I had one small rule for my weekend. I wanted to leave my laptop closed and have some fun. Oh, and clean out Lacey’s bedroom. I promised Lacey it would be fun, and tried to convince myself of the same.
So off we set. We went through her toys and I started tossing those in the bag that were broken or no longer of use to her. And she promptly pulled them back out. Hubby helpfully lay on her bed as we cleaned around him. I took one step forward with my cleaning and then two back as Lacey emptied out baskets, as well as my garbage bag.
Somewhere between Barbies and puzzle pieces, Lacey had a tantrum. The floor was covered in toys strewn from on end to the other and my patience was almost used up, so I took her into our bedroom for some time out. In a huff I return to her room only to slip on a doll/car/toy of some sort and it felt like slow motion, but I tumbled, slipped on a toy pram {breaking it in the process} and landed with a thud on the floor in front of the bookcase.
I could hear Hubby snickering from under the covered of Lacey’s bed.
“Don’t. I’m really hurt,” I fibbed, as my ego was mostly bruised.
I lay on the ground for moments more than required for dramatic effect. “You OK?” Hubby finally asked concerned.
“I’m sore. Really sore.”
The room was eventually cleaned, rearranged and some how {via mama magic} I managed to clear out the old/broken toys without a final whimper from Lacey.
By late afternoon Lacey finally succumbed to a nap, so I hopped online to check my emails and social media addictions. In one swift jerk, somehow {not mama magic} I knocked my laptop to the ground, punishment I presume for using it when I said I wouldn’t. I gasped, picked it up, gave it the once over and proudly decided that my laptop was invincible. Until I opened it up later than night and noticed the screen was completely cracked.
I went to sleep and woke up to see my face swollen and red {an allergic reaction that’s slowly been happening for the past week} and a very bruised side.
I’d promised Lacey a trip to the local fair held at a nearby school, so off we went. There were animals, games, sausage sizzles, beautiful parents {woah, I have some work to do before Lacey hits primary school because the parents are OMG-orgeous} and a jumping castle for the under 5’s. Is it just me, or is there always a rogue kid on every jumping castle? There always seems to be one kid who jumps about head-butting other kids, while the parent has his back turned flirting with the other mums. Perhaps it’s just me {and my bad mood}.
We finished the day with a pony ride, a disgruntled new laptop purchase and a visit to the health food shop – where my puffy face was diagnosed as a food thing. The woman rattled off a long list of foods that I should stop eating immediately to which my mum piped up, “So water is pretty much all she can have then?” Sweet!
How was your weekend?
You poor thing! Food allergies are the pits. My weekend was spent putting the cot together (*sob*) and having the girls photos taken by Tiff (awesome!)
Allergies are the worst! Eeeek about your laptop, I'd be more the disgruntled!
What a string of bad luck! That can only mean that things will get better? …here's hoping. It rained all day here today and I caught up on lost sleep.
oh. my. goodness. what a weekend.
I'm hoping you get a rest and that your people are good to you (i'll have the same, thanks).
xo em
Oh cleaning a child's room, I have been “sorting out” Sadie's room for weeks and it seems as soon as I toss a toy I'm convinced she has never touched, I can guarantee that is the toy she will ask for for the following week.
And I can also guarantee you don't need to do any work to compete with the other parents, you are a gorgeous mother.xx
yes, there is always a rogue child in every play crowd – it's not you. i spot them all the time and being the helicopter parent that i am, i find it hard to tolerate, even more so when the parents seem to think it is acceptable. hope today is a better one for you.
Oh MATE!
Rocco is that rogue kid on the jumping castle. Every time. So I never relax, always stand there with my threats if he pushes ONE more kid. When he was a baby, I used to have to go IN to the baby section part of the lovely Lollipops Playland Penrith – not to protect him, but to protect the other babies from him.
Hope your beautiful face is better xo
LOL about the water! Surely if it's not happened before it would be something new you've eaten?
I admire your bravery for tackling Lacey's room and actually throwing things out. The best I can do is tidy and put away the toys. I am terrified of the hurricane, should a toy be discovered to be missing….
Hope you recover soon!
ooh, hope your food allergy gets sorted soon, a water diet doesn't sound very appealing 😉 I really do not enjoy doing the childrens room clean outs, I have no patience nor stamina for it! Hope you have a much less grumpy feeling week…although we all need a few grumpy days now and again 🙂 Tatum xx
Wow! Just Wow! What a weekend you've had – both the highs and the lows!
We had a busy weekend demolishing our backyard ready for new underground power to be run so we can then demolish our existing garage and build a new one. All I can say is I'm glad I've been going to the gym for the past 4 weeks or I'd be a heck of a lot sorer than I am right now! Details over at http://4fullerfun.blogspot.com/.
You're so right, there is ALWAYS that rogue child on the jumping castle. Or the one kid in the playground with a stick. I hope you get to the bottom of the food allergies asap.
there's definitely always one kid in the bounce house that must make everyone else run out crying. so sorry about your allergies, hope you get that all sorted!
Oh I need to do the toy cull thing but you've totally given me further reason to procrastinate. Hope the allergy gets sorted quick smart x
It is one brave mumma who attempts to shde clutter the room of a 3 year old. I feel your pain lol I told Raya the toys were going back to Santa so he can give them to babies and he can bring her more big girl toys – works for her! The amount of small plastic cluttering toys they amass is incredible. Love the shot of the pony ride.
Oh poor Chantelle, what a pack of poo tickets your weekend sounded like. I woke with a puffy, red, disgusting looking eye this morning, so I kind of feel your pain. I also sat on my sunglasses over the weekend, snapped them to oblivion, so I can relate to breakages also. You're one of the gorgeous Mama's too you know, you'll do great at the school gate :o) xo
I know the torture of a room cleanout all too well. I did it recently in Amelie's room and didn't hide the bag very well. The next day I got home to find she and her Granny had found it and emptied it back into her toybox. Sigh!
I hope the puff and bruised side heal soon.
xx
I can so relate to the cracked screen. Felix knocked mine over twice and cracked it twice. I now don't get the computer out when he is around.
You pretty much said what i could not effectively communicate. +1
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There are some days when you really shouldn't get out of bed! You sound like you had TWO days like that.