hello!!

I went to work in the gallery today and they had taken the computer away!! darn! I had to read my book!!  It The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.  Its actually very good and very readable.  But its just depressing!  The characters are all so f**cked up.  I don't imagine its going to have a happy ending either.... and I had to keep stopping because it was just so unpleasant and made me think that like the world is not a very nice place and so on (or it maybe that I am nearing that time of the month where life can seem bleaker than it really is?? hmm?) So I was going to post earlier, but now its later and really I just want to go and have a nice hot bath and go to bed.  Good news is that I have found the lead that connects the iphone (my camera, these days) to my laptop... well its good news for me anyway.  Other good news is that I found the Ergo Baby Carrier (I had left it at the Friday Playgroup, and someone had handed it in, bless em, it being worth a lot on ebay and all)

For the next two weeks I am basically being a nanny.  I have K, who is 2 and very sweet 2 days and 2 mornings.  And then on some days I will have M too.  Which I am not looking forward to.  Not that M is not lovely, but Bub is going through, er, behavioural *issues* which basically means he turns into a wee devil and is a bit of a mare to cope with at certain points, like meal times or getting out of the house, and the time before last that M was here, Bub really bullied him and would hit if I left the room.  So 3 little boys....... I am hoping to swap Bub's nursery days around a bit so as to minimise the hell!! 

Hub has been finding Bub very challenging lately.  Well, Bub is 95% of the time delightful and then 5% extremely challenging these days. and is worse if he is tired. which is always as he keeps getting up the moment its vaguely light.  I dunno 3 yr olds eh?  We kind of sailed through the 'terrible twos' and seem to be hitting this now.  Basically, he goes ballistic over nothing.  He launched a full out attack on Hub earlier today because the Ravenous Beast story DVD wasn't working properly.  I mean I know it was disapointing, but it was quite violent.  Its not really what you want in the behaviour of your child.  We are using the 'sit on the step' technique (all we really know, from watching SuperNanny!) Hub finds it really hard not to lose his temper, so do I to be honest.  It is not at all nice to see!  Anyway, we might see if we can talk to someone about it.  Its hard to know quite what to do.  I just hope it ends and is just a phase!!