What I Did On My Ordinary Day

[ailbhe]

Once we'd finished the houseowrk today, Linnea and I sat and watched Teletubbies while eating our snack. Then I put her in the buggy and we went into town. She sat patiently for about an hour while I looked in Woolworths and Boots for a CD player, and in Boots for various nappy bits that they didn't have.

Then we went to the Forbury (a park) for our lunch, and now we both have grass-stains on our knees and mud on our shins. Linnea also has grass-stains on the rest of her trousers, and mud everywhere, but I'm a little more restrained. She saw a football and promptly appropriated it from a boy called Pablo who was a little older than she but not much. He kicked it to her, she ran after it, picked it up, and handed it back. Then they started to play chasing, which got a bit hair-raising as they headed off around corners and towards gates and so on. Linnea didn't eat her egg, because she found her muffin instead. She did eat some cucumber and pine nuts and rice cakes though, so she's not solely existing on junk food. Homemade organic junk food.

After the Forbury and a little pigeon-chasing, we went to the library where we sat on big fluffy cushions and read books. I picked up my reserved Bujold and changed her nappy, and by the time I'd reached the centre of town she was asleep again. So I shied off into a bookshop and bought a peppermint tea and sat down and read my book. Never exert self while baby resting. That way lies utter devestation. Must try to remember this.

OK, OK, I did pause in the shop to check the gift books an note the details of some good-looking publishers doing the kind of thing I think my pomes would fit nicely. I haven't done anything with the information but at least now I have it.

When she woke up I fed her, and we went to some more shops for more exciting things. In the end I chose the CD player from Woolworths because it was cheap and adequate. It's for her room, as we're currently using a personal CD player and a couple of computer speakers, and if the baby monitor is on the computer speakers pick up the most awful noises, and anyway it's in three seperate parts and needs a lot of plug sockets and wire-running and so on. The new one is a "boombox" (a boombox? I ask you!) and has only one wire.

Then we came home, arriving about 3:30 pm, and were promptly visited by my friend and her husband and their toddler and a 9-day-wonder weighing about 8lb 8oz at a guess. Linnea wanted to hug and cuddle the other toddler, who is a month older but considerably less - ah - robust, shall we say (my child is robust, yours is tomboyish, hers is a thug) and she knocked him down. So we turned the telly on to make her freeze transfixed, and to stop him crying. It worked.

They left, Rob came home, we had dinner, did the bath and bed bit, and here I am.

I have a smidgin of housework to do, but I'd like to note for official purposes only that I have had a really, really wonderful day. And I'm exhausted.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a wonderful day!

I have a smidgen of envy :-)

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

What a cool day :) I decided yesterday, that the aim of my weekdays is to look after my children, feed them, clothe them & keep them clean (apart from exciting grass stains etc from playing)

Anything else can wait until the weekend & if I achieve it during the week, it's a bonus.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Fantastic day! A day that finishes without dirt on a child or their clothes is a day where something's not gone right!

Does L watch the telly like YoungBloke does? From roughly 2cm away? I'm going to have to put his toddler table in front of the box again - I stopped once he stopped putting sticky hands on the screen but apparently that was too soon!