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Thursday 16 August 2012

Mornings.

Yesterday, was another one of those mornings. Despite my utter dedication to my washing, and I kid you not, I recently made the washing machine smoke....admittedly rinsing yoga mats....one child couldn't find a shirt and another shorts. My husband's stress levels went up and names were called in the heat of the moment. Then suddenly the house was empty and I was left in the kitchen with messy hair, in my bathrobe doing the washing up and feeding the baby porridge. Then it was time for Bikram Yoga. Don't think this was a freak one off occurrence, this is EVERY weekday morning in our house.

Later.....while I was pegging out the washing my husband sent me a sms 'Does "my baby" and "my washerwoman" want to have lunch?'. My instant reaction was to work out what I could rustle together to feed him before he materialised in the kitchen. But no, he meant lunch as in where somebody else does the cooking.....and a glass of wine.

Conveniently, Flathead Fish Cafe is just around the corner.....so I rang ahead and booked the highchair. Because we needed it. This is "my baby":



They have a $21 two course lunch menu. I had the Thai fishcakes:


And a fish pie:


Did I mention that there was wine? It was all delicious in the way that food cooked by somebody else always is.

After lunch, and back at it, in between picking the boys up.....same school....one 2.30pm and the other 3.30pm, I went to the shop for groceries. I'm ashamed to admit that recently I have really started enjoying songs they dredge up and play at the shop....'If you like Pina Coladas, getting caught in the rain....' and then yesterday 'My baby takes the morning train.....'. While I was singing along emptying the basket (to my four year old's utter embarrassment) it took me right back to the very early 1980's and singing those very same lyrics into my hairbrush at boarding school.....at the age of about eleven. Who would have thought that those lyrics would one day echo my reality....except for the bit about the four children and all of that washing and cooking etc? Time doesn't really go slowly by. Oh, and we don't have commuter trains in Hobart. Maybe I need to ditch the bathrobe and find a turquoise pantsuit instead.


Rx

15 comments:

  1. We used to do something called "Health Hustles" in the morning at primary school as part of the fitness programmes. It was really like aerobics I guess. "Morning Train" was one of the songs we used to do them to.....

    That is one very special turquoise outfit.

    Glad you had such a nice lunch.

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    1. me too! I remember doing star jumps to "morning train". The other song I remember was "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown....baddest man in the whole damn town"

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    2. Glad I was able to bring this memory back for you ladies! Now I hope that you haven't been humming this song over the last day.......Rx

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    3. OMG, I remember Leroy Brown too!

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  2. Your husband is a sweetie! I like his solution to a stressed out morning! I might show this post to my Hubby as a subtle hint (although we aren't lucky enough to live near Flathead - and even if we did Hubby refuses to eat fish except on Good Friday).

    You and my Hubby would get along very well I think. He refuses to listen to music on the radio and doesn't want to buy any new music in the iTunes store. It has to be music before 1999 or he doesn't like it (generally). I can picture a 4 year old's look of horror at their mother embarrassing them at the supermarket! I love the thought of an embarrassed 4 year old! I wonder, who were they embarrassed around? What did they think people would think of them? Its so cute!

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    1. My poor 4 year old is used to being embarrassed by his mother, his whole stance changes as he slumps his shoulders and hangs his head......and he'll no doubt have these memories forever and berate me in years to come about how I used to sing out loud in the supermarket! Poor little darling. Rx

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  3. Love a surprise lunch -it feels like such a treat. And I can relate to your morning. I didn't have my usual shower-before-children-get-up, and as a consequence it threw the whole morning out. I had to fish my daughter's ELC uniform out of the dirty laundry basket to wear today. Bad mother!

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    1. I live for going out to lunch....it makes everything right with the world! And it seems so decadent as it's in the middle of the day. I too have been guilty of fishing much needed apparel out out the dirty clothes basket.......Rx

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  4. I LOVE it when I go to lunch with Mr FF and the baby! I like that Pina Colada song too.

    I love you Romy x

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    1. I love going out to lunch, the Pina Colada song and you too FF! We should go on a date! Rx

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    2. Liking the sound of this one, Romy. Time to start plotting to get you down here, FF! J x

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  5. The comments have me laughing as much as the post!!! My kids won't let me sing in public either. xx

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  6. That sounds like such a prefect daytime escape. We must lunch there. With wine. Soon. J x

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