Yes, I am still learning...
Things I have learned today:
1. I really really need more than 4 & 1/2 hours sleep a night.
2. Tuesdays are still Tuesdays even when you're not at work.
3. DO NOT leave apricots in a tiny bit of orange juice to come to the boil and leave the room (ie: porn is very distracting)
4. Pots that have had apricots and orange juice boiled black onto are very hard to clean.
5. I will always be running out the door to collect the kids from school bare minutes before the bell rings, no matter how well I think I've planned it, even when they finish at 12.30pm (last day of school, and I WAS going to leave home at 12pm to allow time to talk to teachers, etc...)
6. Not every mall in NZ has a McDonald's after all.
7. Two cell-phone-user-challenged people trying to find each other in an unknown mall, (with NO GODDAMN MCDONALD'S!!!, arranged meeting point, as everyone knows all malls have one, right? {see point 6}) when neither one can actually hear their phone ring and one of them has no idea how to pick up a message, gets very farcical after about a half-hour.
8. Don't put your Xmas day food list on the fridge in reach of your 3 year old (at least I assume that's why it's no longer there). It's the only list I've actually managed to make this year (apart from the Xmas card list, which surprisingly wasn't complete...) and now I've had to recreate it from scratch. *Hopes like hell I haven't forgotten anything*
9. 3yo's need dinner at 5.30, or 6pm at a pinch, NOT 7pm. (Not much worth calling food gets eaten otherwise. Oh, and yes, I DID already know this one, it's true)
10. If you're too tired to cook dinner at the proper time, NO kids will be in bed before 8.30pm, and some will still be awake long after (but since there's no school tomorrow, as long as they're in their own room, do I really care at this point?)
And that, people, is today's lesson. Learn from it. I know I did.
TUESDAY'S OVER, Thank the Lord of the Rings.
1. I really really need more than 4 & 1/2 hours sleep a night.
2. Tuesdays are still Tuesdays even when you're not at work.
3. DO NOT leave apricots in a tiny bit of orange juice to come to the boil and leave the room (ie: porn is very distracting)
4. Pots that have had apricots and orange juice boiled black onto are very hard to clean.
5. I will always be running out the door to collect the kids from school bare minutes before the bell rings, no matter how well I think I've planned it, even when they finish at 12.30pm (last day of school, and I WAS going to leave home at 12pm to allow time to talk to teachers, etc...)
6. Not every mall in NZ has a McDonald's after all.
7. Two cell-phone-user-challenged people trying to find each other in an unknown mall, (with NO GODDAMN MCDONALD'S!!!, arranged meeting point, as everyone knows all malls have one, right? {see point 6}) when neither one can actually hear their phone ring and one of them has no idea how to pick up a message, gets very farcical after about a half-hour.
8. Don't put your Xmas day food list on the fridge in reach of your 3 year old (at least I assume that's why it's no longer there). It's the only list I've actually managed to make this year (apart from the Xmas card list, which surprisingly wasn't complete...) and now I've had to recreate it from scratch. *Hopes like hell I haven't forgotten anything*
9. 3yo's need dinner at 5.30, or 6pm at a pinch, NOT 7pm. (Not much worth calling food gets eaten otherwise. Oh, and yes, I DID already know this one, it's true)
10. If you're too tired to cook dinner at the proper time, NO kids will be in bed before 8.30pm, and some will still be awake long after (but since there's no school tomorrow, as long as they're in their own room, do I really care at this point?)
And that, people, is today's lesson. Learn from it. I know I did.
TUESDAY'S OVER, Thank the Lord of the Rings.