This week has had a few highs and a couple of lows.
Highs:
We got a dishwasher installed! When we bought the house 18 months ago, we intended to install a dishwasher straight away, but with interest rates and cost of living high, there was always something else to spend our money on. So we washed all the dishes by hand, month… after month… after month. We finally got a dishwasher installed this week and it’s amazing! Being able to turn it on at night and have sparkling clean dishes in the morning is magic. I’ll never take it for granted again.
Ta-da! 🤗
My big brother is visiting! He’s staying with my parents for a long weekend, and we all hung out last night and it was so lovely. Looking forward to more fun with him today.
Uncle C and E looking at photos together 🥰
E had her school colour fun run yesterday - it’s an obstacle course where they get sprayed with colour, bubbles and water, it’s totally chaos and the kids love it. I volunteered to spray water on a slip and slide (and also become the wash station for kids to wash bubbles and colour off their faces, hands, glasses etc! It was fun but surprisingly exhausting for 60 minutes of action! Haha! E was excited to see me though and she did great, and raised some money for her school and prizes for herself (you can guess which of those she was most excited about!). Ha!
There she comes!
I won an award at work a few weeks ago and this week my boss gave me a bottle of French champagne to congratulate me. It was a lovely thought and brightened up my day.
O is now speaking in full, comprehendible sentences! He’s been saying sentences for a while, but often I’d only catch one or two words clearly. But now, seemingly overnight, that has shifted, and I now understand most of what he’s saying. He’s clearly proud of it too- so cute! I think E made this progress at around the same time (around 3.5 years).
He’s loving felt art at the moment!
Lowlights
I’ve been a bit sick - just a cough/cold type virus, which has been a bit of a drag. Luckily Thursday and Friday were lighter days work wise, so I was able to lay low at home mostly.
I am feeling very touched out by the kids. They just want me ALL. THE. TIME. It is adorable but also exhausting. Either wanting me to do things for them, or sitting ON me at every opportunity. I need to make sure I do a solo walk and/or coffee this weekend, just to feel like a human!
This weekend we have a fun outing and lunch planned with my brother and parents, tidying the house this afternoon, maybe some late arvo drinks at our house. Then a kids birthday party tomorrow and hang out with my bro again in the afternoon.
Anyone have any highlights or lowlights from the week? Any fun weekend plans?
Yay for the dishwasher!!! That’s great news!! Enjoy!
Our weekend plans… Yesterday was Saturday, gymnastics and piano, and some needed cleaning of the house. Today, Sunday, I am typing this alone in the house!! What a treat. Tony took the kids to meet their friends for breakfast and I stayed back.
I can very much relate to being touched out. As women our bodies and minds take a beating after having kids. It will continue until the kids are teens and moderately hate our guts lol
Hooray for a dishwasher! That makes such a huge difference! Washing dishes by hand gets old fast! That was nice to get a bottle of champagne for your award!
My highlight was the boys sleeping until around 7 this morning! They are so tired on the weekends from all the activity at school and such. The lowlight was being tired from work travel - which made me extra grateful that they slept well.
Once you get a dishwasher there is no going back! I'm so happy for you - it is truly life-changing.
I had a year without a dishwasher ,too! I thought I’d never take it for granted, but I’ve found that, a bit like childbirth, my brain has deleted the pain of all that washing up, and now I can’t even remember how it felt to not be able to load it up and push the button!! PennyL in the U.K