Myself or the house
Jan. 30th, 2023 06:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitewriter Kiddo is actually sleeping in her cot for the last part of the night.
It was 6am and I took a gamble and tried to transfer her and it worked!
You don't know what a gamble that is. I reckon the odds are approx 80/20. with 20% success and 80% shrivling mess and certainty that now you can't leave the bedroom for the next hour. Regardless of if you want to sleep or not and I had no glasses or phone at the bedside for entertainment.
Finish the laundry or write in here. That was my two choices for this delicious hour.
I picked half and half - did some dishes and another layer of Wendy's b-day Pinyata.
Then Pete tells me the car windows were down again and it's been raining all night.
Whomever decided on designing the vw that double click meant ALL WINDOWS DOWN needs to be shot. Serves me right for thinking "oh It's probably not locked let me press it again".
Gastro cake tastes delicious, it's a shame I can't serve it.
I've been designing the finished product in my head and deciding that the only way I'm going to get the cake to look nice with a nakid side view is with dowels (cheating basically) Because simply I don't think the fake cream cheese frosting from betty crocker will uphold the weight of 2 or even 3 layers of dense carrot cake made with 280g of almonds and 280g of carrot.
Not for an appealing side view of nakid construction. Another way would be to put something like candy inbetween the layers but that's not gonna be a proven method of keeping the cake up.
Decisions.
Probably go with the dowels.
This is the slowest constructed cake ever. First I bake it, then got sick, start rebaking it - It's been another 2 weeks since and I'm on the 2nd layer. Yesterday I grated the carrots the previous Friday I mixed the dry ingredients into a bag (Essentially making a home made cake in a box) and pounded 280g of almonds.
I made a mini Kegal cake topper.
He's pretty small. and cute in that ugly sort of way. I have so much time I'm thinking of remaking him. Well. I think I have time. I'm going to work this week.
Mat leave is over.
Technically it was over since I started going down to Blacktown but it being a casual job I could just cancel whenever, the feeling wasn't the same as going to somewhere there's a roster and you feel more obligated to attend.
Sucks being a hoarder.
On the other hand, it means I've still got dowels for Wendy's cake that stems back from when I made my first wedding cake in 2012.
In essence I'm here to bitch about how good things are.
One thing I've been frought with thinking about is the whole childcare situation.
I was leaving Wendy at the gaurdian I'd booked when she was 3 mo old in a bit of a frenzied rush, which I then was on the fence about delaying at Christmas but before I knew it Janurary was here and overall, I wasn't ready, Wendy was fine - sure tears at drop off and pick up, but otherwise fine. And with my mum in my ear about "there's no love in that place" (i disagree, your not going to childcare for love, you go there for school. Like at school your teacher doesn't need to love you. It does help though, if the student loves the teacher)
But as I digress- essentially the child does need to bond with the carers there. That's the essence of it. and We'd tried for a few days over 2 weeks (I reckon more days the better, actually) - got gastro - and in the throws of gastro I was severely regretting sending her to childcare so early, especially since my mother is begging me to have her - but also, with the whole big fuss being made about her birthday the number one reason she'd be sick on it would be : you guessed it - childcare - and so what, I'll just pay not to take her, just so she won't be sick?
This does go quite strongly against my ideas of paying for something and then not using it.
Then Shirley gets in my ear and said her friend with a newborn said (this is where all parental information comes from, really. That and google but honestly google doesn't just tell it to you straight) that there's no benefit sending a child this early -
Dr google says 16 mo. is the ideal time - but really, it's 3 years.
When you read things like "help your child settle into daycare by telling them you'll be back after xyz meal as they can't tell time yet" well. Wendy can't really tell meals yet either.
Like I go on about Brekky and lunch and dinner and try to be specific about each thing I'm giving her -- I hope she sees a pattern there but childcare also adds in morning tea and afternoon tea and so many meals that I honestly don't bother with.
Anyways.
Overall - I think she's too young.
That and her water bottle kept coming home in pristine condition which meant she's not being given it - and she can't ask for it - and another mother said they serve water in cups.
Cups?! You have 6+ kids to give lunch to, and this one needs full assistance with the cup.
Come on.
She's too young then. I also suspect she's being given puree all the time too because they're not sure she can do finger foods or she's not performing as well as she does at home regarding finger foods.
To be fair, my mum still gives her puree mostly but thats due to the reduced mess when spoon feeding a child v. letting them eat by themselves.
At least childcare tries to make her use a spoon on her own.
So now it's on me to both progress her with a spoon and also allow her to explore finger foods.
I told my mum if you want her to be good at piano, it starts now. She's practicing picking things up with her hands - and that translates to future piano success.
I don't know how much mother is buying it but considering I was clearly spoonfed and my piano sucked arse maybe she sees something in that. Maybe not.
So I gotta put effort to socialise the little bugger, since we ain't doing childcare just yet.
In my head I'm counting the dollars saved and hopefully the reduced amount of sick leave I'll be taking -- and hoping the dollars saved translates to a nice holiday in Japan in October.
That reminds me that I need to book leave for said holiday.
Ok booked.
It was 6am and I took a gamble and tried to transfer her and it worked!
You don't know what a gamble that is. I reckon the odds are approx 80/20. with 20% success and 80% shrivling mess and certainty that now you can't leave the bedroom for the next hour. Regardless of if you want to sleep or not and I had no glasses or phone at the bedside for entertainment.
Finish the laundry or write in here. That was my two choices for this delicious hour.
I picked half and half - did some dishes and another layer of Wendy's b-day Pinyata.
Then Pete tells me the car windows were down again and it's been raining all night.
Whomever decided on designing the vw that double click meant ALL WINDOWS DOWN needs to be shot. Serves me right for thinking "oh It's probably not locked let me press it again".
Gastro cake tastes delicious, it's a shame I can't serve it.
I've been designing the finished product in my head and deciding that the only way I'm going to get the cake to look nice with a nakid side view is with dowels (cheating basically) Because simply I don't think the fake cream cheese frosting from betty crocker will uphold the weight of 2 or even 3 layers of dense carrot cake made with 280g of almonds and 280g of carrot.
Not for an appealing side view of nakid construction. Another way would be to put something like candy inbetween the layers but that's not gonna be a proven method of keeping the cake up.
Decisions.
Probably go with the dowels.
This is the slowest constructed cake ever. First I bake it, then got sick, start rebaking it - It's been another 2 weeks since and I'm on the 2nd layer. Yesterday I grated the carrots the previous Friday I mixed the dry ingredients into a bag (Essentially making a home made cake in a box) and pounded 280g of almonds.
I made a mini Kegal cake topper.
He's pretty small. and cute in that ugly sort of way. I have so much time I'm thinking of remaking him. Well. I think I have time. I'm going to work this week.
Mat leave is over.
Technically it was over since I started going down to Blacktown but it being a casual job I could just cancel whenever, the feeling wasn't the same as going to somewhere there's a roster and you feel more obligated to attend.
Sucks being a hoarder.
On the other hand, it means I've still got dowels for Wendy's cake that stems back from when I made my first wedding cake in 2012.
In essence I'm here to bitch about how good things are.
One thing I've been frought with thinking about is the whole childcare situation.
I was leaving Wendy at the gaurdian I'd booked when she was 3 mo old in a bit of a frenzied rush, which I then was on the fence about delaying at Christmas but before I knew it Janurary was here and overall, I wasn't ready, Wendy was fine - sure tears at drop off and pick up, but otherwise fine. And with my mum in my ear about "there's no love in that place" (i disagree, your not going to childcare for love, you go there for school. Like at school your teacher doesn't need to love you. It does help though, if the student loves the teacher)
But as I digress- essentially the child does need to bond with the carers there. That's the essence of it. and We'd tried for a few days over 2 weeks (I reckon more days the better, actually) - got gastro - and in the throws of gastro I was severely regretting sending her to childcare so early, especially since my mother is begging me to have her - but also, with the whole big fuss being made about her birthday the number one reason she'd be sick on it would be : you guessed it - childcare - and so what, I'll just pay not to take her, just so she won't be sick?
This does go quite strongly against my ideas of paying for something and then not using it.
Then Shirley gets in my ear and said her friend with a newborn said (this is where all parental information comes from, really. That and google but honestly google doesn't just tell it to you straight) that there's no benefit sending a child this early -
Dr google says 16 mo. is the ideal time - but really, it's 3 years.
When you read things like "help your child settle into daycare by telling them you'll be back after xyz meal as they can't tell time yet" well. Wendy can't really tell meals yet either.
Like I go on about Brekky and lunch and dinner and try to be specific about each thing I'm giving her -- I hope she sees a pattern there but childcare also adds in morning tea and afternoon tea and so many meals that I honestly don't bother with.
Anyways.
Overall - I think she's too young.
That and her water bottle kept coming home in pristine condition which meant she's not being given it - and she can't ask for it - and another mother said they serve water in cups.
Cups?! You have 6+ kids to give lunch to, and this one needs full assistance with the cup.
Come on.
She's too young then. I also suspect she's being given puree all the time too because they're not sure she can do finger foods or she's not performing as well as she does at home regarding finger foods.
To be fair, my mum still gives her puree mostly but thats due to the reduced mess when spoon feeding a child v. letting them eat by themselves.
At least childcare tries to make her use a spoon on her own.
So now it's on me to both progress her with a spoon and also allow her to explore finger foods.
I told my mum if you want her to be good at piano, it starts now. She's practicing picking things up with her hands - and that translates to future piano success.
I don't know how much mother is buying it but considering I was clearly spoonfed and my piano sucked arse maybe she sees something in that. Maybe not.
So I gotta put effort to socialise the little bugger, since we ain't doing childcare just yet.
In my head I'm counting the dollars saved and hopefully the reduced amount of sick leave I'll be taking -- and hoping the dollars saved translates to a nice holiday in Japan in October.
That reminds me that I need to book leave for said holiday.
Ok booked.
