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That was pleasant
Feb. 18th, 2010 09:49 pmI got home early from work today. Early enough to have a nap and I'm thinking it might be worth getting to work early so I can do it more often.
After my nap we had dinner and then I had enough energy to go and address my garden. Rose and I headed out and watered, weeded and pruned my veg garden. OMG, maybe 4 squash plants was a mistake. Although they're looking interesting growing over the old ladder I set up for them. Sometime soon I'm \going to have to nag mr-bassman to clean up his crap off the lawn so it can be mown - its nearly knee high after the rain.
Once I'd done all I could be bothered with in the backyard, Rose I headed out front where I finally pulled up almost all of the grass between my iris'. It was even better after I realised that Rose could be praised into thinking that putting the weeds in the bin was a fabulous thing to do. I even scored praise from a passerby. He said, "you're doing a good job", but I couldn't work out if he was talking about my weeding or my parenting. Finished off the weeding with a planting reward - a ground cover thing with pink flowers that Rose chose about 4 weeks ago and I've been paranoid was going to die from a lack of water ever since. Next planting exercise is the seedlings. I've been waiting for them to stop being straggly for what seems like weeks now, when are they going to bush up and look like plants instead of seedlings? Maybe they need more sun than they're getting under the grapevine where I put them so they don't get burnt to a crisp.
Further domestic bliss was experienced when I put on a tape of nursery rhymes (by Maddie Prior and Tim whatsisname) and did the dishes and sang with Rose. I capped off my Happy Family experience by washing her (a once in a fortnight or so event), brushing her teeth (happens most days at least once, more often since she started kinder), found her pajamas (once every couple of days), read stories (most nights except when she falls asleep at 6pm) and then she happily turned over and went to sleep without asking for water, another toilet visit or to have some food.
Good news on her calcium intake though - the grated cheese is a winner. Rose doesn't drink milk, was refusing cheese sandwiches or other lumps of cheese and was playing with her morning yoghurt instead of eating it. On my list of things to do is to find other foods beside dairy that can give her the 4 or so servings she's supposed to be having.
After my nap we had dinner and then I had enough energy to go and address my garden. Rose and I headed out and watered, weeded and pruned my veg garden. OMG, maybe 4 squash plants was a mistake. Although they're looking interesting growing over the old ladder I set up for them. Sometime soon I'm \going to have to nag mr-bassman to clean up his crap off the lawn so it can be mown - its nearly knee high after the rain.
Once I'd done all I could be bothered with in the backyard, Rose I headed out front where I finally pulled up almost all of the grass between my iris'. It was even better after I realised that Rose could be praised into thinking that putting the weeds in the bin was a fabulous thing to do. I even scored praise from a passerby. He said, "you're doing a good job", but I couldn't work out if he was talking about my weeding or my parenting. Finished off the weeding with a planting reward - a ground cover thing with pink flowers that Rose chose about 4 weeks ago and I've been paranoid was going to die from a lack of water ever since. Next planting exercise is the seedlings. I've been waiting for them to stop being straggly for what seems like weeks now, when are they going to bush up and look like plants instead of seedlings? Maybe they need more sun than they're getting under the grapevine where I put them so they don't get burnt to a crisp.
Further domestic bliss was experienced when I put on a tape of nursery rhymes (by Maddie Prior and Tim whatsisname) and did the dishes and sang with Rose. I capped off my Happy Family experience by washing her (a once in a fortnight or so event), brushing her teeth (happens most days at least once, more often since she started kinder), found her pajamas (once every couple of days), read stories (most nights except when she falls asleep at 6pm) and then she happily turned over and went to sleep without asking for water, another toilet visit or to have some food.
Good news on her calcium intake though - the grated cheese is a winner. Rose doesn't drink milk, was refusing cheese sandwiches or other lumps of cheese and was playing with her morning yoghurt instead of eating it. On my list of things to do is to find other foods beside dairy that can give her the 4 or so servings she's supposed to be having.
