Back to School

The Littlies went back to school today, and that have me chance to get the lounge changed up and back to normal, after all the Christmas decorations were removed yesterday. All that's left to do is tidy and sort out Princess Lollipop's toys and games in her space behind the sofa that she calls Girls World :-)
Both Littlies enjoyed their return to school, and although I miss them I'm glad to be getting back into a routine.
When we were all back home we worked together to get the last of the lounge tidied, the Littlies and Mr Messy helped without whinging, I'm very proud of all three of them :-)

Twelfth Night

Today's positive was definitely taking the Christmas decorations down :-) And also getting the Littlies stuff ready for school the day before, instead of running round like idiots tomorrow morning :-) The uniforms are all ironed (Thank you Mr Messy) and put out ready, the shoes need the restoring polish buffing up, but Mr Messy said he'll do that in the morning and that along with making Princess Lollipops lunch is all he's got left to do.
AND my Craft Class restarted :-) The teacher was I'll for the last few weeks of term last year so the classes haven't run for what seems like she's, and I've really missed them, so it's another positive for today that they are on again :-)

Just a Nice Quiet Day

Today was just a nice, ordinary, quiet, family day. The type of day I dream of when the Littlies are constantly fighting, or when Little Prince isn't coping and is acting out.And my positive for today is that we've had more of these sorts of ordinary days over the Christmas hols than the horrible stressful sort  :-)

I know we haven't got to the huge destabilising hormones of puberty yet, but Little Prince has come so far with his coping skills and ability to self regulate that the past couple of school holidays haven't left me a gibbering wreck who can't wait for school to restart. In fact I'm going to miss these quiet ordinary days with my Littlies when they are back at school. 

Another Positive Day

Even though I didn't get any of the jobs on my To Do List done, it has been a lovely day :-) I introduced Princess Lollipop to the joys of coin collecting on the Wii Lego Pirates of the Caribbean game, and she loves it :-) She didn't want to come off the game for either her tea or bedtime and wants to play it again tomorrow.Although tomorrow I will have to start working through my To Do List too, so we won't be able to play all day.
Little Prince has a mainly calm day, even without his medicine and I was really proud of him :-)
The only downside to today is that Drama Teen returned to university and I miss her, lots :-(  She is coming home again next weekend to have her hair extensions removed, so it's not too long before I get to see her again :-)

Day Three

Feeling more positive today thankfully, probably because I got a full nights sleep with no sickie visitors (Little Prince spent an hour in our bed, before throwing up everywhere and going back to his own bed feeling much better!).
Today's positive is that I've finished sorting out Little Prince's room, all shelves, toy boxes and even the floor have been thoroughly cleared of rubbish, washing and broken bits (and unidentified "stuff" that I'd rather not know what it was)!! All I've got left still to do is vac and mop the floor :-)
I can't take credit for most of the tidying and sorting as LMS did WAY more of it than I did, she was a superstar and I'm very grateful for all her help - thank you very much darling xxx

Struggling to Find a Positive :-(

It's not good that on day two I'm really struggling to come up with a positive for the day :-( It's been a long, stressful day at home with the warring Littlies and unfortunately I've spent most of the day losing my cool with both of them, not my best mothering day.
I found my positive later when I was cuddled up with Princess Lollipop getting her to sleep, as I tell her every night, it's my favourite time of the day :-)

2014 Year of Positives

I'm tentatively going to try blogging again, I enjoy it once I'm back in the habit, so here we go :-)
A couple of years ago, me and some fellow bloggers started to note something positive for each day of the year, unfortunately I got derailed when Mr and Mrs LMS split up and didn't continue with the positive posts. Now LMS is in a much better place and has turned her life completely around and is back on track to achieve goals she put aside to get married, I've decided to try again.
Today's positive is starting the New Year with the Littlies at my Mum and Dad's house, then returning home to spend the rest of the day with Mr Messy and LMS :-)