WTF did the weekend go?
Sunday Sunday..... the start of our working week! How the bloody hell did that come around so fast? Drinks with friends on Thursday, not many and not a late one but due to my new founded zen-ness over the summer (not really drinking much) I have turned into a proper lightweight (not that I was ever a heavy weight), meaning I spent most of the weekend feeling like death! So much so on Friday morning that I went back to bed and surfaced after lunch. My ever-so-sweet NJ (he's gone again now) made himself bacon and eggs (he's improving in the kitchen), phoned me about seven times for advice from downstairs and declared boredom on a global scale four hundred and thirty seven times before midday! The afternoon was spent feeling pants, walking round the mall buying school supplies and groceries. We picked up friends from the airport in the evening and spent a few hours catching up, mainly on their family and neighbours in Scotland whom I have never met LOL 😂 but fun to see them all the same. Ate pizza, drank diet coke and due to me being very rock n roll, back home and in bed before eleven and before the kid!
NJ and I went to the beach yesterday to do some SUP-ping. Unfortunately the heavy winds and currents meant we failed pretty miserably so there was lots of falling in to the soupy-warm ocean and paddling but getting nowhere fast! As a consequence of this, I spent a good three hours reading my book (bliss) and NJ spent the same amount of time holed up in the boot of my Jeep watching Netflix - he forgot his book #ofcoursehedid!
Last night was a traditional Dutch dinner of zuurkoolstampot (mashed potatoes with sauerkraut and bacon bits with smoked sausage and gravy nom nom) and some TV. Bedtime was followed by several hours of yo-yo-kid who couldn't sleep, interspersed with tears and talks, all dad related, all heart-breaking, all part of the process after a visit to the Netherlands. It's exhausting, frustrating, difficult and makes me terribly sad to watch him go through this. A lot of cuddles took place, some hard conversations and apologies. This morning he was late (YouTube), bold and rude. I drove to work in a bad mood.
Bad mood soon dissipated and there will be another conversation later today. It's a pattern, I struggle, he struggles, I'm the grown up, sometimes I mess up. We have each other.
xxx
NJ and I went to the beach yesterday to do some SUP-ping. Unfortunately the heavy winds and currents meant we failed pretty miserably so there was lots of falling in to the soupy-warm ocean and paddling but getting nowhere fast! As a consequence of this, I spent a good three hours reading my book (bliss) and NJ spent the same amount of time holed up in the boot of my Jeep watching Netflix - he forgot his book #ofcoursehedid!
Last night was a traditional Dutch dinner of zuurkoolstampot (mashed potatoes with sauerkraut and bacon bits with smoked sausage and gravy nom nom) and some TV. Bedtime was followed by several hours of yo-yo-kid who couldn't sleep, interspersed with tears and talks, all dad related, all heart-breaking, all part of the process after a visit to the Netherlands. It's exhausting, frustrating, difficult and makes me terribly sad to watch him go through this. A lot of cuddles took place, some hard conversations and apologies. This morning he was late (YouTube), bold and rude. I drove to work in a bad mood.
Bad mood soon dissipated and there will be another conversation later today. It's a pattern, I struggle, he struggles, I'm the grown up, sometimes I mess up. We have each other.
xxx
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