Now, for the boring stuff.
Apr. 5th, 2010 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgNo, I didn't get half a day off Friday. Jim blew the coverage (and his anti-freak out medication) for the completion of a crown visit on Friday, so I got handed a very truculent little boy at work on Friday, leaving me to write yet another 'forgive me, but' email to my boss and dash home.
Kid is doing his job - which is pressing both of us as hard as possible to be really Mean Parents as often as he can. I've started explaining that making noise just to make noise? Is not nice and will now get you into trouble. You have something to say, that's fine - but nattering on and on and on just to interrupt a conversation is no longer okay.
It's a work in progress. You knew that, right?
Saturday, I actually got to spend some time with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catsonmars, rent our storage space and send many Sims to the happy hunting grounds via cowplant - just for Tommy and Jim's benefit. McDonald's has HTTYD toys for Happy Meal time this month, so guess where lunch has been this weekend?
Sunday, we woke up to completely still air - so no early morning kite work. We dug into the easter baskets the bunny brought (*winks*) and ate breakfast made out of some of the hardboiled eggs. (Yum.) For the first time ever, all three of us made it to church - this is the ONE Sunday Jim is not on, due to the holiday (in his world, holidays are prized moneymakers you bid to WORK ON, not avoid) and while it was unfortunate that it was an Easter Sunday (and you do have to cover the material), it did give him a glimpse of what church is actually like on the days he's not around. There was also an Easter Egg Hunt - most of the cities had to cancel theirs due to budget cuts, yanno - which was WELL done and a lot of fun.
And Jim got to encounter his first chicken. Live, clucking, chickens. One of our recent confirmands lives on a ranch (RPV, if I don't miss my guess) and these were two of her youngest ones...one nearly egg-laying age, and the one still young enough to have some downy feathers and her baby voice left. But clearly a tweener getting ready to fledge up. VERY unhappy about being away from her age group, naturally - so we all got the cheep cheep serenade every time we went past the carrier.
I pick her up first, and then hand her off to Jim. There's a moment or two of CHEEP CHEEP YOU JERK UNHAND ME then...she starts making the happy chick trill. Yup, that's my boy. Babies love him. And he is far more amenable to the idea of keeping some egg-laying chickens at the house than before. (I've toyed with this idea more than once, but if you haven't been playing along at home...my schedule is kind of topped out right now. Add one more thing to the list of Stuff I Gotta Do on a daily basis? Someone's going to go out of the house naked and screaming one morning as a result. Promise.)
Huge bouncer at church as well, plus a ton of Easter goodies and everyone got to meet Xander's Daddy. All win.
But now I have a storage space to get filled - and locked. Your Monday, now in progress.
Kid is doing his job - which is pressing both of us as hard as possible to be really Mean Parents as often as he can. I've started explaining that making noise just to make noise? Is not nice and will now get you into trouble. You have something to say, that's fine - but nattering on and on and on just to interrupt a conversation is no longer okay.
It's a work in progress. You knew that, right?
Saturday, I actually got to spend some time with
catsonmars, rent our storage space and send many Sims to the happy hunting grounds via cowplant - just for Tommy and Jim's benefit. McDonald's has HTTYD toys for Happy Meal time this month, so guess where lunch has been this weekend?Sunday, we woke up to completely still air - so no early morning kite work. We dug into the easter baskets the bunny brought (*winks*) and ate breakfast made out of some of the hardboiled eggs. (Yum.) For the first time ever, all three of us made it to church - this is the ONE Sunday Jim is not on, due to the holiday (in his world, holidays are prized moneymakers you bid to WORK ON, not avoid) and while it was unfortunate that it was an Easter Sunday (and you do have to cover the material), it did give him a glimpse of what church is actually like on the days he's not around. There was also an Easter Egg Hunt - most of the cities had to cancel theirs due to budget cuts, yanno - which was WELL done and a lot of fun.
And Jim got to encounter his first chicken. Live, clucking, chickens. One of our recent confirmands lives on a ranch (RPV, if I don't miss my guess) and these were two of her youngest ones...one nearly egg-laying age, and the one still young enough to have some downy feathers and her baby voice left. But clearly a tweener getting ready to fledge up. VERY unhappy about being away from her age group, naturally - so we all got the cheep cheep serenade every time we went past the carrier.
I pick her up first, and then hand her off to Jim. There's a moment or two of CHEEP CHEEP YOU JERK UNHAND ME then...she starts making the happy chick trill. Yup, that's my boy. Babies love him. And he is far more amenable to the idea of keeping some egg-laying chickens at the house than before. (I've toyed with this idea more than once, but if you haven't been playing along at home...my schedule is kind of topped out right now. Add one more thing to the list of Stuff I Gotta Do on a daily basis? Someone's going to go out of the house naked and screaming one morning as a result. Promise.)
Huge bouncer at church as well, plus a ton of Easter goodies and everyone got to meet Xander's Daddy. All win.
But now I have a storage space to get filled - and locked. Your Monday, now in progress.
