Thursday 7 November 2013

Wednesday-ish

Hi, how are things? I'm feeling a bit Wednesday-ish. You know how people have 'that Monday morning feeling'? I have a Wednesday evening feeling. Wednesdays are generally a bit manic. This was today: It started with the usual morning stuff (Twin 2 having histrionics because she thought we were late - wish she'd never learnt to tell the time), took Twins to school, cycled in to work, taught until 12pm, then cycled to another centre and taught again from 12.30 until 2.30pm (all good really - thankfully I remembered my lesson plan today), then cycled back to pick Twins up (by this time it had started to rain, and my stomach was rumbling from existing on nothing but three cups of coffee and a breakfast biscuit), picked them up, walked home in the rain, made kids' tea (whilst lesson planning and doing class admin), at 5pm did Twin 2's physiotherapy, listened to Twin 1's guitar practice, reminded Son to get changed for Karate, and at quarter to six bundled everyone in the car to drop Son off at karate. Between six fifteen and six forty five I finished my lesson planning, listened to some more of Twin 2's guitar practice and checked Twin 1's spelling practice, then we went to pick up Son. In the five minutes whilst we waited for Son at the sports centre I finished off the online grocery shop...
So, we get back home.
Now, I aim to spend around half an hour with each of them on a one-to-one basis each school night, but tonight it was late, and I had some admin to do (letters for school, karate, etc.) so I asked them to get ready for bed. Of course it all ended up with Twin 2 in tears and toothpaste everywhere - I won't bore you with the details.
At bedtime I said that Wednesdays were getting a bit manic, so I would no longer be doing the special one-to-one time for all of them. However, I said, I would still spend time with Twin 2 because she always spends her half hour with me doing speech therapy and reading comprehension to help her at school (the other two just get to read/draw/chat with me).
Twin 1 then said in an extremely huffy voice. "Well that's not fair. Just because she's disabled. It's not fair that she has a disability and we don't."
I suppose she has a point...

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