I kept Skip and Flip home yesterday and today on the account of Flip having developed “le nasale snotay” and I didn’t want it to develop further than it already is. Skip I kept home, just to keep Flip company so that I could try and work a bit.

It’s been a bit crazy actually. A situation for which I naturally blame my hubby.  (of course, if we can’t blame our husbands for these things, then who can we blame?).

Follow my thinking for a second here… If he hadn’t insisted on having his laptop in MY office, this would never have happened. It’s like he doesn’t accept that my business has to take over a whole (albeit tiny) bedroom in our home.

NO. It has to be OUR office. He has to have space on MY desk for HIS laptop.

Now, since he’s not here during the day, that shouldn’t be a problem, since I usually link up his laptop to the scanner and then use it as part of my routine when I’m working, so that I can have the printer attached to my computer. It’s not an ideal situation, but it works. At least my desk is a door that I’ve put on trestles (and painted white) so it’s larger than normal.

However, hubby’s laptop also has the big external hard drive attached which has all the kids movies, and our favorites backed up on it, so the kids have become accustomed to “daddy’s putah” being the home entertainment station. Because yeah, dstv pretty much doesn’t have enough stuff on it (insert your preferred level of sarcasm here).

So now, I get interrupted 100x more than normal, by the kids trying to watch something on daddy’s laptop, Skip wanting to use MS Paint on the laptop, begging me to print out various pictures that he makes, one of them needing help getting onto daddy’s office chair (which is in the way anyway) then having the other one hanging off me, trying to get onto my lap to watch whatever the other one is doing, or begging me to do farmville or cafe world or frontierville or in fact anything vaguely entertaining for them. This would normally only be an issue if they were off school, because naturally when they’re normally home on weekends we’re either out doing stuff, or they’re being cute and cuddly with daddy.

BUT since the Soccer World Cup is on, and Daddy has made it his mission to watch every single game on TV aside from the two that he is getting to watch live (England vs Algeria tonight, and one of the quarterfinals as well), the kids are now bugging me during the time I would normally go into my sanctuary, close the door and work like blazers as well.

So what happens is Dad is out in the lounge hogging the television or generally just suffering from uncommunicative male with remote syndrome, and I’m STILL not able to be as productive as I’d like to be.

In fact the only reason I’m getting this blog post out right now is because the kids are fighting over the little airport that has this arm that lifts up the little propeller plane flies it at varying heights around the control tower and then lowers it again.

Yesterday I decided it had been far to long since I picked up my camera, and took some photos of Skip and Flip, who were being a bit moody with me and not their usual smiley, posey selves.

As you will see from these pics that I took.

Skips mood is quite obvious, and it led me to process the photos in black and white, and add noise to increase the sense of drama!

Flip was sitting in his little leather armchair that we bought for them both (they each have their own) and the way he was lounging in it reminded me that one day too, he will probably suffer from uncommunicative male with remote syndrome, but for now he is still unbearably cute, even if we’d reached the scary part in “Nemo” as you will see from his slightly concerned expression.

Skip on the other hand is looking livid that I’m *forcing* him to watch something he’s seen more than 100x rather than letting him watch Ben X, which is of course, on ‘daddy’s putah’.

I’m writing this to you, with the sounds of that squirrel in Ice Age 3 struggling to hold onto his beloved acorn…

Yes, my kids are watching too much TV.

It’s the school holidays.

SUE ME.

Okay, now I feel bad.

Just so that you know I’m not totally ditching them to that great babysitter in a box, here’s some proof that we actually take them out regardless of the weather, for some great exercise. (though I suspect this was the start of Flips “le nasale snotay”)

One more thing!

I did a post over at my other blog, about why the brand new released Apple Mac Mini is perfect for my mom! Head over there if you’re interested!

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