Monday was my actual birthday. Unfortunately, I had to go to a funeral (as I am the Church organist). I brought my mum with me so that we could drop in to an op shop on the way home. After he funeral, I went to the car and guess what, the battery was dead! (I'm not going to elaborate on possible reasons for the battery being dead, suffice to say, we weren't going anywhere in a hurry). Luckily there was a guy there who had jumper leads, however, he was driving a newish BMW and so jump starting my car could result in damage to his on board computer if we didn't disconnect his battery first... Too hard, so we just waited until a nice man riding his push bike offered us a jump start... Anyways, we eventually got going and I found a few lovely items at the op shop (score!). Once I picked up my children from my mum's house, I went home to see my husband, who just happened to have bought me a birthday present (I'm not big on presents, but he did a great job!) He thought he was being really funny, buying black plastic (I may or may not subscribe to the 3 days of darkness prophesy, which may or may not mention something about black plastic), but I thought he was being extremely practical and thoughtful. I'm going to use said plastics to build up a mound to plant strawberries (fingers crossed).
Tuesday- my daughter decided to paint her face with lip gloss while I was busy doing something with the Benj. The results were not pretty... Don't say I didn't warn you!
I spent most of the day cleaning up the bedrooms because they were pretty atrocious (thanks to Alex and Anna). The plan for the week was to have everything sorted out and tidy and organised, ready for the following week...
Wednesday- spent some time on the computer, typing out chore charts for my four and two year olds (yeah, 'cause that's going to happen). Well, most of their 'chores' are things that I already expect, I just added a couple of others to, you know, get them ready for things like doing the dishes... I don't know about other parents, but I am hanging out for kids who are old enough to do dishes. I know that in order to have kids actually do them, I need to start their training now, but I am naively optimistic at this stage :)
Thursday- I dropped the car off for a service and spent the day at my mum's. Funny story- I accidentally left Sam's phone on the windscreen of his car, and when he came to pick me up after I dropped the other car off, he asked me where it was. Well, we had driven about 12 km and his phone was still on the windscreen, next to the wiper blades. Phew! Anyways, spent the day with my mum, talking about stuff, you know, just relaxing.
Friday- Sam went down to Victor win my little brother to pick up my other brother, who had just completed a ride associated with the Tour Down Under. Me, well, I'm not so sure that you really want to know what I was doing. It wasn't pleasant. It was actually quite disgusting! Let's just say I toilet training my two year old, who went to bed with a nappy, but decided that it wasn't necessary after it had been filled :( Yuck, yuck and more yuck!
After cleaning her and her room, I finished getting the whole house in order in time for the first day of the Novena to Our Lady of Good Success (side note- if you are Catholic and have not heard about this particular devotion, get on it). Since this is such a rarity- an entire house clean at the same time, I thought I would share a photo, cos a clean kitchen is like winning the lottery, I reckon :)
Saturday will come in a later blog- it was a great day... And Sunday, well, here's a pic of what I wore to mass!
Finally, under the advice of an expert mum (and very similar to what I've read on Supernanny's website) we are trying a new approach for escapee children after bedtime... Will give an update next week, but just as a bit of a guideline, we went in to put our children back to bed 34 times the other night. They were in bed by 6:45pm and were not asleep until after 10:30pm. I would love to say that this is the exception, but that would be a lie :( oh well at least they spend that time creatively, stealing food from the fridge, taking textas to draw on things with (like sheets) etc
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