Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Do you ever have moments when your mind and brain just work in opposite directions? As I get older it seems to happen more often and in particular it happened the other night and involved my husband.
One of my children wanted to kip in with me, so my husband said he would have their room to give me more space. When I actually went to bed one of my other children had been scared by a noise outside and had also crept in to be with me. No problem, still enough room for me.
I went to bed and left it to my husband to lock up downstairs.
I was just dozing off when I suddenly remembered that the back door had been open. I sat up and shouted out loud "Have you locked the back door?". I then realised that neither of my two children would actually know this, I had just forgotten they were in with me.
I jumped out of bed, went to where my husband was sleeping and without a thought shouted out to him "have you locked the back door?".
As I thought he had just come to bed and wasn’t asleep I was thrown when he said back to me "what about the laptop?".
I hadn’t realised he was in a deep sleep, therefore woken him up and had confused him completely.
Especially as we don’t even have a laptop!
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
A big Happy Easter to everyone.
Another landmark for the year has approached, so we are now well into 2007 already.
I don’t know about your house, but in ours it doesn’t take a genius to guess what was on the breakfast menu this morning. Yes, chocolate, followed by more chocolate with a side ordering of chocolate.
Even sadder is the fact that I have been begging the children for some crumbs of chocolate, forgetting that I had been bought one by my boss. Oh well keeps mine for longer.
I don’t have a problem with the children pigging out on chocolate on Easter Sunday. My own mother reminds me of the time when she couldn’t find me on one said morning. It had gone that ‘danger quiet’ you get with children.
She found me behind the chair having opened ALL my eggs, surrounded by foil and plastic cartons merrily stuffing the chocolate.
I decided, as a parent, that any rules about chocolate on Easter Sunday have to go out of the window.
I must admit though that apart from the initial unwrapping of eggs and cramming in the first few mouthfuls of chocolate my children have never really pigged out like I used to. I even have an Easter egg left over from last year that they never ate.
I only found it last night - chocolate going to waste, what a crime!
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