G'day people.
TM, sounds like a relaxing, peaceful day you have planned. Enjoy the waterpark - I love those places!
Step, I hope work is productive for you today.
I was up early to get sis-in-law's girls off to the airport. Younger niece has a broken foot, her older sister's attentions were needed to help her on and off the plane. mother in law & difficult child 3 came too, because they had eye doctor appointments afterwards. With those numbers plus the luggage, my van as needed (and therefore me driving). Plus I was needed to pay difficult child 3's bill for new glasses.
difficult child 3 has been more of a handful lately, and I'm wondering if having so much family staying for so long has been a factor. Niece was twitting difficult child 3 this morning abut his lack of manners; she did last night, too, when he said he didn't like the onion that she had laboriously made (he doesn't like onions, but t least he tried it). Niece has been really good with him, but although they seem to understand intellectually, they still expect miraculous improvements in his behaviour simply because they are correcting him. As if his behaviour is only a problem because I let him get away with it.
I've been coming down with a bad cold over the last day or two, and today it turned into a bacterial infection. So I didn't go down to mother in law's for dinner tonight, but I still sent husband down, with difficult child 3 as usual going down later after he was nagged. Part of the problem is, he gets hassled when he turns up late, and this doesn't encourage him to turn up early. I noticed this morning someone was teasing difficult child 3 (can't remember if it was mother in law or sis-in-law) and difficult child 3 just didn't get it. I had to say, "It's OK, she's teasing you," but when he tries to tease back (in his hamfisted way) he gets into trouble for being rude.
I was supposed to go out to a meeting tomorrow, but when the organiser emailed me to say most people were either sick or on holidays but would come if I was going to be there, I suggested he cancel it. A good thing, too - by late afternoon I was running quite a fever.
husband is also staying home tomorrow (good) so we hopefully will have a fairly quiet day.
Enjoy your Friday, folks.
Marg