Susie's Leaning Tower of Chocolate for 2014 March 14

Permalink [Comments] (1) Fri Mar 14 2014 12:07 Divide and Conquer:

John worked from home yesterday and was kind enough to take the kids to gymnastics. I had an hour and a half alone with Beep to do whatever I wanted! And I didn't have to chase her around the gymnastics place. Bonus. I got dinner ready and made peanut butter Rice Krispie treats. Then I cleaned up the mess Sienna made while I was doing that. Then we snuggled and played and read.

As soon as the kids walked in the door, they started fighting (John clarifies that they were fighting in the car). So, after dinner John took Dalton and Sienna to the park while I supervised Maggie's chores, piano practice, and homework. Once she finished all that, we ran over to the park, but Dalton was getting cold and wanted to go home. John took the little two home for baths and I stayed for a while so Maggie could play.

When we got home, I put Sienna in bed, John read Harry Potter to the kids and miraculously, there was no more fighting. Dalton even went to bed well, something we often struggle with. We made a deal that he can either go to bed, or have no treats the following day. It's worked for three nights in a row now. Maggie stayed up and read aloud on the couch while I exercised and John got some time to himself.

I guess sometimes the 19 hours of separation of sleep and school is not enough for those two.

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Comments:

Posted by Rie at Thu Mar 20 2014 19:59

She's an A-List actress and is hnudoed by the paparazzi in London. She is known in her personal life for dating Jude Law after he divorced his wife, and having him cheat on her with the nanny. The cheating and everything came out in public because of the phone hacking going on with the British tabloid press. Her phone was hacked and her private life was put out in the public eye as a result. She is one of a handful of celebrities who fought hard to get a court ruling against the tabloids for their phone hacking and won a settlement. That battle has been going on for a good eight years. That's what she's talking about and seriously, she put a lot of time and effort into that battle. Her point is that she fought hard for her privacy and isn't going to start talking about the details of her personal life, pregnancy, etc. after fighting so hard to get some sort of private life. Confirming she's in her second trimester by saying she's in the she can talk about it stage isn't giving away details of her private life, it's acknowledging the visible and obvious pregnancy and simply saying she's past 3 months so that's when people feel they can confirm. She didn't say anything beyond that so she is not revealing anything about her private life.

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