This week was the first real week back at work. I did dribbles last week, but this week came in with a steady stream of new properties to go see and just a little more than what I can count on two hands to view and write for the week. So in saying that, mixed in with all the admin work to do, this week, the school holidays were a little mundane for my boys.
With a little under two weeks of holidays left, the boys generally spent their days just wearing their jocks, and strangely deciding to put on a t-shirt to go to bed (rather than the other way around). I did have one sickie, who came down with tonsillitis on Sunday morning, thanks to me from a couple of weeks ago, so a quiet week was going to be on the cards. They did, I admit, do about 45 minutes - 1.5 hours of homework each day each, which usually was met begrudgingly, however when we got stuck into it, they were happy to do it. However, the rest was a combination of playing Wii, watching YouTube videos on Apple TV about their 'Wii games', playing Minecraft or Clash of the Clans on their their iPads, persuading me to buy things for them on eBay, playing lego, drawing and rough-housing each other. I did try to persuade them to go outside, but I was met with negative feelings.
We did go for a night walk on Monday night which meant putting some clothes on. We were actually lucky enough to meet up with some school friends where the boys played a little basketball together, but that's about all the physical activity they did (whereas, I've been a good girl and gone for a morning walk every day!). I did manage to get one off the couch and take him to a work appointment on Tuesday followed by some grocery shopping, we did have some visitors on Wednesday which meant they had to put some clothes on and I did manage to take both of them out today to visit their cousin, but every other thing I suggest has had it's nose turned up at it. Even a trip to the movies or a take-out meal!!
However, due to the lack of activity, their eating habits have been lessened, and strangely healthy, including choosing to have raw vegetables for breakfast, peaches and mangoes for lunch and barbecue sausages with salad for dinner. The only snacking that was done was mango & coconut ice-blocks. We did have one extremely hot day (41 degrees Celsius), so it was best to stay indoors, even though I suggested we should go for a morning swim down the beach, but again, they didn't want to leave the couch.
But the boys did deserve a little break.... they had 3 full days (8am-6pm) at Cartoon Camp last week. The problem now is, how to keep them occupied and not too bored for the next 12 days, while work steps up new notches. However, it was interesting that neither of them told me they were bored this week, which can happen quite a bit. Hopefully we will cover 4 days with a little before-school trip as long as the country's bushfires don't dampen our efforts, but who knows what's on for this weekend. I'll keep you posted! :)
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