Well, we're already halfway through the first week of the summer holidays! What have we achieved so far? Bugger all. So much for doing something every day. Best laid plans & all that jazz. I at least half expected to get a picnic or something out of the way by now but laziness appears to have taken over. Apart from nipping to the shops, we've literally done nothing of any particular value. Whoops. I can see my plan for us to do something, no matter how small, has fell flat on it's face within days. The shame. I think that I may have been either a bit over ambitious or totally delirious to think that we'd actually manage to pull it off.
At least we've spent some quality time together right enough. O spent most of the week outside in the garden & has taken to communicating with birds. I actually watched him attempt to interact with a pigeon yesterday. W & I had a bit of fun tonight as well. Coming up with stuff to do is usually left to me but the little dude decided it would be fun to write a story together. Consisting of him drawing pictures & dictating to me what to write next to them. Kids have the most awesome imaginations ever. I wonder if it dilutes as we come into adulthood or if I've literally never had any imagination whatsoever because I try to come up with stories for him & generally fail if I'm honest. I really wish I could find my camera to share the wonderful giant/robot/mummy/dinosaur affair that we concocted together. Probably the highlight of the evening was noticing he had drawn a superman sign on his chest & then attempted to draw a cape on his own back. I swear, if it wasn't for these kids, my life would be so dull.
On a less pleasant note, I had to talk to someone about O's teeth. Oh the guilt & shame of having to confront the fact that you can't brush your child's teeth therefor they have started to rot. I actually cried. I'm so terrified that he's going to lose his two front teeth but we've literally came to a point where there's nothing else I can try but keep on going with everything we've already tried. I've never met a child so traumatised by the whole toothbrushing process in my whole life. Although admittedly I'm only 25 so there's only so many children I've met thus far. Yesterday afternoon, I actually told my neighbour I was concerned she'd contact social services due to the bloodcurdling screams coming from my bathroom at night after bathtime. It's horrendous. You've never known stress until you have a 2 year old doing the worm on your knee, screaming & totally pitching a fit. Typically, we both end up in tears. Just praying to God the dental team can sort us out because I think I might tear my hair out if I can't get those teeth brushed properly soon.
The day, as a whole, has been a little bit of a let down. I spent a large part of my morning , mourning a great loss. My trusty companion, by my side through good times & bad has passed. My Kindle died at some point during the night. What a sense of guttedness I can't describe. Now, I've had a broken Kindle before but usually it's been a result of someone's stupidity but it literally just died without warning. I was halfway through Jane Eyre & now have to wait on a copy of it coming into my local library so I can finish the bloody thing! On top of that, I'd just bought ingredients to make dinner from a recipe book I'd just recently bought on Kindle so I'm sitting with a varying set of foodstuffs & no bloody recipe to cook from! Google, thankfully, came to the rescue (not for the first time, I must add) & I managed to download the Kindle PC thingymajigger. Unfortunately, by that point it was like 7pm by the time we actually managed to sit down to eat. Then no bugger ate it! Mum put hers by "for later" (due to previous experience, I know I'm going to be scraping it in the bin at 4pm tomorrow after I go to preheat the oven & find out there's still a plate of bloody food in there!!!), Ellie pretty much just swirled it around her plate, eating a few bites of chicken here & there, & Charlie, who apparently loved it & was going to eat it all, must have eaten about half a chunk of chicken. Bloody waste of food & a total waste of my (rather precious) time! *AND* I hung a washing out & it started bucketting with rain. Thank you Mother Nature for lulling us into a false sense of security, thinking we were having summer this year!
Well, maybe tomorrow will be a bit sunnnier & manage to actually tick something off the summer bucket list. Not likely but as they say, "always look on the bright side of life" *skips off whistling*.
- M
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