Tuesday blog distractions

Tuesday again and another day off. Alexa woke me again and I woke the children. Both were still asleep at 6.30am, a morning miracle as my 7 year old is usually awake earlier. I got them dressed and sorted out food.  All too soon we were out the door and driving to school.

The kids were as awkward as they often are when I was parking.  Though this morning my son did wait till I had stopped before he got out of his seat and climbed into the passenger seat. As we were early he read me some of his reading book. Frustratingly he will read well but he will not discuss the book with me. This does not help with the test on Accelerated reader that he has to complete to test his understanding however, he does usually pass it. My 5 year old was to busy playing in the back of the car to want to read.

The school Christmas tree was decorated yesterday and today it stood proudly sparkling in the hall. The children thought it was lovely and meant the conversation on why mummy does not want the Christmas tree up yet started again. I am trying to put it off as long as possible. We were a little late into the hall today due to reading in the car. This then meant that all the chairs were taken, there were so many children having breakfast this morning. I asked if we could have a chair so he could sit on the end. The teaching assistant bought him a chair. He now happily sat down to enjoy his breakfast.

I left the children and came home via the cash point machine as needed money to pay the school for Santa this year. Tomorrow is a non-uniform day as the school are collecting goods for the Christmas fayre tombola.   I’m pleased that it is not a teddy tombola, like it was in the summer.  I can not part with our loved teddy bears so we bought two orphaned bears in a charity shop and then donated them.  I’m glad that I didn’t have to race to town today for bears.

My plans for the day were thrown out as I got distracted by my blog. I managed to do a load of washing and sent some emails. Reading did not happen but I did find the school jumper and I vacuumed downstairs. The vacuum cleaner today was full of fluff, the disadvantage of having a flokati rug in the bedroom. https://justmuddlingthroughlife.co.uk/2018/10/24/washing-the-flokati-rug/

I had to sit for a while with the cleaner hung over the bin, scraping out dirt and fluff.

I am a fan of Jackie Chan. A few weeks ago I pre-ordered his new book from Amazon. Today it arrived, it has now joined my pile of books that I want to read. I know that I need to read my fiction books to help with writing my novel. However, Jackie’s new book I am sure is interesting.

So today I made the decision to change my blog hosting and be self-hosted so you might notice some changes.  My web address will soon be changing but I will still be just muddling through life, I’m always muddling. It’s a brave decision on my part as it means that I need to keep blogging, there’s no giving up now. However, I am enjoying writing it.

When I collected the kids tonight, I had plans for homework and reading. This did not quite go according to plan as daddy let our son have the iPod, after the demands of wanting toast as they were hungry as usual.  I was distracted by blogging, hosting and sorting out the washing. My daughter was busy with cardboard, sticky tape and scissors. So it was after a bath and dinner that we then heard the kids read. I listened to our son whilst our little girl read to daddy. A joint effort tonight and they both read well.

Putting them to bed they didn’t go straight to sleep. There was some messing around, however, they did not reappear downstairs, so still not as bad as previous nights. The children can be so good and make us so very proud,  but they can also make us feel so stressed that it feels that smoke is coming out of our ears, like in an animated cartoon. Do other parents feel like this sometimes? They can be really good but also so difficult.

Anyway, they are both asleep now and I am now going to get some rest. Try and build up my energy for work tomorrow and the daily morning stress of being mum.