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P365 – Day 277 – playing cricket

Juniordwarf got a plastic cricket set for his third birthday. The first time we used it was a couple of months later when we went away to the beach for a weekend with Aunty Purple Bee. But he really hasn’t been interested in playing cricket up until now. I...

P365 – Day 275 – MORE housework!

Today I decided I really needed to follow on from last weekend’s cleaning frenzy  On today’s list were Juniordwarf’s bedroom and the laundry.  Both of these are rooms that kind of terrify me. With Juniordwarf’s room, I think it’s going to be a matter of working with him to...

P365 – Day 268 – let’s talk about housework

I loathe and detest housework with every bone in my body really don’t much like housework. I’m not very good at keeping things tidy. The concept of ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’, while being the cornerstone of every decluttering/home organisation book I’ve never read, is...

P365 – Day 263 – gardening

Juniordwarf said he wanted to go outside this morning, so I told him to go while I finished what I was doing. A while later I went out to see what he was doing. He’d put on his little gardening gloves, got his little digger and was in the...

P365 – Day 252 – car wash

Juniordwarf and Slabs spent the day together today. By all accounts it was a good day. They did a whole range of ‘special activities’, did a tip run, took my car to the car wash, went up the street and went out for lunch together. When I got home...

P365 – Day 242 – lava lamp

Juniordwarf is the official turner on and off of the lights in the house, as well as the official raiser and lowerer of the blinds. Tonight he decided, in this capacity, that we were going to turn on the old lava lamp in the lounge room and, because that...

P365 – Day 240 – some of what we did today

This morning I looked into Juniordwarf’s room and this is what I saw: He said he was lining up all the numbers. He’d obviously run out of room at the bed and had to continue the sequence under his bed. He was taking one number or one picture under...