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ailbheCan't do it justice. Yesterday will one day make a funny blogpost. Morning involved human and cat excreta all over the house. Then we (me, L who was ok, E who wanted to be at home, and A who didn't want to wear ANY clothes but DID want to lie on the ground screaming a lot; I carried her partially undressed and barefoot to the surgery) went to the GP and no-one wanted to go home afterwards so we went to town. We spent FOUR HOURS buying shoes for two of three children. We had a lovely lunch together. Everyone refused to go to the loo at convenient times and needed to go at inconvenient times. A staged a sit-down protest on the way to the bus-stop home; we stopped for a snack. She wet herself, her clothes, and a bench in a (town centre eatery I will not name, because I just fled the scene almost in tears and didn't own up, because I am scum.)
We fled to Becky's shop, where Becky gave us the actual honstergod shirt off her back (betwewen her fleece top and her thermal vest, but still the tshirt off her back) and I dressed A in E's vest and Backy's tshirt and then I ate a whole bag of sweeties until Rob came and rescued me.
HOWEVER I didn't lose my temper and no-one lost their temper with me.
HIGH POINTS: the departments in which A lay on the floor screaming (partially because she broke her fairy wand, partially because she wasn't allowed to keep the scissors and sellotape from the cash register where I mended it, partially because she's very tired and fragile from a year of sleeping so badly she hardly grows at all) included: Children's shoes, children's clothes, children's accoutrements (nursery, apparently), menswear, men's underwear, ladieswear, women's fashions (they might be the same one with different signage), toilets, customer collections, and an electricals department I didn't get to identify properly because my toddler was howling and my elder children were fractious. I WAS SO GLAD I WAS A SEASONED PARENT.
OTHER HIGH POINTS: A kept running into things; bollards, furniture, walls. She's SO TIRED.
Today, there was also lots of biology and then we had to leave the house or kill each other, and it was RAINING, so they ran delightedly up the road IN THE RAIN shrieking in glee. Whu? But they whizzed all over our end of town for three hours, recycling bottles in the rain with delicious glee, caroming off the library walls until I removed them forcibly, carrying heavy things around supermarkets, running like mad in loops and spirals to make each stretch of footpath longer.
Yargh.
Still, two of them are asleep and one is doing maths.
We fled to Becky's shop, where Becky gave us the actual honstergod shirt off her back (betwewen her fleece top and her thermal vest, but still the tshirt off her back) and I dressed A in E's vest and Backy's tshirt and then I ate a whole bag of sweeties until Rob came and rescued me.
HOWEVER I didn't lose my temper and no-one lost their temper with me.
HIGH POINTS: the departments in which A lay on the floor screaming (partially because she broke her fairy wand, partially because she wasn't allowed to keep the scissors and sellotape from the cash register where I mended it, partially because she's very tired and fragile from a year of sleeping so badly she hardly grows at all) included: Children's shoes, children's clothes, children's accoutrements (nursery, apparently), menswear, men's underwear, ladieswear, women's fashions (they might be the same one with different signage), toilets, customer collections, and an electricals department I didn't get to identify properly because my toddler was howling and my elder children were fractious. I WAS SO GLAD I WAS A SEASONED PARENT.
OTHER HIGH POINTS: A kept running into things; bollards, furniture, walls. She's SO TIRED.
Today, there was also lots of biology and then we had to leave the house or kill each other, and it was RAINING, so they ran delightedly up the road IN THE RAIN shrieking in glee. Whu? But they whizzed all over our end of town for three hours, recycling bottles in the rain with delicious glee, caroming off the library walls until I removed them forcibly, carrying heavy things around supermarkets, running like mad in loops and spirals to make each stretch of footpath longer.
Yargh.
Still, two of them are asleep and one is doing maths.
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Wow.
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Date: 2013-04-19 06:44 pm (UTC)Yesterday, the boys poured handfuls of bread flour and table sugar into the dog food, and then flushed their toothbrushes down the toilet. The toilet is still plugged. But a screaming fit all through the store is so horrible. Yay for keeping your cool!