Parenting

Just finished rewatching Constantine with the kids last night. I’d forgotten how unfinished the end of this show was! Blows my mind that they couldn’t even do a quick “let’s wrap up the loose ends as best we can” episode… 📺

Sitting in on my daughter’s piano lesson and I’m drowning in awe. I don’t know how she got so talented. Wasn’t me.

The kids are back to school tomorrow. Thank God.

I love my children, but they don’t make it easy to work from home when they’re just hanging around.

The kids are with Nanna, so we had a date night tonight, a simple dinner at a nice Italian restaurant. Just as we finish eating the texts start arriving: “are you at the Italian restaurant without us?!?”

Kids were stalking us with Apple Find My. 🤣🤣

The kids are on school holidays now, so I don’t have to get up early to get them out the door. I switched off my morning alarm…

And awoke at 9.

I am so far behind schedule today.

Played Back to the Future: Back in Time today with my daughter. And just as we were getting a rhythm, Marty disappeared from the photo and we lost.

Next time.

Tonight I picked up my guitar for the first time time in a very long time to try to play some Taylor Swift with my daughter on her birthday. My fingers ache!

We’ve agreed our goal is to duet “Exile” by the end of the summer holidays.

Purgatory is just clothes shopping for your kids at Christmas time.

Daughter has her piano exam on today. A year of playing the same three songs is about to come to an end.

Had one of those weekends where I came away realising that my kids are both really awesome humans. Sometimes I forget in amongst all the teenage angst and attitude.

We watched Days of Future Past with the kids the other night, so I was telling them about how the Quicksilver kitchen scene was created in Adelaide and how I got to go and see how it was done for this article.

Not that long ago, my son would talk about how much money he would make in a year if he mowed our lawn every weekend.

Today, I gave up nagging him and tackled the grass jungle myself. He didn’t even look up.

Teenagers.

Daughter is away at school camp for the first time. Hope she’s having fun!

Yesterday I was reviewing the espresso monitor for BTTR and drew a picture.

My daughter was at Nanna’s, so I thought I’d send it to her. She loves that kind of thing.

I searched for her in messages on the computer, pasted it in, wrote a quick message:

“Hey beautiful, I drew you a picture”

And hit send.

Then I realised I had sent it to the cleaning company we use.

I tried to delete it, and thought I had succeeded. Until I got a message today.

“That’s lovely Nick but not sure if it was meant for Licence to Clean”.

I am officially dead.

This morning our lovely neighbours came over and invited us all to the Botanic Gardens for lunch. The kids and I rode our bikes in with them, and we enjoyed an afternoon of good food and great company.

It was just really nice to stop for a bit.

Daughter had her piano performance today and she smashed it. So very proud of her. And not just because she’s looking over my shoulder as I write this. 🤣🤣

For the past few times the kids have gone to Nanna’s, the wife and I have tried to beat Box 2 of the Monster Box of Monsters expansion to Hogwarts Battle.

Before yesterday, we had played that box 6 times, and lost every time.

But yesterday, we prevailed. It was glorious.

My son’s tech assessment on Friday is cooking up a burger, so he had a practice run through cooking for the family tonight. It was really good!

Left it pretty late to do my taxes this year, but it has now been checked off the todo list. Pity the tax return has effectively already been spent on the kids…