on IM, through the net, IRL as well.
Kirsty pinged me within minutes of my post this afternoon, and although it took a while to get organised, I dragged the kids out of the house and over to hers. Wept on her shoulder for a bit (quite literally, I assure you), drank tea and made clocks (see Jan, we did need the paper fasteners) before leaping back into the car to go to ballet.
You’d think that Small would tire himself out running up and down the corridor there really, but he doesn’t seem to…
Got home and nutritious beans on toast was about the best I could come up with (well it is after six by the time we get back) and while the children were eating the phone rang. Claire is someone I’ve met at the local Chesterfield group, she’s techy too, and she’d read my blog and wanted to check on me and offer assistance. She’s going to come up on Monday and help me start excavation of my house – I’d like to get Small into the other bedroom with Big, but I’m not sure whether we can organise the required furniture that rapidly. If not we’re going to see what we can sort out of the garage so that we can sort out the dining room and regain some living space down here. Thanks Jan for the Jonathan offer – I think I’ll be taking you up on that fairly rapidly.
Kirsty and Barbara and I might well start some sort of three way child swap thing going too, giving each of us some regular time off. And you never know, I might list a book or three…
Given that waiting for Small to fall over hasn’t been working too well recently, I took him upstairs and fought with him for half an hour til he gave up and went to sleep. So I’m childfree now, and going to go find some food. I might get a bit of work done *and* get to bed at a reasonable time!
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9 responses to “What wonderful friends I have”
Beans on toast is a perfectly balanced meal. It has vegetables, a good vegetarian protein balance and carbohydrate. What more could you ask for?
beans on toast is great! It’s in my healthy kids/beat yourself up about meals type recipe books ;o)
Hope you feel better, you sound it. (((Jax)))
btw, if you give me a box of books, I’d be happy to list what you’ve got somewhere. i’d quite enjoy it actually!
Well done you. Chips and something breaded out the freezer bunged in the oven was all I managed this evening too. Thought about beans to accompany but didn’t get that far…
Well done 🙂
glad you’re feeling a bit better. Friends are good 🙂
mine got toast and yogurt! Beans on toast is a fav meal of mine 🙂 Well done everyone here for the postive action. Jax- well done for asking for( sort of!) and taking help!
Beans on toast eh? Well at least you managed to bother venturing into the kitchen which is more than I did: I got as far as telling my other half to buy take out! You can’t beat beans on toast quite frankly, especially with cheese on top 🙂
Yep Beans on toast with lovely butter on the bread are yummy. Glad you’ve got friends IRL you can rely on down there Jax – talk tomorrow. Hope you get some sleep tonight.
Sorry I missed it yesterday ((hugs)) anyway.
I just wanted to empathise with the sleeping. B (2) is appalling at going to sleep. Last time we waited for him to fall asleep on his own we were still sat here at 1.30am! Hes upstairs now on his computer still going strong and it *is* hard to have no time to yourself at all. I did get into a really good routine for a while whereby I took all three of them upstairs, enforced the no lights rule and just cuddled (aka held strait jacket style) B until he gave in and laid still. Once (only once unfortunately!) I even had them all asleep by 6.45pm. That was heaven. Even when hes up early and doesn’t nap it still takes him up to 2 hours to go to sleep at night, he just doesn’t seem to have an off switch!
I hope you find something that works for you and I do really recommend the getting him into his own room method. Although at the moment B tends to fall asleep in our bed because otherwise he wakes the other two up too much with his screeching he does sleep loads better once hes moved into his own bed. If hes in with us all night he spends alternate times kicking me in the head whilst headbutting DH and vice versa which means we all end up awake and annoyed but in his own bed he has even been known to sleep all night (where night constitutes midnight to 6am you understand ;-).
I do think some kids just don’t need as much sleep though, DS1 goes to bed fine but gets up very early and DS2 is the only one who has a vaguely “normal” sleep pattern at all.
Now if anyone has a remedy for snoring dogs speak up now because its the dog that woke me up 4 times last night, I thought the boiler was exploding!!