random facts of life

This week

• I had to wash my darling daughters hair at 8:35 am because she had covered it with so much sticky styling paste that it was white in places. What is that stuff anyway?? I blame the school , it was Roahl Dahl Mania day and all children were asked to dress up as Roahl Dahl book characters. Annie decided to be Miss Trunchbull from Matilda (and what a Miss Trunchbull she can be!). She pulled her shortish hair back in a ponytail because it is too short for a bun. Unfortunately it is also too short to remain in the ponytail, hence the plastering with sticky paste. Then I had to redo her Trunchbull hairdo. We had to leave at 8:45.

• The same morning, I had to sweet talk Alistair into going to school. He was dressed up as George in George and the Marvellous Medicine and was worried that he might never be Alistair again if he went to school as George. It all seemed so perfectly logical to him.

• And still the same morning, I managed to keep my simmering frustration under a lid until the offspring had left for school but then, the cat was not interested in my rant about the non uniform days that seem to occur at an increasing frequency, usually with an outlandish theme. Pyjamas for example. We don't have stylish pyjamas that are fit for public display. And I don't want to see the head teacher in curlers and dressing gown. Or teachers in onsies. I feel guilty for being such a spoil sport but I really can't be bothered with such nonsense. It is not so much the fact that the kids need to dress for a theme, but the super mum competition for the best outfit is fierce and I prefer reading a book to sewing and embellishing clothes, wellies and hats, or ironing pj's. Yes, you may call me selfish. So I opt out and leave it to my creative daughter. 

• I decided that I am super mum despite my shortcomings.

• I opened lunchboxes and gagged. Were the sandwiches really that bad? 

• I took the car to go to an interview 2 miles away. I usually cycle, but I didn't want to look a mess and scare my study participants out of their pants. It was raining. Actually, I am not sure it did, it was more smirr than rain, a rain so soft you can't see it but it soaks you through to the skin. It took 40 minutes to get to my destination. I found a parking spot for which I didn't have enough money and spent another valuable few minutes looking for a free one, which was a mile away from where I needed to go. Needless to say I looked a mess.

• I bought a cat basket we probably don't need in a charity shop. But then, it would be useful for keeping yarn in, yes? Or other assorted clutter? Or maybe a small child?

• I saved Lupin from an urban fox that was cornering her on our front steps. These urban foxes are getting bolder and bolder, probably because people feed them.

• We made yogurt because we had too much milk. It wasn't very good, a bit like runny snot. 

 

• I watched Annie practice for her ballet exam and wonder why every activity has to be tested and certified. It is her fifth exam and she surely must be stage ready soon?



• I wondered if I should tidy Alistair and James bedroom (I moved the beds back to where they usually stand)

 

• I ate five jam doughnuts. I bought a pack of five for a special after school treat to share with the children. I felt peckish and ate mine on the way back from the shop. Then I felt peckish again and had second one. I thought James and Alistair are only wee and can share one. But then I thought, that would not be fair and ate another one so Annie and Sam would have to share one, too. Then I was overcome by greed and ate the remaining two as well. I didn't even feel sick. Or guilty. I am now not sure if this was actually last week?

• We bribed Sam to read a story to his little brothers. He needs a £15 pound deposit for an Alton Towers trip later this year and we have been using this as a lever for favours. It is probably not best parenting practice. Sam will be mortified to see himself wearing his special grubby teenage outfit, which he wears whenever he is not in school uniform.

• And finally, I dropped my laptop. It landed on the power cable connector, which snapped of.

 

Just some random snippets of family life..... I hope your week is shaping up nicely! Cx