how boring are we..and that strict too?
it’s 9.19pm and we are home for the evening.
actually, we just got home from our new years eve "party".
i can remember a time when i got home from new years eve parties at 9.19am the next morning. that was 15 years ago. a decade and a half! back when george clooney was on ER!
at 6pm we went down to chad and andreas for dinner. it is cold in hong kong right now, about 13 above, and of course no flats here have central heating. andrea had made dumplings and beef stew. "northern english food" she said, putting mashed potatoes on the plates.
her kids immediately tucked in.
my four shifted around, drank all the juice in their princess cups, pushed their spoons around their plates and generally were a PITA. if you don’t know that particular acronym, then accept they were unpleasant.
i decided it was a good idea for charles to reveal the ben and jerry’s ice cream he had brought for dessert, and this was enough to prompt my kids into putting a few mouthfuls into their pieholes. except for sebastian. he was poking adam, laughing, loud, and interrupting everyone. charles repeatedly asked sebastian to eat, and he chose not to. finally, charles issued a rather harsh ultimatum, "eat some dinner or you will have to go home." after one and two warnings and no action from my little blonde boy, charles apologised, and led wailing sebastian out of andrea and chad’s and into the lift, heading for home. goodnight sebastian. this is a consequence for your action.
poor sebastian.
everyone else finished what i considered enough of their meal, but it was still embarrassing. my kids are the last to finish when they try anything new. argh!
then it was time to watch shrek 2, and then high school musical, which predictably, jasper loved. adam and asheligh curled up on the sofa and watched happily, while the adults ate their stew and ice cream, and chatted away, watching the four youngest kids traipse into the playroom, where they started playing their newest favourite game, "mummy and daddy".
sela reappeared after a while, wearing a pair of ashleigh’s pajamas. then carys, similarly dressed. and of course jasper, wearing nothing but a shirt of adam’s and nothing else. think demi moore in ghost.
"we’re going to bed!" they announced, holding up soothers. "Here are our dummies!"
jasper did decide, like every perfect housewife that before he went to bed that he needed to give the floors a good hoover, and so he did. the girls meanwhile, were giggling and really being no bother to anyone. the kids were being great, but really, how long can it go on for? one last cup of tea. one warning that we were leaving in 10 minutes, and half an hour later, we started cleaning up. found jasper’s bobs and sela’s tights.
pushed the kids into the lift, and went home. they were in bed two minutes later, and are asleep now.
sebastian had a harsh punishment tonight. will it make a difference in his ways?
stay with us for another year and find out.
