Having just passed my condolences onto my neighbour I realised there are thing in your life that you only do as a grown-up, how depressing... or maybe not...
1. Write a 'with sympathy' card.
2. Worry about there being a shirt ironed for the morning.
3. Buy insurance.
4. Stop a child from eating too much chocolate.
5. Buy a computer game and no-one tells you what a waste of money it was (and you didn't need to save up 3 months of pocket money)
6. Leave your shoes in the middle of the living room floor for as log as you like.
7. Eat cookies just before dinner and not here the words 'you'll ruin your appetite"
Ann Pan
"Some days you're the dog,
some days you're the lamp-post"
9. Put the bins out
10. Do poo hunts in the garden
11. Practise the art of tact & diplomacy...
(thinking of the conversation in the shop last week..... "But nanny, WHY is that lady so fat?" Tis ok, she was pregnant, but even so...)
12. write a note in the house diary - 'Cat needs wormed'
13. going over to parents house to help them with DIY/ leaking washing machine/ move a piece of furniture.
Ann Pan
"Some days you're the dog,
some days you're the lamp-post"
My 17 year old daughter just said 'You're not going out dressed like that!' (I was in my gardening gear & was nipping to the shops, so, in order not to embarrass her, I sent her!)
On Wednesday, I had responded to an advert about rehoming a dog...not really the type of dog that we would usually choose, so I decided NOT to talk to Andy about it.....
So, around 2pm, I said very casually that I was popping to the shop & did he want anything....?
Anyways, 3 hours later I returned...... with a 7 mth old Boxador!! (So far, Lab temperament, Boxer face - so cute!)
On that note:
18. You don't have to beg for months to get a puppy - you can just go get one anytime!
19) You look forward to having a soak in the bath, instead of being forced to because you smell.
Unfortunately being a parent means you say in a loud voice that you are going to have a bath in the evening, look forward to it all day, then just as the bath starts to run one or more (or all in our house) of the following happen so you don't get a chance to have it
a) one of the kids decide to have a really really smelly poo in the bathroom
b) one of the kids falls out of the bunkbeds
c) the boys decide to try and kill eachother
d) the baby wakes up crying as its teething
e) you realise that there are no ironed shirts/packed lunches/clean pants for the morning
f) you realise that after dealing with all of the above it is 11pm your knackered and you just go to bed instead!!
20) you wake up in the morning and have a quick shower and forget how much you had looked forward to a soak, but instead time yourself to save water
Sarahx
(dreaming of a nice one off soak in the bath since Feb 2009)
the ever growing luvpie household currently contains, 4 boys, 4 chickens, 2 cats, 2 rabbits, 4 fish, an empty tropical fish tank waiting new arrivals, now are we daft to look at our broody hen thinking, if we got some fertilised eggs........
Annpan wrote:21. You count the months since your last nice long soak in the bath
Annpan (waiting for a nice long soak in the bath since May 2006)
Wow, although I admit to having one more recently but purely because I threw a hissy fit, cried, and stomped round the house, resulting in mr luvpie running a bath and putting a glass of wine next to it, I do believe his main idea behind this was to make sure I was in a seperate room to him, so he had peace and quiet for an hour!!!!
And (I know terrible grammer) whats this, go to the loo without anyone following you, you either lie, have girls or have an outside toilet Rosendula!
Sarahx
the ever growing luvpie household currently contains, 4 boys, 4 chickens, 2 cats, 2 rabbits, 4 fish, an empty tropical fish tank waiting new arrivals, now are we daft to look at our broody hen thinking, if we got some fertilised eggs........
Tis ok, she was pregnant, but even so...)
(I was in my gardening gear & was nipping to the shops, so, in order not to embarrass her, I sent her!)
