Okay so on Thursday we (Himself & I) left the
house just after 7:30 … the kids were still asleep.
We had no choice. I had to be at work and he had clients
to pick up from the airport…
I finally got home at 6:15, which means that our kids
had been home alone for hours on end. I
don’t think I can quite tell you how guilty I felt. Himself had planned on
going home to check up on the kids for an hour or two but his day ran away from
him. Then, to top it all, Cat starts crying and telling me that they were so
bored and hungry.
Talk about feeling guilty!
Okay, I totally get that she was doing this just to
make me feel bad, and it worked. But for the record there was plenty to eat in
the house, so her complaint at not having anything to eat was unfounded.
So I forced them to go walking with me, cause after
spending the entire day doing nothing but watching movies I decided that they
needed to spend time with me and get some fresh air. You will not believe how
they complained about that! But as it so often goes once we were off they were
having a great time.
I was feeling so guilty about being such a bad mom
that I actually pulled a ‘sicky’ on Friday. Ssssh don’t tell anyone! I was
convinced that the kids were going to be thrilled …
Queue disappointment … when I went and woke them up on
Friday morning they both wanted to know what I was doing at home. Clearly the day before had scarred them for
life. (sometimes I wish we had a font for sarcasm)
Anyway, we spent Friday doing pretty much next to
nothing since it was cold and windy and miserable out. Saturday Tiger had a
football game … 2 of the kids didn’t turn up so he was the goalie and did
rather well. Their team won 10/2.
Himself did a shift at his friends pub on Saturday
night so it was just the kids & I at home. Cat and I watched
Monster-in-law. She loved it. She is totally into romantic comedies. Tiger was happy to watch WWF.
Sunday was a beautiful day. It was sunny and bright
and balmy. After doing some ironing I joined the kids outside. Cat abandoned
her dolls and the three of us played with Tigers hot wheels and built compounds
with sticks and pieces of bark and whatever else we could find.
Later in the afternoon we took a drive up to Duffel to
drop Cat off at Noreen’s for a sleep-over.
So at least I don’t have to feel guilty about leaving
my kids home alone again this week. Cat will be back from visiting Alannah on
Tuesday and then on Wednesday she is going on scout’s camp till Sunday. And Tiger
has football camp this week. And before we know this week will be over and it
will be back to school till the end of the school year (28 June).
