1. I woke up in a good mood
2. Felix has started having a (decaffeinated) coffee in the mornings and when I was showing him how to make it I indicated there was one very important rule he had to adhere to: that when he made it he had to make his mum a cup of tea and bring it to her. Today I had my tea brought to me when I was in the shower.
3. All the children who had to be at school were at school. ON TIME.
4. I vacuumed the car.
5. I mopped the floor of the car. Yes, my car has plastic flooring. It was about the only stipulation I had on a new car. That and that there was enough space that all four children could be in said car and not able to physically touch each other. Priorities people.
6. I went out to lunch (Chef’s work: Danks St Depot) and someone else (mum) paid.
7. My two youngest children came out to lunch too and were perfectly behaved.
8. I was not late picking the boys up from school.
9. I read the boys the riot act about coming into the supermarket (the definition of a ‘treat’; the no running, no screaming, no fighting, no squealing, no anything except breathing and walking beside me; the threat of removing chosen treat for any breaking of rules) AND they adhered to it.
10. It’s 6pm and only one child is crying.
It’s official. The addition of a dinky radio, which I nicked off mum, into my kitchen has transformed mornings in this house.
The big boys know they have to be dressed and ready for school before they can play xbox, wii or on the computer. That’s right. All those rules and regulations I used to have about no TV in the mornings are long dead. Even Mum has given up telling me how you can totally pick the kids who have watched TV before school because they’re so ‘away with the fairies/off-the-planet/useless/insertanyothernegativephrasehere’. Besides, technically it’s not TV, it’s computer games. HAHA! I so win.
But then I am left with the infernal white noise of computer games and kids cheering/hissing/questioningtheumpireeventhoughit’saonewaymedium and well, that kind of drives me insane. A lot.
And now? Now I can listen to ABC Classic FM and pretend it’s having some sort of musical impact on my children. Felix asked me to turn it on this morning so I figure maybe something is seeping into those disaffected brains of theirs.
Naturally none of this has translated to us getting anywhere on time.
Baby steps people, baby steps.
Bathtime:
Portrait time!:
iPhone = kiddie crack:
THE most fun from the entire weekend – tractor rides:
Divine.
Let’s get our bearings:
It’s almost exactly 1hr 45mins from our place.
Brace yourself for some spectacular artsy photographs taken one misty morning solely to make you all green with envy:
Can you tell we had an awesome weekend?
mtc