Fail day

[ailbhe]

Today is kind of fired. Linnea has a weird skin thing going on - her elbows, of all things, are rashy. She was screaming in her sleep at 6am. I'm knackered. I can't face eating but I'm starving of the hunger. Emer is annoying and Astrid isn't getting the attention she deserves. I need to hang laundry, wash laundry, bring in dry laundry and put it away, empty and refill the dishwasher, pick up the floors, blah blah.

So far I have:

Cleaned and dressed three children
Dressed myself
Helped Linnea a bit with her Khan Academy stuff and an abacus
Taken delivery of the kids' winter gear - ski mittens, ski trousers, hat and scarf for Astrid, tube scarf for me. It's all H&M's finest so not actually ski gear but it will be a sight better than last year's purple fingers and knees.
Made my own bed
Sorted the kids' clothes out - in-use and dirty laundry have been separated
Sorted a load of laundry ready to go on
Found kids' Girls' Brigade uniforms (need to seriously think about the enormous goddishness of GB, it's much worse than I initially believed)

13:15: Done:
empty washing machine
eat something, anything
bring in clean dry laundry
hang out wet
put on dirty
make lunch


Edit 15:30:
took hedmeds
Hung second load of laundry
Washed a special-wash skirt and started the machine doing a rug
Painted everyone's faces
Nursed Astrid down to sleep
Emailed next door's landlady about the music and got a working phone number, we hope, so we can speak to him about it next time
Got the girls an afternoon snack - they are now serving themselves cold potatoes and mayonnaise
Had a long conversation with Linnea about giraffes, mammals, fish, crustaceans, where lions and tigers live, how to cook lobster, flatfish, and laundry.

Comments

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

Brownies/Guides instead of Girls Brigade?

[ailbhe]

It's significantly more expensive and much further away and harder to get to. There is a local Scouts but they won't take them younger than 6. I think I just need to talk to my children firmly about God, which is slightly at odds with my letting-them-figure-it-out policy.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I would be genuinely fascinated to know what you'll tell them.

One more item for your done list- lived in the future! :D

[ailbhe]

Well, I asked whether she thought Jesus was like magic, and said that I didn't think much of a God who helps some people but leaves others to starve to death, but I did like the idea of people doing the best they could to do good things in the world... this is all stuff she's heard me say before, I think.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

Beavers is probably from aged 5, like Rainbows (junior version of brownies) Kate currently goes to Brownies, Holly gave up on Rainbows as really she doesn't liek to commit herself to going to something every week. She is worse than me for procrastinating!!!

[ailbhe]

The place near us is 6. If it were 5 Emer could go too, but it's not.

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

Beavers doesn't start till six.

[taimatsu]

Local Woodcraft Folk does not have a group for the right ages. I am sort of a tiny bit thinking about asking why and suggesting I could get involved.

[taimatsu]

The Brownies I used to help at met on St George's St, which is not sooo much further than GB, is it?

[ailbhe]

Last time I looked, the closest group was in Caversham.

[taimatsu]

Hmm. Well, there definitely used to be one at St George's and also one at the Salvation Army in the town centre, and another at English Martyrs up near Prospect Park. They can't all have closed down!

[ailbhe]

There's a group at St George's for children aged 10 and up, and one at the New Hope Church for age 7 and up (not too bad to get to, that one), Palmer Park ditto, and I can't find the town centre one at all. It isn't easy to get info online though. Lots of the guiding websites are broken or out of date.