The Things We Do!
After a long day
Tuesday, spent mostly at the hospital having some scans done, (nothing serious,
they just are not sure what), I decided to spend the remaining day of my
weekend, (which falls mid week once a fortnight) resting and chilling out.
Today was a rare
occasion when hubby also had the night off, as he is working all day Sunday.
(So the kids will have to wait till dad comes home to bestow upon him his
Father’s Day stall and home made gifts.) We planned to get the boys to bed by 8pm
and sit back and watch “A FARMER WANTS A WIFE” together, instead of taping it
and watching it on our own. Fantastic, excited, and chocolate ready to go, a
date night!
Boys get home from
school, and I have them in the shower and all cleaned up, washed hair too; throw
in some groans and moans. Why do boys hate being clean? Dinner in oven, I am
feeling so on top of everything, hubby chilling and doing some modelling at the
kitchen table, (Not fashion modelling, but model planes and spaceships, tanks
and things) that is a rare event in itself these days. Dinner served, and all
before child number 2 has to go off to his drama class; everyone happy, even
child number 3 is amusing himself with a new app (MY PANIO). Nothing can go
wrong…………….right??
Half an hour
before said Drama class, Child number 2 announces that he has some homework due
tomorrow.
“What kind of
homework?” I ask.
“A project” he
states.
“A project on
what?” I ask again.
“I chose Japan
He starts telling
me that the class started said project a few weeks ago, when we all had that
horrible flu and spent 2 weeks sick and at home, (just so I now feel guilty)
and he throws in, for good measure, that he is behind and doesn’t understand
what the teacher wants him to do, but it must be done by morning or he will be
in trouble.
Right, my inner
self is screaming “YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME RIGHT!” But the mummy in me
says, “OK show me what you have done so far.”
He heads to his
school bag while I am still prattling on about why he didn’t start this over
the weekend, or tell me sooner that he needed help, and why he had played games
all afternoon yesterday, and said, swore even, that he had NO HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!
He returns, not
having answered any of my very important questions, a skill which he seems well
mastered in, and shows me his assignment. I kid you not, I looked down and I
saw a title page. “JAPAN
next
page……………..NOTHING…………………….next page………………NOTHING…………well you get the idea!
So I question
again.
“What do you have
to write about?”
“Where is the
homework assignment sheet?”
“What questions
does your teacher want answered?”
“What do you have
to do?”
To all of the
above I just got a flat… “I DON’T KNOW”
I did consider
walking away, just saying well too bad buddy, you should have thought about it
sooner, but I just couldn’t do it. So instead I turned on the computer, and
began shouting………………”What things do you want to put in it? How about Bullet
Trains, Japanese Food, Art, Dress, Gardens, Temples
“Yes” he smiles
and adds, money. I have to add, what kind of money do they use?
“OK, I can work
with this!”
Hubby takes him to
Drama, while I go hunting on-line for above mentioned facts and start printing
out pictures, while issuing threats to Child number 3 to remove himself with MY
PANIO app, before I insert it where the sun don’t shine! Mummy can only listen
to such noise for a short while and it’s now been an hour!!!!
After an hour, (due to being on dial up, man I miss broadband), I
feel I have enough stuff to fill his assignment book. Child 2 returns from
Drama class, and we get gluing, and colouring and cutting. During which time
Child 1 gets home from Uni, and is all worked up over the book she is reading,
and I have to tell her “NOT NOW”! But she comes in handy with her knowledge of
Japanese, (I guess she did learn something in Jap Class!) and is able to write
some words out for us in lovely swirly lines. The assignment is starting to
look very nice, but I still have no idea if we are following the brief??
The clock is
ticking, and Child 1 is spontaneously bursting out into tears, (Still reading
last instalment of the HUNGER GAMES trilogy), and it is getting closer and
closer to our 8 pm dead line. Hubby takes Child 3 to bed for some one on one, (playing Angry Birds on the Android Tablet) and to save mummy’s sanity, while I start rushing Child 2 on his finishing
touches.
With one minute to
go, and after 3 solid hours, our assignment on Japan
I tell you, if I
don’t get an A for that I will be annoyed!
So much for my
relaxing, chill-out day!
Oh the things we
do for our kids. ^_^
Oh and Hubby and I did get to sit back and watch our TV show and share some chocolate. We only missed a bit of the start, and I only had to share him with our Kitten. Not a bad way to end the day. ^_^
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