A trip to the Museum and a Screw Up

Yesterday (Monday) the girls and I went to the Melbourne Museum with my good friend S. Her partner J had to work which is a shame as we had lots of fun and I missed J being around to laugh with me at the antics of S and the children.

Particularly amusing to me was the horrified reaction of S and Annie to the conception and birth movie. I pulled them out as the baby’s head was emerging. Both had such similar expressions of horror and disgust it kept me giggling for the rest of the day.

Heidi loved the museum and I loved seeing what interested her. We all had fun in the childrens area, Annie latched onto a primary school group and I think would have happily stayed with them for the rest of their tour (if the teacher had let her).

We visited the display on the human mind and all had fun playing with the interactive displays that mess with your sense of perception.  One interactive display showed what your level of alertness was – calm, alert, watchful, worried, stressed.  You put your hand on a metal plate and it played a sound and a graph charted your response to the sounds.  I started of at ‘watchful’ and remained there the whole time, in a constant steady state of watchfulness no matter what sounds popped out.  Thats the way life is when you are out and about with two pre-schoolers.  S remained in a steady state of ‘alert’.  Annie started off as ‘alert’ but when the sound popped out the graph skyrocketed to ’stressed’, then down again.  Interesting stuff.

Both girls were wearing their “Who Am I look inside” tags which was greatly reassuring as Annie had a tendency to wander off out of sight.

Annie wandering off – yet again

I also took the pram which gave Heidi a place to hide when everything got a bit too much and she used her new chewy necklace a couple of times. Which reminds me I must post about her new sensory diet at some point.

All in all a great way to spend the day.

Now my screwup.

Screw Up Tuesday is the brainchild of Bettina. Once a week we can confess our screw ups, good for the soul right .

I ordered my groceries through Coles Online last week and got them delivered. This was fantastic, no impulse purchasing, no major dramas taking the girls grocery shopping. All smooth sailing… that is until I realised I’d not purchased anything for my lunches. I remembered to get stuff to make lunch for hubby. I remembered to get stuff for the girls to eat for lunch. But nothing for me and I’m not a great fan of vegemite sandwiches .

I also neglected to purchase any convenience meals for days when I’ve just had too much. So we ended up getting McDonalds for dinner last night. 12 days of no-takeout. A record for us. Ah well. Now I just have to try and beat that record.

Quick health update. Monday 30th June I will be going into hospital for the day to have some further tests done for my Crohns. Wooo. So much fun. Not. I need to have an MRI and am waiting on the hospital to call back and tell me when that will be. Very likely things will go quiet for a few days around here over this weekend and the beginning of next week.