Despite recent suggestions otherwise, the children are still addicted to screen time. I’m not quite sure what to do about it – I’d like to let them autonomously work through it, but behaviour deteriorates rapidly around here if they do nothing but stare at flickering images or play puter games, and I’m not sure I have the willpower to wait until they sort it out for themselves. Hm. Constructive criticism in the usual place please.
So Monday involved far too many screen time, at least for Small. Think I managed to get him to read half a chapter of his book, but that was about it. Big however, did some more sewing with me in the afternoon, we made two reversible wrap skirts, one that just about fits the enormous toddler doll, and one which fits her smaller baby doll, only a shame that he’s a boy really 😉 There was a delay in that it took me 1 1/2 hours to get the machine to pick up the bottom thread after I reloaded the bobbin – it appears that you have to push pretty hard to get the bobbin to stay in correctly in a Singer 1507, and it doesn’t say that in the manual.
Hohum.
After that, tea was running a bit late, and I was a bit devoid of inspiration. We’d got carrots, courgettes, onions and cabbage left from the veg box, so I did carrot sticks, then courgette and onion kebabs. Apparently they were horrendously horrid according to Big, who couldn’t cope with the courgette at all. Small didn’t try them.
I quite enjoyed them though. Oh well.
And so to bedtime. When I discovered that the washing that I’d carefully folded and piled in separate heaps on Small’s bed to make it easier for him to put away had been thrown on the floor. I was not best pleased. He is pushing his luck in this type of area atm, refusing to do the smallest chore and expecting to be waited on hand and foot. Any requests for him to assist results in overblown reactions and a distinct lack of cooperation. I had to walk away last night as I couldn’t deal with his attitude, so the first part of my evening was not nearly as pleasant as it could have been.
Once they were in bed, I recovered with an episode of CSI Miami and then had an early night, as it’s swimming Tuesday morning and we had a playdate on the beach planned for after.
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