Why School Holidays Do My Head In....

This sketch is the only thing I have looked like completing since Spring break started

which is only one day ago

it feels longer though

because, while I love my daughter and husband dearly

having them both home is not that conducive to good work habits

and I despair of how I will survive the next few weeks

I am not being overly dramatic or mean .... honestly

here is a run down of my first day of the break

Phantom is brilliantly stupid

she has a magnificent brain but is somewhat patchy on the common sense skills

I was just starting to work when she called out

that she needed a scooper thing for the pool to catch the little lobster thing

lobster thing??? all I could think was how did a prawn get in the pool? 

did it have wings.... ooo maybe we can sell it on ebay???

so I duly send Sinus out with scooper... 

which required him to brave the spider infested shed

to have him take a look at the lobster thing

not a lobster it turns out

or a prawn with wings

it is, in fact,  a grasshopper

now Phantom has academic achievements and awards spilling out her ears

but it seems she doesn't know the difference between a grasshopper and a crustacean

Sinus dropped the scooper in disgust and left the poor dead thing in its icy grave

We duly taunted and teased her and retreated back to our various activities

next I hear a splash from the pool 

and spy her sitting on the edge freezing her toes off

now I know it is getting warm 

but Sinus had to brush small ice bergs out of the way to get to the lobster/ grasshopper

but she is in swimmers braving the pool

so like the good, supportive and nurturing parent that I am

I bet her $50 that she won't get in

not up to her knees in, but up to her shoulders in

keep in mind, the lobster/ grasshopper has sunk back to the bottom of the pool

and she hates bugs and critters

and she usually wraps herself in a blanket

after eating a bowl of ice cream in the middle of Summer

so I am figuring it is a safe bet

 but no...the little bugger did it...

up to her armpits

her skin was red raw and she was having trouble breathing

but I had to take the $50 out and put it in her badly shaking hand

the day pretty much got weirder from there in

there was the pouring out of a perfectly good drink when I was at the sink

because Sinus put his finger in it

still haven't got to the bottom of why he put his finger in her drink

but when asked if this was the case, he fessed up to it

don't think I want to know

plus the long conversation about the cut of chicken called a Maryland

not Merry Lambs as Phantom had previously thought

turns out she had been puzzled by this for some time

which bought up the fact that she thought it was a Ham Bag

so we stuff our car keys and wallets sundry items in a container of cured meat???

and this was until recently.... seriously

she was happy that both things made much more sense now

and duly declared the problem with English 

is that people don't pronounce their consonants properly

we were also tortured by endless rounds of Mario cart, Wii archery

and a scary, almost physical game of Wii bowling

that almost resulted in Sinus and Phantom braining each other

all of which was completed to a soundtrack of bad seventies and eighties Karaoke

because the people who live behind us were having a big party 

and had the music cranked to an ungodly volume

so the whole neighbourhood could enjoy their out of tune, drunken singing

all night.... yahoo for us

so it is a miracle I am functioning at all today

and found the brain power to sit and do some sketches

from a magazine I was reading while drinking my breakfast smoothie

I was going to so some painting

but I have again been called to break up round two of the Wii war

 that has erupted between my two beloveds

I sent the dog to adjudicate but Sinus thought he is favouring Phantom

and it seems my peace negotiation skills are required

Day 2 is shaping up to be not unlike Day 1

wish me luck....xx

linking up with Sunday Sketches

My last two posts can be found with these links

if the holidays continue like this they may be the last time I make sense

or get any work done...

A Broken Tale ....

Beet That ...