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Date: 12 July 2005 21:11:13
You may have noticed a certain reduction in blogging over the last couple of weeks. There again, you may not... or you may even have breathed a sigh of relief, I suppose. But here life has been somewhat hectic.. and that's without even counting the weekend we just enjoyed.
First of all, of course, we have the delight of Tiddles STILL suffering the after effects of his Peak District visit. Tiredness, I mean. Now, here's a little contest for you. Which of the following have been triggers for tantrums in the last week I wonder?
a) a button falling off a pyjama jacket in the middle of the night
b) being asked to find where a belt was put at the end of a game of pirates
c) not being allowed to watch a video that he'd agreed not to watch
d) being asked to find his own school trousers from the (small) pile of ironing so I could iron them
e) being asked to do maths homework
f) losing a £5 note on the way back from the shop
g) being told that it was too hot to wear a winter coat
All this convinces me that the decision to separate their bedroom into two was a good idea. I'm extremely pleased with the results... I just have a few finishing touches to complete the effect. Tiddles has a more "teenager" little cabin with a work station and a secret tantrumming corner (which we're not going to market as such, of course, but that's the reasoning behind it as it will save him sitting in my coat cupboard), while I just know that Smudgelet is going to be delighted with the little den I've built for him to hide away in in a corner of his new room. And I think there may even, even be room to put the Scalextric up on occasions, too.
Now all I need to do is overcome the lethargy this heat is inducing because the house is in total chaos. The contents of their room are strewn around the house. The contents of the kitchen are strewn around the house (Dad's tilers came and tiled my kitchen for me last week, bless their hearts, so all I have to do now is clean up the grout, paint the rest of the walls, and put everything back where it belongs on the shelves and worktops... if I can find where I've put it all!). And to top it all, I have used the wardrobes from my bedroom to form the partition for the Smudgelets' rooms, so all the contents of those are now mountained-up on my bed. Yes, I'm back on the sofa again! What on earth possessed me to do all this at the end of a long and tiring term, in the hottest part of the year, during the Tiddles-tantrum season, and just three weeks before friends come to house sit while we're on holiday?????