Divide and conquer

After Saturday's craziness, I said to D that I needed to do something fun out to balance the two experiences.

 

Of course the last thing he felt like doing was being out so once we came back home from church, we split up.

 

Connor and I went shopping while Kendra and D stayed at home watching cricket.

 

I highly recommend it if you don't do this often - the kids are ANGELS when they're not competing for attention and it reminds you of why you had them in the first place :)

 

We went to the gym to swipe my card (I'm still being lazy and not going... and my butt is showing it), then went to buy new pillows.

 

I think very carefully about clothes purchases (except handbags) but I don't even think for 10 seconds about my creature comforts. I just realised this week that my pillows are annoying me so off we went.

 

We bought 4. Connor chose pillowcases for the two of them (white with blue and pink dots) and fortunately Kendra liked hers too when we got home.

 

I put their new pillowcases on the new pillows and in their beds and the two of them were SO sweet. They flung themselves onto the pillows and rolled around on them, totally savouring the experience, all while going "mmmmmm".

 

I told D, "these are definitely my kids".

 

Seriously, they were OVER THE MOON. They thanked me so nicely for their new pillows!

 

Such easy kids. This suits me down to the ground - I'll happily buy linen over toys any day :)

 

Connor had a peanut butter sandwich in the car but I ordered French toast with syrup (yum!) for me so he could eat too. He had about half a slice and then that toy with all the beads tempted him again.

 

He was amazingly well-behaved (and super cute talking to everyone) except for about 30 seconds when I had to strap him in his car seat. Has anyone else's kids suddenly started HATING car seats? He SCREAMS at the top of his voice, "no Mummy, no Mummy, NO MUMMY. WAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

 

I actually looked around the parking lot to see if anyone thought I was killing him!

 

Ten seconds into the drive he's happy again but it's nerve-wracking especially as you know I don't like paying any extra for parking and I had this vision of my 15 minutes' grace running out (since I'd already paid for my parking) and having to do the whole rigmarole again.

 

When we got home, D and Kendra were happily watching cricket (there is nothing as cute) while eating peanuts.

 

It was just what we needed - some calm and one-on-one time with the kids - to restore our frazzled nerves.

 

By the way, an interesting thing is happening. Kendra is getting more and more "into me". I think she's starting to become more aware of her girliness? because she wants to see what I wear in the mornings, watch me do make-up, wants cream, etc.

 

D has two belts he uses for work - Kendra says to him the other day, "no, Daddy, Kendra no like this belt"! Miss Bossyboots! D goes, "Kendra, at some point I do have to wear this belt" LOL

 

This morning she says to me, "Mummy, what's Connor's fish doing in Mummy's bedroom?" (good question, Baby - every evening the bedroom is kid clutter-free and every morning I find an assortment of toys as if I want to play with all that stuff).

 

So that, finally, was our weekend.

 

How was your weekend?

 

Do you go on one-on-one dates with your kids?

 

PS I need to do another Nanny V update. D and I have decided to speak to her once and for all properly. He is not happy about her son going to Zimbabwe. Also with us now reporting to my new lady boss from next week, I can't be waltzing in there at 9/ 9:30 anymore...