-hubs gets up at 4am, wakes me to ask if I bought his toiletries in from the caravan.
-groan that I haven't.
-hubs leaves bathroom door open so I am blinded by heat lighting.
-cannot fall back asleep for over an hour.
-finally fall back asleep only to dream I met Harry but my alarm wakes me.
-not sure whether to laugh or cry.
-lay in bed listening to Nick's iPad alarm go off and wonder why the lazy shit does not turn it off.
-realise I confiscated said iPad and it is in my cupboard.
-give Nick his iPad and wake other children.
-ask Jamie what he put in the dryer, he tells me it's his socks for P.E. I reply I asked him if he had his uniform ready the night before. He tells me he took these socks off the line and that they're wet. I tell him there are clean pairs on the couch.
-five minutes before the boys bus arrives, jamie asks if I can wash bird shit off his school hat. Sigh and run it under the tap and throw it in the dryer.
-ask Nick if he has his flute for band practice, he does not.
-tell Chloe I need to leave for work now.
-she replies she needs a container for her cooking class tonight. I tell her to worry about that later because I really need to get to work.
-she tells me she has no school bag.
-I tell her I have no patience.
-find school bag for her to use.
-drop Chloe at school and head to work.
-am asked to stay longer due to staff issues with the 4yo class after mine.
-curse wearing jeans as it's now 32'C.
-teacher asks why I'm so tired by 1.30pm
-tell her it's because I didn't bring lunch and have not yet eaten today.
-she suggests I have a cup of tea.
-remind her I do not drink fucking tea.
-finally finish work and go via supermarket before going to school.
-message hubs to remind him to pick Nick up from band practice.
-become extremely disappointed to find the ovens in the supermarket deli are not working therefore there are no roast chickens available for dinner.
-reluctantly realise I will have to cook something for dinner.
-stop at corner shop for a can of soft drink before heading to school to pick Chloe up.
-forget to hide drink as child gets in car and spots said can in 1.75 seconds and declares she is dying of thirst.
-Nick calls to tell me he is not going to band practice as he forgot his lunch and hadn't eaten all day.
-message hubs he no longer has to pick Nick up from band practice.
-arrive home and realise I still have to unpack the caravan and finish my report for tomorrow nights work meeting.
-put groceries away.
-pull all dirty washing out of caravan.
-boys arrive home from school.
-Jamie declares he's exhausted.
-I jokingly suggest he has an energy drink.
-Jamie seriously accuses me of trying to drug him.
-help Nick with his homework.
-tell children they can cook their own dinner as I have a report to write.
-hubs arrives home and gives me 'the look.'
-tell him I have 10 minutes if he's that desperate.
-find out hubs is that desperate.
-hubs offers to take Chloe to her cooking class.
-decide I'm not really hungry so eat four pieces of toast for dinner.
-sit down and watch a riveting episode of Neighbours.
-think about putting pyjamas on and finishing my report for work since it's 7pm.
-hubs remembers he has a meeting to go to.
-Jamie tells me he has to do his interview for his humanities assignment tonight.
-ask if he is fucking kidding me.
-find out he is not fucking kidding me.
-ring my dad as he is the person he needs to interview and say I'm on my way.
-ask Jamie where his interview questions are that I helped him with last week.
-find out he's lost said interview questions.
-promptly lose my shit.
-hubs blows me a kiss as he leaves and says "see you darling!"
-promptly tell him to fuck off.
-drive Jamie to my dads, leave him and pick Chloe up from cooking class and return to my dads.
-finish interview and return home.
-find it is 8.30pm and I am very, very tired.
-and very, very sad.
-decide I am too tired to finish my report as the computer is in Jamie's room and it's the only one I can use as my laptop just shit itself.
-hope I can finish report tomorrow.
-realise chocolate isn't even going to fix this.
-decide to go to bed and look at pictures of Harry.
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