Ummmm….I’m sounding like a broken record….but I slept in again! Hmmmm…I am starting to see what goal I need to be working on very soon!
How we spend day three:
- Kids all played dolls etc together
- We made traffic light jelly
- We made fruit kebabs
- The kids watched DD8′s DVD
- I spent way too much time working on getting the Playcentre workshop and course schedule sorted
- We made a huge mess, and had loads of fun with junk construction
- I went met up with 3 of my friends for a “girls night in” at my friend’s place,where I taught them how to make sushi TEMPTATON: go out and buy some yummy drink for the night
MONEY SPENT TODAY: $0.00
THINGS I HAVE LEARNED:
- Just because I am on holiday, doesn’t mean my laundry is! I have so much laundry to catch up on! What was I thinking? That the laundry would collect and wash itself?
- Stress and anxiety = Stressed and anxious Mother. I have no idea how mother’s working from home fit everything in? I took the opportunity while the kids watched the DVD to try and work on the Playcentre training schedule for next term. I need to get it sorted by the end of this week, and the added stress does not help me be a happy mother!
- Let go, regroup and rejoin the kids. Sometimes you just need to let the stress go. Park it, and address it later. It takes effort to unwind and let go of the stress, but it is so worth it. It is so much more fun to be “present” and enjoy the kids, rather than having your mind plagued with things you can not sort out while the kids are still awake. I was glad that I did this, so I was able to be “present”with the kids. We ended up making kebabs (I was being a funny mummy in the kitchen and started dancing around while DD2 and DS4 yelled out “stop” and “go”…..did I mention that there was no music…hmmmm unless you call the tunes coming out of my mouth music!), and then I went out and got the junk mail, which gave me the idea of doing junk construction with the boxes etc in our recycling bin and old catalogues etc.
- Having fun the with kids is great, but you need to keep the routines up, otherwise you pay for it later. Case and point: the laundry.
- If you do not project ahead and plan according, you will end up making more trouble for yourself. Dinner was late, which had the roll on effect of the clean up being late, and by the time I was due to walk out the door for a meeting, my hubby was left with all the tidy up and bedtime was just around the corner….oooops!
- Good conversation with Good friends + Good food = A Good night. We all staggered out of my friend’s house past midnight. We had no idea it was that late because we were having such a good natter!
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