Oh my goodness it's been such a long while since my last posting, and to be honest I have no excuse. Weirdly, as I'm due to go back to full time work next week (new job, arrggghhh!) I now feel compelled to blog!
I'm feeling just a teensy bit bad, guilty, sad, terrified, excited about going back to work. Oh yes, I have been doing a part time cleaning job and no disrespect to anyone who does that for a living, it just didn't feel like a real job to me, as it's not sitting in the office looking at a computer screen I guess! But as of next week that'll be me.
What will be come of Mr F? Dramatic pause.......
Well.........big breath: we'll be getting up at some ungodly hour (or normal time for any working parent) like 7.00am, and leaving the house around 8.10am to drop off early at pre-school (they are heaven sent!) to get to work at 8.30am. Then I'll do a morning's work, as will Mr F, and his will no doubt be way more strenuous and full-on than mine. Then I'll be jumping in the car at lunch time to collect from pre-school to drop home to Daddy who's having a little work break, well it wouldn't do for both parents to be at work at the same time, now would it?! I jest! That wasn't the initial plan, but.......adaptable we are! Then, I plan to walk back to work from home, I know, how fabulous is that? I've got a job so close to home that I can walk it! I still can't really believe it!
So for the next few weeks hopefully, Daddy and Mr F will be doing some new male bonding! OMG! I hope they don't kill each other, they won't will they? No of course they won't. What on earth am I worrying about?! It'll be good for them both, character building. And of course I hope my OH will see just how hectic life can be with a 3 and half year old busy little bee. Will I be doing the grumpy Mummy routine when I get in from work? "What's all this mess? Why's the dinner not ready? What have you been doing all day? Child care's easy, you should try working for a living?" Nah, probably not. But I will be silently clocking them up, never fear!
Ah, my boys spending time together, how wonderful. If today was anything to go by it'll all be just fine. Today was Daddy's birthday, and it started with Mr F jumping on the bed to give Daddy a birthday kiss and cuddle and a happy birthday! Ah bless. Then the boys had lunch together as Mummy was busy with pre-school stuff and Mr F told Daddy all the surprises Mummy had in store for his birthday! Obviously not all the surprises (!), but all the ones he knew about; carrot cake, present, card. He spilled the lot! Remind me never to tell Mr F a bone-fide secret!
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
After a bit of a frantic start to the day, things definitely got better.
We got to pre-school a few minutes late, partly due to the frantic morning getting ready to leave the house, but also because when we got out of the car in the car park, a group (is it a gaggle?) of geese flew right over us, honking away as geese do. It's such a special sight, I was totally caught up in the moment, pointing the geese out to Mr F, following their flight as far as we could see. Mr F said something which I didn't hear due to being away with geese (!), "what did you say sweetie?" I asked thinking he was as enthralled as me, "can I play football?" was the question of complete irrelevance (to me anyway!) and bang, there I was back down to earth, thanks!
We did some gardening together this afternoon. I cut things back and Mr F spread them around the garden for me! No, that wasn't what I wanted, but hey something's aren't worth an argument. We found a couple of caterpillars which distracted him for a short while, but I think he was somewhat disappointed to hear that Mummy didn't know where the caterpillars were going. Sometimes I think I completely lack imagination as I could have made up a wonderfully exciting fairy tale about the caterpillar instead of being a misery Mum! Next time.
Daddy goes back to work tomorrow after 10 days off, so that will be interesting to see how Mr F reacts. Will he not care or not notice or will he harp on about Daddy all afternoon? No prizes for guessing the right answer, it's just for fun!
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We got to pre-school a few minutes late, partly due to the frantic morning getting ready to leave the house, but also because when we got out of the car in the car park, a group (is it a gaggle?) of geese flew right over us, honking away as geese do. It's such a special sight, I was totally caught up in the moment, pointing the geese out to Mr F, following their flight as far as we could see. Mr F said something which I didn't hear due to being away with geese (!), "what did you say sweetie?" I asked thinking he was as enthralled as me, "can I play football?" was the question of complete irrelevance (to me anyway!) and bang, there I was back down to earth, thanks!
We did some gardening together this afternoon. I cut things back and Mr F spread them around the garden for me! No, that wasn't what I wanted, but hey something's aren't worth an argument. We found a couple of caterpillars which distracted him for a short while, but I think he was somewhat disappointed to hear that Mummy didn't know where the caterpillars were going. Sometimes I think I completely lack imagination as I could have made up a wonderfully exciting fairy tale about the caterpillar instead of being a misery Mum! Next time.
Daddy goes back to work tomorrow after 10 days off, so that will be interesting to see how Mr F reacts. Will he not care or not notice or will he harp on about Daddy all afternoon? No prizes for guessing the right answer, it's just for fun!
X
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Good morning. Another bright and beautiful day!
As the sun is shining, obviously Mr F is playing outside today on his slide and swing in the garden. Oh, silly me I was daydreaming, he's sat in front of the tv watching Little Einsteins, his new favourite tv programme. This is slightly better than his new favourite toy, the iPad! It was a bad parenting idea to let him have some games on that as it's really hard to pry it away from him. They are educational games, but even still.
Yesterday we went to Granddad's. It's only about 40 minutes drive, but without fail Mr F will be asleep before we get there and yesterday was no different, falling asleep about 10 minutes before arriving. I parked on the drive and left him sleeping in the car for a few minutes, but next door was having some building work with a cement mixer lorry parked outside so it was noisy and also what little boy doesn't like a cement mixer!
Once he was awake we went into the kitchen and he then spent the whole time peering round the back door to see the cement mixer, and jumping up and down with excitement. So Granddad took him to the end of the drive to watch the cement mixer in action, wow!
Then we gave Granddad a small project to do in his workshop and watched him in action. I was given some wooden tunnel and bridge pieces that wouldn't stand up on their own, so Granddad made some supports to make it work and then he made a top piece for it too. So now it's an integral part of the Thomas railway track and is the perfect platform for Cranky the Crane. So cool!
After Granddad's we decided to eat out as it was mine and Daddy's anniversary the day before. We ate in a nice pub, The Swan and despite a fairly lengthy wait for food, we had a lovely meal (thank goodness I had the Alphablocks magazine and a tin of pencils in my bag otherwise we'd have been in trouble). I had beef stroganoff, Daddy had steak and new potatoes and Mr F had pizza, chips, peas and sweetcorn, followed by another lengthy wait and then delicious vanilla ice cream. Yum.
Off home for a wind down and then early to bed. Yep, too good to be true. For the second night running, Mr F threw up and I had to change his PJs and strip the whole bed again. Poor little man. I have 2 duvets on the washing line today, thank goodness it's a sunny day. Fingers crossed for a no problem night tonight. Enjoy pictures from Thursdays pre-school. xx
As the sun is shining, obviously Mr F is playing outside today on his slide and swing in the garden. Oh, silly me I was daydreaming, he's sat in front of the tv watching Little Einsteins, his new favourite tv programme. This is slightly better than his new favourite toy, the iPad! It was a bad parenting idea to let him have some games on that as it's really hard to pry it away from him. They are educational games, but even still.
Yesterday we went to Granddad's. It's only about 40 minutes drive, but without fail Mr F will be asleep before we get there and yesterday was no different, falling asleep about 10 minutes before arriving. I parked on the drive and left him sleeping in the car for a few minutes, but next door was having some building work with a cement mixer lorry parked outside so it was noisy and also what little boy doesn't like a cement mixer!
Once he was awake we went into the kitchen and he then spent the whole time peering round the back door to see the cement mixer, and jumping up and down with excitement. So Granddad took him to the end of the drive to watch the cement mixer in action, wow!
Then we gave Granddad a small project to do in his workshop and watched him in action. I was given some wooden tunnel and bridge pieces that wouldn't stand up on their own, so Granddad made some supports to make it work and then he made a top piece for it too. So now it's an integral part of the Thomas railway track and is the perfect platform for Cranky the Crane. So cool!
After Granddad's we decided to eat out as it was mine and Daddy's anniversary the day before. We ate in a nice pub, The Swan and despite a fairly lengthy wait for food, we had a lovely meal (thank goodness I had the Alphablocks magazine and a tin of pencils in my bag otherwise we'd have been in trouble). I had beef stroganoff, Daddy had steak and new potatoes and Mr F had pizza, chips, peas and sweetcorn, followed by another lengthy wait and then delicious vanilla ice cream. Yum.
Off home for a wind down and then early to bed. Yep, too good to be true. For the second night running, Mr F threw up and I had to change his PJs and strip the whole bed again. Poor little man. I have 2 duvets on the washing line today, thank goodness it's a sunny day. Fingers crossed for a no problem night tonight. Enjoy pictures from Thursdays pre-school. xx
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