Today I don’t feel like doing anything.
I just wanna lay in my bed.
Just gotta make the kids and chickens breakfast, get them dressed, brushed and off to school (kids, not chickens), amuse the Badoo, tidy up with a small person helping, clean up after the small person who helped, phone the plumbers, phone the gardeners, phone lifeline, race to the shops, find a park, do the grocery shopping, swap the wrong size raincoat I foolishly bought Cappers, find a pair of trainers that Cappers will like (blue but not boyish, not pink, maybe purple), drive home, make Badoo lunch, tidy up after Badoo lunch, amuse the Badoo, make afternoon tea, do the school run, collect six kids (and a euphonium), administer afternoon tea, get all kids changed and run them to pottery class, take Badoo and a spare to the park, amuse the Badoo and the spare, drop spare home, pick up after pottery class, make dinner while supervising homework, run the bath, put kids in the bath, take kids out of the bath, drown self in bath, dry kids, assist into pyjamas, administer dinner, clean up after dinner, greet returning hero husband, love you love you love you, watch husband feed chickens, reward any shred of good behaviour for the day with marbles, brush kids’ teeth, bedtime routine, send children back to bed who get out of bed threatening no marbles for tomorrow, grimace at husband, threaten to close their bedroom door if they come out one more time, eat own dinner with husband, smile at husband occasionally, make paper flowers for the kinder lunch tomorrow, shower, brush teeth… … … I just wanna lay in my bed.
‘Cause today I swear I’m not doing anything.
Nothing at all.
[Image by Vanessa Paxton via Flickr]
Yvette @ Delightfully Tacky says
ooo I like this post!!!! Its about something that most people would consider nothing.. but its your day.. your lazy day.. and when you write it out you actually do alot!!
love love LOVE it!!
Lipstick and Licorice says
I remember it clearly 1991…..true
Pickers Peloton says
Now I’m tired…
PinkPatentMaryJanes says
Mmmm, bed…I’m far too guilty to ever allow myself a lazy day. But a gal can always dream.
jody says
I am exhausted just reading that. Please don’t do any of it and have a lazy day. xx
alison@thisbloominglife says
Had one of those days myself…thought no work today yeah! Except one broken arm child, one flat tyre, one 10 year old pigstye (sorry bedroom), one paid urgent job, one dinner for 5 , one herd of cows screaming for a new paddock, etc etc I hear you!
InkPaperPen says
I need to lie down just after reading that post. Wishing you a REAL lazy day soon x
Nat - Muddy Farmwife says
Wow, a busy day! You should have stayed in bed!
Mother guilt sets in, if I try to stay in bed even a little longer than usual, that and the fact that I know I’m going to have to clean up twice the amount of mess if I leave hubby to it with the kids, works out easier to just get up.
Hope you get a lazy day soon.
Sandrine says
Yes I agree it never stops when YOu have little ones, no time for lazy days! 🙂 When I was working full time I thought I had no time, now I am home and I still do not know where the time goes and it never stops :)Hope you get a mini break hopefully! x
rex says
I know…….one day I just want to sleep till noon, and roll outa bed, laze in my pj’s. Watch a crappy movie and feed no-one else but me. And bathe no-one else but me. Don’t drive anywhere and answer to no-one.
The last time I did this was probably about 11 years ago, not once have I done this since then. Man I am tired! One day I know it will change.
I am dreaming with you though until then.
Sarah says
For real… Before kids… on a day off work…
I know my definition of a lazy day has changed dramatically now I have children and all… Lazy day for me now is a day where we dont have anything planned or prebooked. The usual stuf for house/children happen but at least there is no time pressures.
Rhi@FlourChild says
Urghh, sounds horrible.
I complain enough about having to take ONE kid to dance classes after school, and I don’t even offer to take spares or pick-up extras!
Stay in bed tomorrow with a mystery unexplained illness, I say. Though as many times as I have thought of doing it, obviously it never happens.
My last lazy day was August 2007.
x
ally says
I’m amazed how much you achieved after drowning yourself in bath.
Also wondering how many marbles the husband scored
Be kind to yourself
xx
Jane says
Oh Bron, I’m hearing you in stereo! Will you please hop out of my head?! The things we mums do…J x
Mum on the Run says
Do you ever wonder (fantasize) about a small hospitalisation?
Nothing too serious.
Possibly one requiring quarantine??
🙂 x
CATE PEARCE says
Luckily I get the odd lazy day now everybody is all growed up.
But every husband who comes home from work and says “what the hell did you do all day?” should be directed here.
Em says
Aaaah, it’s my life (minus about three of the kids) but IT’S MY LIFE! And it would be funny if it wasn’t so true. Or if I wasn’t just sitting here wallowing in self-pity :: 10pm, sitting down to craft, NO, do the grocery shopping online because I DON’T KNOW WHERE I’M GOING TO SQUEEZE IT IN THIS WEEK!
Breathe!
Oh, funny, mothery life!
xx
Rhonda says
I can’t remember the last time I had a complete and total lazy day! I was supposed to have a lazy weekend, but it did not turn out that way.
Kim H says
That’s a really, really full on day, Bron. I don’t know how you flippin do it! Oh, and everytime I
hear that song I sing different words. Some youtuber that Lew’s watched about 100 times made them up:
Today I saw a llama inside a car {do do do dodo}
He ws eating tacos with cheese
Thought someone had kidnapped him
Turns out it was my friend Tim
Today I saw a llama inside a car {do do do dodo}
Catchy, huh?
I know you just tried singing it didn’t you, Bron:)
About Last Weekend says
“Amuse the baddoo”? Love it! This is my youngest’s favourite song, he sang it in the school talent show…
Lisa @ HomeWorkMum says
Lazy day…………..just dreaming about it is a treat!
I think now that I work full-time from home, I’m always going to find something to do.
Every time I try to just have a little break by hiding in the laundry, someone deperately needs something, and it can’t wait!!!!
Thanks Bron, good to know we’re all lusting after those days x
Madam Bongani says
WOW, when you see it written down like that!! Not sure when my next lazy day will be…..just enjoy thinking about it!
Taryn says
love the notion of a ‘spare’!!! you’re a gem xx
Jen R says
Managed a lazy 7hrs by myself yesterday…after kids got on the bus…stayed in pjs and pottered till lunchtime….read blogs…did some sewing then they were home again…great whilst it lasted 🙂
Karla {Ironmum Karla} says
uh huh, uh huh, husband takes the kids off my hands to relax, chill and spend so much time getting through my list, cleaning etc that BAM, they are back….oh and getting to bed early….it never happens!x
Felicity says
Ssh….what’s with all the singing & chatting already?
Can’t you see I’m trying to sleep?
xx
Lisa H says
Do lazy days really exist?
Vanessa says
So great to see our days written down like that. Thanks for making me smile!
Kat @ I Saw You Dancing says
Thought you’d like this today:
http://www.superherojournal.com/2012/02/07/my-new-mantra-let-it-be-simple/
Anna @ green tea n toast says
I have no clue when I last had a totally lazy day. My husband and I often fantasise about the days pre-kids when weekends were real weekends. Can’t believe we didn’t relish each and every one of those lazy days until it was too late! Hope your day was a lazy one.
LionessLady says
I’m not surprised you need a lazy day. I am exhausted just reading that!!!
Down that Little Lane says
Thanks for making me feel oh so normal.. I had a lazy day yesterday it only involved a brother in law to entertain, swimming classes,sushi then cupcake making and multiple and I mean multiple LONG phonecalls with Optus, Apple Support and a rather angry customer service desk at Dick Smith.. want details?
Penny says
Smiling. Love how a mums version of not doing anything would wear out a marathon runner.
Kelly Exeter says
Funny – maybe our cycles in sync Bron 🙂 This morning, on my downstairs from the bedroom, I had this huge urge to just go back to bed. And stay there all day!
For some reason the thought of another day tick tick tick ticking off the myriad of little jobs I do to keep my house and life and family running smoothly just got a bit tooooo groundhog for me.
But in the end I kept walking down the stairs and carried on 🙂
Life In A Pink Fibro says
Auugh, Maxabella. Something’s gotta give. Don’t let it be you. x
1000 Homes of Happiness says
Ahhh, John and Yoko style. I crave a ‘bed in’. Not sure if they had kiddies when they took to bed in protest though Bron. 😉
tahlia @ the parenting files says
we all should have a lazy day! Should be mandatory! wasn’t there something like a “mental health day”….the lazy days in bed are even better when it is cold and miserable and you can hear the rain pat pat patting on your roof… xxx
Brenda @ Mira Narnie says
ahhh yes, the day of doing exactly what you want to do – when will that come??? I think we have more chance of waiting for adult cloning to be invented, so you can clone yourself and then the original you gets to lay in bed whilst your clone has to do THAT stuff xx
Andrea says
ah hell…i have this to look forward to don’t I.
Kymmie says
Oh those lazy days are awesome aren’t they? I must say, I’m planning on a lazy day one day soon.
Possibly in another country while somebody does all those other things with my children somewhere far, far away!
Oh Bron, life is so mad sometimes. And this is the reason why you have your solo annual holiday. Because every day is like this for you!
Hugs.
xx