Daily Musings

January has flown by. A few weeks ago I made the comment to a friend that 1/24th of 2023 was over. And then a few days later, or so it felt, 1/12th of 2023 is now over.

I knew this was going to be an interesting week by Sunday. The forecast was iffy, and that meant potential school closures and my classes would be affected. It also meant I was stuck at home with my children for the entire week without being able to go anywhere.

Now I realize, I "stay home" with my children every single day. However, when the roads outside aren't covered in sleet and ice, we can go to the grocery store, we can go to the library, we can go visit friends. It makes a big difference to the mental state of "staying home" with my children. On weeks like this, I am literally at home with them from the time I wake up until the time I sleep. As much as I love my children, that is not my idea of being a stay-at-home mom. 😅

We started the week yesterday with a moment. My son had used the potty and earned the privilege to flush the toilet himself. We had washed our hands and he was all set to come back down. Except he wouldn't. He wanted to cling to the side of the sink and stay like this. I asked him if he wanted to come down. No. I asked him if he wanted to stay. No. I asked him if he wanted help to come down. No. 

He stayed like that for a while until I decided it was a safety hazard and made him unhappily come down. Somehow, somehow, we made it through the rest of the day without nap time. 

Today's adventure was a little more exciting because of outside precipitation. My children asked to go outside and after an outerwear disagreement, they finally conceded to put on the necessary layers I was requesting and went outside. 

I set out the patio umbrella because then the kids could play in peace underneath it without having to hold up their individual umbrellas. My daughter made a small snow/ice mound and my son wandered around next to her. This was great fun for them until he stepped in her snow mound which upset her and then both kids ended up inside again with me.

They lasted about an hour outside playing. I'd say that's pretty good considering the temperature is quite cold. I'm not entirely sure what we are doing the rest of the day. I might do some story time. I might do some age-appropriate "homework", and I may let them have a lot of tv and screen time later. Who knows. 

They're already asking me for lunch and it's 10:00am. Oh boy....