Tuncis

February 24, 2008

When cooking in no more fun

This time I have a very good reason for longer silence. We had small shock therapy of 3 children family as Kaido's sister with her husband went for almost 3 week trip, and we agreed to take care of their 2 kids in addition to Hanna.
As a result, any free time left was used for sleeping. If by some miracle anything was still left, then it was used for house reconstruction decision-making. It wasn't much though, and with reconstruction we are terribly behind the schedule...
The story, however, is about big family. I have to admit that it wasn't so bad :)), sometimes quite some fun. Here are some conclusions:
* The worst thing for me was cooking-cooking-cooking. It's quite much related to the fact that currently I'm staying at home with small baby during the day. So largest part of cooking naturally become my duty when kids came home from school with empty stomachs. When I'm on my own, then sometimes I can live without any reasonable meal, but with kids it's not an option. When there is too much cooking, it's no more fun.
* Time planning skills improve exponentially with every added kid.
* Priority setting skills improve exponentially with every added kid.
* After children get older than 3 years, 1 child is more time-consuming than 2 or more. With 1 child you have to play, entertain him/her etc, but with at least 2 children, they have enough fun among themselves. You just have to interrupt from time to time to turn the volume down.
* Now, when Kaido's sister has returned and we are back to our little family, suddenly I have a feeling that I have soooooo much time to do much more things. Relativity theory works :).