties, and he doesn’t remember any of his own.

  6. how long have you got till the fourness? You wanna brainstorm?

  7. the fourness occurs day after bank holiday, and I’ve just discovered, to compound my incompetence, that the school is probably shut that week. meaning that I don’t only have a party to cope with, I have childcare to cope with. Aargh, I really am completely useless at this stuff.
    At the moment I’m thinking of either speaking to the school principal to ask whether it’s feasible to borrow the school for a do (someone is doing precisely that next week, so possibly it can be done) or frantically ringing the two soft play places in Brighouse to see if they have any openings.
    Our house is too small, too cluttered, and too remote to do what he would want in the way of a party I think (he basically wants to run around and shout a lot 🙂 )

  8. “Why does this keyboard insist on swapping the ” and the @ around?”
    Ours do that when they’re set to American.

  9. Yes, but I don’t think this one is. Or at least, I didn’t do that to it.

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