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Seems like my luck is stabilising again. Yay! Maybe it was karma biting
me in the arse for daring to work too hard on stuff that isn't that
important in the grand scheme of things, well not to me anyway.
Yesterday
I didn't get quite get as much stuff done as I'd been planning on as
Tao randomly decided to have an early nap. Tha was fine, after he'd
woken up we (finally!) ran Ruan's conscientious objection form plus the
two Famil Assistance Office forms in to the Medicare office in Freo. On
the way home the 99 we were on terminated at the Murdoch PnR which
meant we had to hang around for about ten minutes for the next one so we
could go one more stop. The only reason I didn't just walk it (would
have taken about that long) was becaue of the construction work, I
couldn't see how to get out easily with the twin pram. The cranky bus
driver on the terminating 99 thanked Tao for "being good" when we got
off which was a) sweet and b) slightly amusing considering Tao had
shrieked a couple of times on the bus due to being tired.
We
swung by the library to get out some more library books as I realise I
haven't been reading to Tao for a while and it's pretty pointless
getting Josh to do the bedtime thing with Tao as he's completely and
utterly uninterested.
I just realised how bad the above sentence
sounded. It's not that bad really, a bit taxing on me but Josh gets up
at 5:30am to walk Rar, so he's pretty tired at the end of the day when
he finally hauls his sorry carcass home at 5:30pm, sometimes later
depending on how much work he needs to do to meet deadlines etc.
Anyway
at this stage of reorganising things in my head, I seriously don't have
the time to be doing all the things that need doing so with Sprat being
at the pointy end of semester, it's pretty much Josh does the bedtime
thing and I do the dishes, or he can do the dishes and I do the bedtime
thing. I've already worked out I either can't do both coz I'm too tired
after the boobfest usually required to get both kids to sleep or by the
time I get them to sleep it's getting on and I want to do some work. I
fell into the trap once again of trying to get things done and
neglecting the kids, so screw that for a joke. Never again. Red Planet
is just going to have to crawl along, which sucks coz I REaLLY want to
get it over with.
Today we just managed to catch the bus to
playgroup, courtesy of my instinctive executive decision to go the other
way to the bus stop that appears to be slightly closer to my street
than the one I normally go to. I know which one I'm going to from here
on in, saw the 880 hauling up the road as I was approaching the bus
stop, signalled it and legged it the rest of the way which I'm sure the
kids found entertaining. Was a really nice warm up for me as well, got
my cold reptilian blood going. Thanked the bus driver profusely for
stopping for me and so did Tao.
Tao and I discussed the dynamics
of pushing the stop button and of people getting on and off the bus and
where we were going, favourite topics on the bus. I see this as a good
thing as it's kindo of hard to hold a conversation with him in the car,
we have to speak up as Josh insists on having the radio on (he can't
seem to stand the silence that happens when no one is talking) and I
have to keep turning around to look at Tao. Made it to playgroup
exactly on time and Tao immediately got down to the serious business of
playing.
We had a much bigger group this time round and I got to
meet some people off the Perth Homeschoolers forum which was pretty
cool. I have up close and personal brains to pick now of prime examples
of people who pulled kids out of school and people whose kids have
never gone to school. It was a bit chaotic at the time with all these
kids running around. Tao had a few lessons in having to share things
that weren't his with another kid about his age who was exactly as
stubborn as he was so a few tears and tantrums today.
Ruan had
good fun crawling around very cutely after things although she wasn't
able to keep up with the two yearlings that were there. I have dubbed
Jo's yearling Tank and Mel's yearling Dozer, they're both adorable big
boofer boys.
Jo kindly let me hang around til about 12:10 and
that worked out much better as we were then only waiting 10 minutes for a
bus as opposed to half an hour. I'm double checking bus times coz the
buses run weirdly. We caught an 882 back and headed home, the kids did
not go to sleep. I made a very plain lunch of rice cooked in silverside
soup and Tao ATE IT ALL. Well almost. He likes plain rice ("I love
wice Mummy.")
He goes on and off his food seemingly at random but I know what he likes.
They
went to sleep late, and I took the time to try to catch up on some
work. Issues with the baby board upgrade occupied my attention for a
little while and then I made pea, bacon and pasta soup for dinner. Josh
came home and very helpfully did the laundry and picked up and vacuumed
and then did the dishes after dinner.
I spent a bit of time
reading to Tao out of the library bag (borrowed enough books to read one
per night til Friday which is library day, we got through most of them
just then) which was nice.
I feel like I'm getting it together,
specially coz it took all bloody day to write this as I was hitting the
computer exactly as much as I should be when the kids were awake, which
is to say, just checking email and messages but not staying long :)
And now, back to folding up the laundry before resuming trying to fix the baby board. Yeesh, it's that time already.