I haven't been looking forward to Half Term and I usually do, I love having my kids at home full time (at least at the start, there might be occasions towards the end of the school holidays when I wonder what on earth I was thinking!!)
This time I was wondering how I'd be able to keep up my usual lunchtime run while looking after two tweens!
Would they come with me? Would I be able to leave them on their own? Should I take a week off?
Well the answer to the first question was No they wouldn't and the looks they gave me made it very clear I was lucky they'd even got dressed this morning!
And I didn't want to take a week off, especially after getting such a buzz after my Friday run last week.
So could I leave them on their own? To put it in to context they are 10 and 12 and the 12 year old has been staying home alone for a good few months now and so far he hasn't burnt down the house or injured himself. But leaving them alone together is a different ball game. They love each other very much and the majority of the time they do get on brilliantly but when they do fall out, they FALL OUT - it's not pretty and it can get violent, and that's with parental supervision.
Still it would only be for half an hour, I only run 2 miles in a circuit so if anything did go wrong I could get back to them very quickly. Decision made - but it still wasn't easy to walk out of the door.
They were fine. In fact when I got back they couldn't believe I'd even been gone a full half an hour.
They hadn't killed each other, they hadn't broken anything, the cats were still asleep on the sofa - SUCCESS - minecraft is just as good a babysitter as CBeebies used to be when they were tiny :)
They've now been fed to keep the happy mood going and are upstairs playing happily with their Lego. Totally unaware that they've done something momentous today, being left alone is a big step but it seems like it's only a big step for mum!
This time I was wondering how I'd be able to keep up my usual lunchtime run while looking after two tweens!
Would they come with me? Would I be able to leave them on their own? Should I take a week off?
Well the answer to the first question was No they wouldn't and the looks they gave me made it very clear I was lucky they'd even got dressed this morning!
And I didn't want to take a week off, especially after getting such a buzz after my Friday run last week.
So could I leave them on their own? To put it in to context they are 10 and 12 and the 12 year old has been staying home alone for a good few months now and so far he hasn't burnt down the house or injured himself. But leaving them alone together is a different ball game. They love each other very much and the majority of the time they do get on brilliantly but when they do fall out, they FALL OUT - it's not pretty and it can get violent, and that's with parental supervision.
Still it would only be for half an hour, I only run 2 miles in a circuit so if anything did go wrong I could get back to them very quickly. Decision made - but it still wasn't easy to walk out of the door.
They were fine. In fact when I got back they couldn't believe I'd even been gone a full half an hour.
They hadn't killed each other, they hadn't broken anything, the cats were still asleep on the sofa - SUCCESS - minecraft is just as good a babysitter as CBeebies used to be when they were tiny :)
They've now been fed to keep the happy mood going and are upstairs playing happily with their Lego. Totally unaware that they've done something momentous today, being left alone is a big step but it seems like it's only a big step for mum!
