Grrr I hate days like this!

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We have been away for a few days but got back yesterday, so today seemed like a little bit of a bonus, an extra day to do stuff before we start again on the whirlwind of school etc. It looked like being a nice day so I had planned to get some work finished, deal with some other paperwork, do some work in the garden, even book a holiday for next spring (since we have failed dismally to arrange anything overseas this year, largely because my partner and I never have a chance to talk to each other without interruptions every few seconds for long enough to actually agree anything!) and of course do things with the girls. So what actually happened? Well I woke up at 7 am and spent the next couple of hours cuddling the girls in bed and reading books and, rather unusually, explaining genetics and hormones, gender identity and sex changes to Big One. After that we got up and I made a pile of pancakes while they watched ‘Octonauts’ and then we had a late breakfast and I got the girls dressed ready to go outside. At 11:30 my partner finally surfaced and had some breakfast and we went out into the garden and managed to move the chickens to new patches and reconstruct a new run. Then Little One said she was tired and wanted to go to sleep on Mummy’s shoulder. Well I thought maybe that wasn’t too much to ask, I could snuggle her to sleep with a story and then cuddle her while I finished my work. So we came in and I made a drink and we got cosy on the sofa. Then of course Little One perked up; we read three books and she said she wasn’t tired any more and wanted to play. Of course by that time I was feeling really quite sleepy myself, and not at all like getting back to some hard work outside. Then before I had re-motivated myself Little One said she was tired again now and wanted a nap again. Cue more snuggles, she closed her eyes for about 30 seconds and then said she wanted to get up again and play with her dollies. By this time the sun had all but gone, I had got as far as taking the garden tools out of the shed but that was it, I had achieved precisely one thing on my list and to top it all my coffee had gone cold. In no time it will be dinner time (which always takes ages) and after that and getting the girls to bed I am always far too tired to actually do anything very constructive. And next week my partner (all nicely refreshed now of course after 12 hours sleep) will be away for work so I won’t get a chance to talk things over with him at all. And before you say that he works to support us all – no he doesn’t, we split the household bills between us. I often look forward to the weekends but when they arrive I wonder why I did. All rights reserved. © copyright Fleur 2015.