Routine

After getting back from my afternoon shift as a crossing guard, I started working on dinner. Laura went upstairs to get some of her studying done. She has a couple of major projects due bor class on top of her work for her student teaching. This left me with preparing dinner while the four younger children were running amok.

Thing is, they couldn’t simply be left alone. They never can, nor should. I had planned to neglect them to the point that all parent don’t want to admit but secretly do while attempting to accomplish something. Mildly aware they are doing “something” not sure what but nobody’s screaming so it should be alright for the next 10 minutes.

So I’m trying to get dinner assembled. August needs help with his homework. I have to say he spelling words for him to do a practice test. Since Friday is Veterans Day, and no school, tomorrow is the end of the week. This means everything needs to be turned in. This includes is fossil project.

What? Oh, alright, we have a leaf and some clay, it’s ready to bake to harden up. Only it the leaf is now stuck in the clay and won’t come out. We need to make more clay. We’re using this sculpt multicolored modeling clay, and one piece isn’t big enough so we have to take a few pieces, of hopefully complimentary colors and mash them together, lay it all flat, hope it is big enough for the leaf, and no it isn’t, so we have to add more, mash that together, put the leaf in to make the impression, only it doesn’t look good because the clay used was dark so we need to add white, and that takes an even longer time to mash together, and we have to spread it out and get it flat and roundish enough for the whole leaf to fit and get an impression then put it in the oven to bake and harden.

All this time, Xavier just wants to be held. I have a crying 18 month old at my feet, a counter of dinner not getting made, my daughter not getting her homework done because I am unable to monitor her, and Ciárán is being very loud in the front room but I just don’t have the attention to spend to find out what he is up to.

So how was your evening?