Assessment for learning

You could do a masters in 3 years. Maybe I should suggest a Masters in' Mum' to the open university as many of the skills I have learnt are both useful and transferrable and may help forward my furture career path in numerous fields. Admittidly, some of the skills I have learnt have more limited uses.

New Skills Audit

1: Knowledge on how best to remove the smell of Fish Finger Vomit - solution involves bicarb and a new car playmat from Ikea £9.99- a bargain!
2: Ability to encourage son to fart on his fathers side of the bed not my own- solution involves much bribing.
3: Ability to get two sleeping tots and one push bike up the hill home with only a single push chair- solution involves cheating via use of kindly neighbour
4: Ability to remove challenging substances such as playdough, porridge and the surprisingly concrete dried banana from faces, clothes, flooring, furniture,curtains and so on.
5: Ability to still be awake after 45 mins of rocking and singing in the dark.
6: Ability to drive/work/teach/Mum on under 4hrs of sleep....just about......If Maggie can run the country on it I can darn well Mum. Will not be shown up...grit teeth....pin open eyes...drink more coffee.....
7: Awareness of all avaliable toileting spots in a 5 mile radius- could set up the Mum's version of 'The Knowledge'
8: Ability to seek out suitable toileting spot within 1 min time limit in unknown terrain.

Areas of development

1: Maintaining level of calm when trying to leave the house quickly on a cold and blustery day when faces by adverse factors of winging kids, unmatched gloves and missing shoes.
2:Maintaining calm when faced with two kids who point blank refuse to eat the nutritious and budget friendly meal lovingly prepared for them
3: Maintaining calm when tot will not share toys with friend despite insisting all week friend comes over.
4: Improving organisation to ensure there is enough bread on packed lunch day and not be the only unorganised mum making sandiches from Stop n Shop goods outside the school gates.
5: Ability not to get clocked by other mothers preparing lunch from Stop n Shop goods outside school gates.
6: Maintaining calm when yet again for no freaking reason the kids are awake and screaming from 12-4am...why oh why? Maybe this is some sort of final exam test.
7: Ability to reduce beautifying routine to leave house in satisfactory time without resulting look being 'bag lady chic'

I dreamed a dream

Recently I have been experiencing a period of very active night time imaginings. This could be for a number of reasons. possibly as due to the tiny amounts of very broken sleep I am currently getting, somehow my brain feels it needs to cram as much dream doings on in the small window avaliable. Possible it could be because two kids plus endless DIY plus exm season = very busy brain and limited process time when awake. Either way it's not making for a restful nights sleep as I seem to constantly be having high action ninja/asassin style adventures which seem both physically and mentally exhausting. Well, constantly expept for the one time I had a very dull work dream in which I was struggling with a tedious process which I spend enough work time dwelling on to bother with at home, let alone in my sleep.

In other news team Anonimum is thriving, save the odd tummy complaint and pre-school mishap. We are looking into chicken rearing- as we clearly don't have enough on our plates! We have many plans, some are achievable and some probably pie in the sky.  I'm throwing around ideas for our kitchen renovations. It seems a huge project  but one that can happily wait the 10 yrs before we have the cash to afford it, Well maybe 15 yrs at the current rate. Think we'll have to stick to a bit of new lino for now.