Just Jo!

We woke at a reasonable hour today…. well, only reasonable when compared to yesterday. These late nights are getting us prepared for New Year’s Eve, still no idea what we’re doing though. Adam’s due back on Saturday, but no doubt he’ll be straight out with all his friends and we won’t actually *see* him ’til well into the new year!
We had sausage, mash and baked beans last night for tea…..bear with me! There’s always a few beans left over. I like them on toast for breakfast the next day. It’s my ‘thing’. Still here? Today, Olivia had the utter gall to ask if she could have them!!!!
“No, they’re mine.”
“But you always have them!”
“Yes. And your point is?”
“It’s not fair! Can’t I have them for a change?”
“No. I repeat, they are mine.”
“Why do you always have them?”
“Because I do. It’s my little treat.”
“Please mummy! I love you!”
“Nope, they’re mine! Go away!!”
“Please!!”
“NO!!”
“Why does it have to be your treat anyway?”
For the love of…..I get little enough in life as it is…..leave me the b****y left over beans!
And the second pathetic argument in 5 minutes?
Maisy had finished her delicious breakfast of biscuits and was waiting patiently by the front door for her morning excursion. Olivia was in the kitchen marmalading her toast (ha!). I said to Maisy, “D’you want to go out Mais?”
Olivia comes screeching through the sitting room, “I’ll do it! I’ll let her out! Let me do it!”
“You’re doing your toast. Go away and finish it.”
“But I want to let Maisy out!”
“You’re in the middle of getting your breakfast. Go away!”
(Maisy’s crossing her legs, “Please, I just wanna go out!”)
Olivia picks up Maisy to give her a big cuddle, “Are you alright Maisy? Do you want to go out?”
“Go and finish your breakfast!!”
I’m staying in bed ’til the afternoon (again) tomorrow! Purely to preserve my sanity you understand!
The hot water was off this morning, and much to the hilarity of a certain child, I had to wash my hair in cold, no, make that freezing water. I’m beginning to think that my teeny tiny little streak of sadism is starting to rub off on her!
We found some more images of Kwanzaa for Olivia’s scrapbook, and I started a stew for dinner. I used up Nan’s veggies…. the turnip was OK, although there was a big hole in the middle. I very gingerly inspected it but luckily there were no ‘remains’! Olivia was quite disgusted that we had no tinned chestnuts to put in. “Get over it! We could have had slugs!”
The second instalment of Jurassic Park lured us upstairs again. Contrary to popular belief, there is a lot of educational value in these films…. Olivia now knows to leave baby Tyrannosaurus’ alone (their mummy’s and daddy’s come looking for them), T-Rex is so much easier to say than ‘trannysoreass’ (yes, I did splutter my tea over my duvet!), some dinosaurs are really mean (”Why are they so mean?”, “It’s in their job description”), everyone cheers when the baddies get eaten…. all of a high educational quality I think you’ll agree!
Third ridiculous argument of the day?
“How many dumplings have you got?”
“Why?”
“I’ve only got 4″
“Ummm…..I might have about….ummm….6…..not sure…..”
“Muuummm! Why do you always get more?”
“It’s in *my* job description!”
The argumentconversation then degenerated into smutty (and childish!) innuendo about ‘dumplings’ with Olivia the one who couldn’t stop giggling and me the one who dropped half her stew down her ‘dumplings’!
We also had a fantastic burping competition, which I won hands down! Oh Yeah!
Olivia had been playing with some of her fake snow again, burying Polly Pocket in it (she is in serious danger of hyperthermia as it is without inflicting that on her!). The point of this diversion is that when we were doing the washing-up, I honestly thought Olivia would like to be covered in bubbles. “Look! It’s snowing!” Honest! Apparently, soap suds are not the same as fake snow!
Grown-up, home-ed alert again…..
Late last night, I was looking for some sites on Eid ul-Adha for kids so Olivia can ‘do something’ on it at the weekend. I only found stuff for Muslim children, who obviously have all the background knowledge and understanding, nothing for an ignoramus a non- Muslim child like what my one is…. So if anyone knows of anything, worksheets, puzzles, stories, that kind of thing, I’d be very grateful.
I now have about half an hour to decide what I’m going to watch this evening…..Perfect Parents or Dracula? I could tape one or t’other, but then I’d forget to watch it, so why bother in the first place? Dracula finishes earlier, so I could still get in an extravagant amount of time in the bath after. Hmmm, if only all life’s decisions could be sorted on how long I get to spend in the bath…..