Good morning everyone :) I sadly missed blogging on Friday but I am pleased to report that I am back in action today :) We ran errands on Friday (I had to go out four times with the kids in tow...geesh!) and in the afternoon, once the kids were finally asleep and I made it out to Mat's shed to use the computer, the flipping Internet was down! No amount of turning things off and on worked so I had to admit defeat and have a blog free day. Then to top it off, both kids have been sick with croup and Elliott also has a throat infection. Poor little things! So needless to say, Mummy duty has been taking top priority the past few days to nurse the kids back to health...there was no way I was going to miss out on sending Sophie to Kindy today so she had to get well fast!
As you can imagine, sleep has been a little elusive for me with both kids sick at the same time but on Saturday night they didn't make a peep. Mat on the other hand, he peeped. At 3:30am I felt tap tap tap on my hip. I ignored it but Mat persisted tap tap tapping away. I rolled over and asked in my grumpy middle of the night voice "What!?" to which Mat sleepily mumbled "Toby found us the welding sticks". I chuckled a little, "What did you say?" and Mat repeated again "Toby found us the welding sticks". I laughed some more and when I asked Mat if he was still asleep, he mumbled yes and drifted back off to the land of nod. So my one night of the kids sleeping through was interrupted with that very insightful dialogue from Mat. Got to love it :)
Anyway, update is out of the way so lets get on with Motivational Monday...Um, excuse me brain, I said let's get on with Motivational Monday...knock knock, brain, wake up in there, when I type "Motivational Monday" the ideas are supposed to start flowing. Still nothing. Nothing motivational seems to be coming to mind at all. It could be the fact I am distracted by Elliott being alone inside in his cot playing while I am in Mat's shed typing away. You see, he was out here with me to start with and after I typed the first three words of today's blog, he tripped over some big greasy metal thing in a really stupid spot and hurt himself. The best part is of course the way he is now totally covered in grease! I have given him a bath and tried using soap, sugar and actual industrial strength grease hand cleaning stuff but to no avail...he is still tinged gray right across his arms. chest, stomach and knees. Oh what a sight! I guess that is my lesson for today...be present and focused on Elliott and purchase a great big roll of bubble tape and wrap the poor injury prone child up in it!
I will have to leave it there today sorry guys, nothing motivational is flowing at all and I can hear Elliott screaming the house down. Duty calls :) Tomorrow I am going to a Children's Mind, Body and Spirit festival so I will likely be blogging later in the day, unless there is a miracle and I can get it up before 7am. Here's hoping!!
Happy Monday and I hope you can all look for the small pleasures in today. Find beauty in the simple things and appreciate what you have right in front of you xox
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