This weekend marks the first of a 6 week break for summer and since Izz went down to 3 day term-time only nursery this means that I’ll actually have to parent two children full time for more than a few days. Oh, and do my share of the housework and build my web empire at the same time. Not that I’m crapping myself or anything (mostly about the having to parent two children part).
Oliver is walking now. Sort of. He’s progressed from “only when nobody is looking” to “whenever he sees a reasonable gap between furniture”. We went to Ikea yesterday and for a while he went from room setup to room setup walking, stumbling, climbing on the furniture. He’s wobbly but getting there.
As I’ve been majorly sucky at making notes to turn into blog posts recently you’ll have to excuse my run of meal plans etc. It seems that my life is currently one big blur of kids-work-not actually sleep because Oliver is teething-kids-work … you get the idea. (Oliver’s bringing in molar #4 and possibly also canines #1 and #2.)
I should probably do a 2013 goal review post at some point but as it’d be “I’m failing at them all apart from the last one” I probably should wait until I have something to celebrate. Like not being a big failypants.
I upgraded my baby slow cooker that my mum bought me years ago (and has only ever made rice pudding) to a proper family size one so I can start doing my slow roasts etc without leaving the oven turned on for 4-6 hours at a time. Will be interesting to see what that does to help with the electricity bill.
That’s probably the most exciting thing that’s happened here lately so I’ll shut up now and go veg in front of Grey’s Anatomy & wait til Oliver wakes. Again.
22 Jul at 9:58 am
forget the slow cooker, a pressure cooker is where its at! :D Best thing I’ve ever bought!
22 Jul at 8:07 pm
I looked but they were much pricier than the slow cooker. I’m waiting for one to come up on freegle :D
22 Jul at 11:10 am
Well done for taking on the Aston flyover aka Spaghetti Junction. Takes serious balls for driving there, especially for a newly qualified driver.
You went to Ikea with out me :'(
Hmmmm rice pudding :D
22 Jul at 8:07 pm
Ahh well I have to confess that a) Karl drove and b) we went the back way so that he didn’t have to do spaghetti junction ;) However, after arguing about the route, arguing about how to do self-serve furniture, arguing about my measurements (which were of course correct) etc I have decided I’m never taking him again. :P