Thursday was a bit of a waste of a day. H woke me up in exactly the wrong point in my sleep cycle and then refused to go to sleep for over an hour, aargh. Plus my bleed was due, so it was pretty clear that there was going to be a higher than usual level of Grumpy Mummy for the rest of the day. The kids played together beautifully for at least four hours, but when they got bored playing by themselves I was a bit of a failure at interacting with them. I wish we had gotten out of the house to the usual library and post office day, but despite actually getting everybody ready to go out, we never made it out the door for one reason or another. Playschool went on after 4 or so in Mr Bat’s study, and shortly afterwards they broke the B&W printer while arsing around. So that was not a huge success. We had a massive clean-up in the evening and having a clean house is a great mood improver around here.

Friday we all slept in late, thanks to late bedtimes and more nocturnal partying from both smalls this time, so Mr Bat ended up working from home, since he’s sick anyway. I didn’t try to make it to Katy’s for craft in the morning, given that neither kid woke up until after 10am. Instead, our landlord dropped in for a cuppa and to check on various things which needed fixing, then I shovelled porridge into the kids and got them ready to go out. I suggested to Katy that we met up at the park in Huonville, instead of coming over late and potentially overwhelming already wired-up kids, as happened the last time we were running this late on a Friday. So we went to the post office and library then headed off to the park. We met up with three families there and it all went absolutely smashingly. The kids played with virtually no altercations for three hours straight and had to be dragged off protestingly when it got too cold and close to sundown for us mums. Back home to read the new library books, and a trip to the hardware store with Mr Bat to buy a locking doorknob to keep them out of his study after the printer debacle, then watching two newly-downloaded Playschool episodes which Mr Bat had put on K’s computer. After dinner the kids pootled til Mr Bat put H to bed and I read to K (we’re almost finished The Long Winter). They were late to bed again tonight, so hopefully won’t be sleeping in til lunchtime tomorrow…