Solo Parent Saturday: a mini pep talk

Of course this is the weather on the day I'm watching 4 kids with no car.  I am excited for the rest of the week, but YUCK to today.

I feel I need to write myself some pep talk on managing today.  It appears I rely on car based transport *a lot* when carting 4 kids around.  

Ideas to make today not awful:

• Taking the bus with the kids somewhere this morning.  Hopefully it will be dry enough to make it to the bus.  Maybe we will go to the Cardiff Museum which opens at 10am.  
• Getting out some of the giant box of second hand playmobil I got for the kids for Christmas.  Maybe they can have some of it now and some for Christmas
• Big kids can watch film over lunch/twin nap
• Encourage big kids to finish almost-done dot to dot books and also sticker dolly dressing books
• Get brio down from Ezras room and see if twins can play with trains yet without just throwing them

Things to do today to keep life moving:

• Wash kids white tops for school
• Make (&freeze) a lasagna for Andy's birthday next week (this is super aspirational *but* there isn't another time to make it before his birthday and I feel that making a lasagne is kind of a "happy 40th birthday" minimum)

Things that will make it better for me:

• Doing a 5 minute meditation?
• Eating a brownie (need to buy a brownie)?

I'm no expert here, but I think the total lack of anything in the last list is probably why I'm not so good at solo parenting days.

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Last Monday Ezra had a friend over after school and I managed to get this photo of things not looking chaos, but mostly things were chaos.  

I detest painting and I am not sure why I said yes because this fell apart soooo fast.

Lily has seen me prep for work enough apparently to paint her own eyebrows.

It's paint, not a black eye.