It seems that BB fancies his chances in the argument stakes. Whilst he has mostly been an all round good egg whilst stuck with dad all week, it seems that every day at one point on another he shows his stubborn streak (the one he obviously gets from his mother).
Recent conversations have gone along the lines of "BB, please do this or that....." only for him to reply "No Daddy, I won't! You should let people do what they want to do." The cheeky wee shite even threatened not to eat his snack yesterday after being dissatisfied with chicken being offered for dinner. "I will not eat my snack if you make chicken for dinner" he declared......clearly he has much to learn in the art of striking a deal. For the record, he ate both the snack and the chicken.....and no children were harmed in the scoffing of these meals!
So far, the only reason I appear to be winning our little argument is by virtue of the fact I am even more stubborn coupled with the fact that I have taken away bedtime stories more than once this week. We seem to be making progress, but I think secretly we'd both rather have mum home as it's getting somewhat tiresome for both of us.
Speaking of storytelling, LL had me all to himself this afternoon whilst BB went to one of his friends house for lunch. He revelled in the one to one attention and seems to be developing his brother's appetite for books as we sat on the sofa and read one after the other for half an hour or so.
Mum is stuck in a foggy North Sea yet again - what are the odds?? In the last 7 years I have not done an additional night offshore because of weather, yet she has got stuck twice in the last few months.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Single Parenting
As we continue to operate primarily as two individual single parents, I thought I had best post a pic or two of todays trip. We ventured to the paddling area at the local each, before heading back to BB's favourite farm for a picnic with his nursery mates.
Fantastic weather, worn out kids. Thought I'd best share with MPLST who is on a rig with crap phone and internet facilities. Hopefully she will see these though.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Handover
Parenting is getting a bit like work these days. I think we'd be better having a Microsoft word handover than a verbal one too, then at least I'd be able to find things MPLST has taken upon herself to move (the extension lead comes to mind).
Speaking of the handover - I've got a gripe. It's not a new one, well, at least not to MPLST. Being a hands on dad of the times, I have taken it upon myself to bin the girlie change bag we used when BB was a baby in favour of something you might call, half way trendy in a sort of mid life crisis kind of way. You know, the kind of bag that a man nearer 40 than 30 would use, that 10 years ago he would not have contemplated carrying, even in the middle of the night in a strange faraway land for fear of being seen looking somewhat gay.
And being a rather anal sort of fella, I like my man bag to be organised and tidy. This is somewhat difficult to achieve when one's choice in bag appears to be acceptable for the woman in one's life (which in itself should have all the alarm bells ringing from my perspective) to use when he's not around. I now find myself having to give it a thorough inspection before heading out. And just as well I did too. As if I don't look suspect enough in my muckle frame carrying a bag that my wife does, I have removed such goodies as tampons and "daily hair repair cream". The mind boggles as to what people would think should such articles fall from ones man bag at the wrong time.
All is sorted now though. I now have a spare change of clothes that actually fit LL in there, some nappies, wipes and not bloody tampons.
Whilst I'm sharing embarrassing stories - here's another for you to giggle at. On Wednesday morning, I met a new mum at the toddler group. On Thursday, we just happened to be in the same place at a local farm play area come coffee house. She found out that the locks don't work properly in the portacabin loos there, and in a way neither of us is likely to forget soon. As she burst in to the unisex WC, we both found out my lock was buggered as she opened the door to find my taking a dump.
Poor lass.
Speaking of the handover - I've got a gripe. It's not a new one, well, at least not to MPLST. Being a hands on dad of the times, I have taken it upon myself to bin the girlie change bag we used when BB was a baby in favour of something you might call, half way trendy in a sort of mid life crisis kind of way. You know, the kind of bag that a man nearer 40 than 30 would use, that 10 years ago he would not have contemplated carrying, even in the middle of the night in a strange faraway land for fear of being seen looking somewhat gay.
And being a rather anal sort of fella, I like my man bag to be organised and tidy. This is somewhat difficult to achieve when one's choice in bag appears to be acceptable for the woman in one's life (which in itself should have all the alarm bells ringing from my perspective) to use when he's not around. I now find myself having to give it a thorough inspection before heading out. And just as well I did too. As if I don't look suspect enough in my muckle frame carrying a bag that my wife does, I have removed such goodies as tampons and "daily hair repair cream". The mind boggles as to what people would think should such articles fall from ones man bag at the wrong time.
All is sorted now though. I now have a spare change of clothes that actually fit LL in there, some nappies, wipes and not bloody tampons.
Whilst I'm sharing embarrassing stories - here's another for you to giggle at. On Wednesday morning, I met a new mum at the toddler group. On Thursday, we just happened to be in the same place at a local farm play area come coffee house. She found out that the locks don't work properly in the portacabin loos there, and in a way neither of us is likely to forget soon. As she burst in to the unisex WC, we both found out my lock was buggered as she opened the door to find my taking a dump.
Poor lass.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Eejit!
It would appear that the North Sea doesn't have the monopoly on morons. Have a read of this article.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10285707.stm
Not being the type to jump on the sexual hysteria bandwagon, I can accept that this stupid bugger (oops, probably could have used a better word there) was not acting in a sexually perverse way.
That said, what he did was surely beyond neglect? It really winds me up when journalists harass social workers to the point of putting them on the dole when a case goes wrong, and yet morons like this actually go unpunished.
Rant over.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10285707.stm
Not being the type to jump on the sexual hysteria bandwagon, I can accept that this stupid bugger (oops, probably could have used a better word there) was not acting in a sexually perverse way.
That said, what he did was surely beyond neglect? It really winds me up when journalists harass social workers to the point of putting them on the dole when a case goes wrong, and yet morons like this actually go unpunished.
Rant over.
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