Mothering Many

Ok, so I posted that I needed to come up with some plans for the children. They will home tomorrow evening and I’ve come up with this: I think that instead of playing with them after my work is done, I will spend some time with them first thing in the morning. We can play Chutes and Ladders and Othello and such. After that, I will give them some tv time, and get a bit of work done. After lunch, we can have “quiet time” where the readers read and the non-readers sleep. By the time that’s done, I should be at a point where I can call it a day and spend the rest of the afternoon and evening hanging out with them.

What that means for me is that on the weeks they are gone, I need to be generating a lot of drafts that I can pull up, edit, and publish on days we get busy and lose track of time. Because I am certain that once we start playing that is so gonna happen, which is why I try to do it after my work is done.

However, summer and childhood are short. I’ll adapt. And I hope this works, because otherwise, I will be burning so much midnight oil that I am gonna need under eye cream for dark circles and even more coffee than I am already drinking. Which is already more than I want to confess.