It is important to be prepared for such events.
How can we entertain ourselves today?1. Have a big fabulous belated birthday cake dropped off by the best little Mother-in-law in the Western suburbs.
2. Allow Fishy to finely whittle a small pile of potatoes into chips and oven fry them. Kills a good hour. Cupcakes were also made but were eaten before the camera could focus.
3. Allow the same child to make a giant catapult across the kitchen to distract him from further cooking adventures.
4. Discover an eccentric girl child dressing for school when it's not on.
5. Extricate them from this ...
6. by encouraging this.
7. Make long overdue signage for the Coop de Chickens. Thank you Sonia for the paint again.
8. Pursue further town planning activities with another 'people' receptacle.
9. Find old rubber letters in the bath and make a name T-shirt. I did this for all the others when they were little. This was overdue.
10. Get paint all over myself as mess-therapy for the neat two year old.
11. Work that thing! She loves it!
12. In the name of mother love, face eating the zen rice cracker, peanut paste, maple syrup and sunflower seed special presented by the 8 year old. Yes I did nibble and express ecstasy at its divine flavours. Academy award please!
13. Cleanse the palate with Nanna Freddo's banana cake with lashings of cream cheese icing.
There was minor art produced, no major barneys between siblings and no visits to the Children's Hospital. All in all a successful rainy day!
2. Allow Fishy to finely whittle a small pile of potatoes into chips and oven fry them. Kills a good hour. Cupcakes were also made but were eaten before the camera could focus.
3. Allow the same child to make a giant catapult across the kitchen to distract him from further cooking adventures.
4. Discover an eccentric girl child dressing for school when it's not on.
5. Extricate them from this ...
6. by encouraging this.
7. Make long overdue signage for the Coop de Chickens. Thank you Sonia for the paint again.
8. Pursue further town planning activities with another 'people' receptacle.
9. Find old rubber letters in the bath and make a name T-shirt. I did this for all the others when they were little. This was overdue.
10. Get paint all over myself as mess-therapy for the neat two year old.
11. Work that thing! She loves it!
12. In the name of mother love, face eating the zen rice cracker, peanut paste, maple syrup and sunflower seed special presented by the 8 year old. Yes I did nibble and express ecstasy at its divine flavours. Academy award please!
13. Cleanse the palate with Nanna Freddo's banana cake with lashings of cream cheese icing.
There was minor art produced, no major barneys between siblings and no visits to the Children's Hospital. All in all a successful rainy day!
