Saturday, 7 November 2015

30-day Writing Challenge - Day 16

Bullet your day


  • 4am-ish and the darling boy comes in for a cuddle
  • Comfort is given and child replaced in bed
  • Dammit - toilet
  • 6am-ish baby crying
  • 6.30-ish little man visit
  • Endure being punched and kicked 'accidentally'
  • Feel child clamber over limbs and leave
  • Hear the pitter patter of little feet up and down the hallway
  • Hear the crash of toys
  • Hear the plinky plonky piano
  • Finally get up at 7
  • Cup of Tea
  • Finish watching Fantasia
  • Clear notifications on phone
  • Demands for bisfest
  • Call Mother
  • CBeebies on TV followed by couple of pages of CBeebies magazine & colouring
  • Baby wipe table after all extra colouring
  • 9ish husband surfaces
  • Cup of Tea
  • My own breakfast - eaten stood up in the kitchen, away from small person eyes
  • Ironing
  • Intense panic stations every time little man comes anywhere near ironing board onn account of Inspector Gadget arms
  • Husband leaves, claims work
  • Get dressed and actually remember to clean everyone's teeth
  • Sit on cold laminate floor and play stackers - 3 times
  • Play shapes - 3 times
  • Small person demands bug bug
  • Look at the rain
  • Go to supermarket in the rain
  • Walk round supermarket talking to toddler and ignoring strange looks from other shoppers
  • Walk home in the rain
  • Transport shopping, child and buggy up one flight of stairs in three trips
  • Change of clothes for damp mother and after observation lower clothes change for bottom damp toddler
  • Amidst pleas for bisfest, put away shopping
  • Lunch
  • Cup of Tea
  • Storytime in the big chair, lots of giggling at the word Grendel
  • Cup of Tea
  • Attempt to watch an episode of Bake Off 
    • Small child on one knee playing on ipad
    • Notepad on other knee in an effort to re-write book synopsis
    • Cup of Tea
  • Remembers housework and washes dishes
    • Small person plays with farm animals on kitchen floor
  • Join in
  • Make many farmyard animal noises
  • Notices fridge is leaking on the floor again
  • Has a timeout to start making a note of what doing today for bullet point blog writing later
  • Still raining
  • Feels guilty for lack of activity 
  • 10 minutes of madness 
    • playing catch and kick with ball
    • dancing
    • playing scary roaring game
  • Put sticker on Change4Life 10min movement chart
  • Demands for window - watch cars
  • Snack time for small person who begs for banana but is persuaded to apple
  • Cup of Tea
  • Put Dumbo on
    • play with Legos
    • sing row rows
    • play with farmyard animals
    • read stories
    • remove nail varnish
    • play Soda Crush
  • 3.30pmish an extremely tired small person crawls onto knee
  • Multiple nursery rhymes are sung lustily
  • Requests for Peppa
  • The pig reigns supreme
  • Remembers housework and attempts to tidy up a little
  • Banking
  • Social Visit!  Another grown up and their darling little girl
  • Cup of Tea
  • Heart wrenching pleas/sobs for bisfest/dinner
  • Reheat leftovers
  • Thank the gods for leftovers
  • Dinner
  • Biggest, longest story book bought over with huge smiles
  • Biggest, longest story book read
  • Half-way through realise nappy is leaking
  • Continue reading
  • Remembers housework, does dishes
  • Rings Mother about leaky fridge
  • Jabs drain hole at back of fridge (inside) with knitting needle - water disappears
  • Silently thanks the gods for fridge not being dead
  • Rings husband in fridge relief
  • Discusses cake
  • Remembers housework and puts washing on
  • Remembers little person and runs bath
  • Light in boys room stops working
  • All bedtime paraphernalia set up in my room
  • Little man splashed into bath
  • Wash rack emptied, folded and put away
  • Risk life and limb stepping into bathroom to wash child
  • Remove child from bathroom much damper than before
  • Attempt to dry toddler doing his best impression of Tigger
  • Remember furniture barricade hasn't been set up
  • Quickly create barricade
  • Thanks the gods for CBeebies bedtime hour
  • Light in front room dies
  • Creative use of lamp
  • Tidies bathroom
  • Tidies my bedroom
  • Checks light in boys room - working
  • Tidies boys room and gets bed ready
  • Goes to tidy kitchen, realise it's already done
  • Feels smug
  • Puts away all the toys
  • Gives in to biscuit demands
  • Cup of Tea
  • Contemplates the evening ahead and writes blog before run out of steam

Hopes for the evening:
  • Husband will arrive home from work on time
  • Dr Who will be watched
  • Cake
  • Cups of Tea
  • Will remember to empty the washing machine and rack it before bedtime
  • Time to stitch
  • Time to read
  • Attempt to fall into bed before midnight

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