supervising from the couch: G'day mates.

Friday, January 22, 2010

G'day mates.

I spent the morning at school helping at the boomerang decorating station for 1st grade Australia Day. I need to go dig out my photos from my trip to Australia to show Ellie. I will NOT be posting them here because the only things worse than scary 1980's high school photos are scary 1980's junior high photos.

3 comments:

Melissa said...: Oh come on. I totally want to see those photos!; January 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Julie said...: Melissa just stole my comment!! haha - seriously Michelle - your fellow blog friends are waiting :-).; January 22, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Jodi said...: I might be able to find some of those photos in my mom's archives...; January 22, 2010 at 10:31 PM

here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.