Easter holidays - what an oxymoron. Yes to Easter, but absolutely NO! to holiday. At least, not in a household containing teenagers. Note - that containment is fairly elastic at times. Times when they need to break-out - using the get-out-of-jail-(fairly, bar the petrol)-free card to visit girlfriend and girlfriend's kind parents who provide copious quantities of food for starving teenager, previously nourished only by a diet of German and Music revision.
Having one stressed teenager is bad enough. Stir in a second teenager, opposite sex, opposite hormones, opposite views on most things, also revising for public exams; Littlest being driven by pocket money bribery to play the piano for at least 10 minutes every day; parents who have to work to pay the bills; the odd bit of major surgery; Four-legged-friend with a thorn in his foot; a house that refuses to clean and tidy itself; weeds that think the neglected garden belongs to them; ditto an explosion of spring bunnies and the holiday part of Easter Holidays begins to look like a rather sick joke.
Until Jamie Oliver saves the day. Chocolate and raspberry brownies - heavenly scent wafting peace throughout the house. Smiles.
Note to self - make more tomorrow. Or truthfully, persuade daughter to make more tomorrow. And the next day. And the next ...
Having one stressed teenager is bad enough. Stir in a second teenager, opposite sex, opposite hormones, opposite views on most things, also revising for public exams; Littlest being driven by pocket money bribery to play the piano for at least 10 minutes every day; parents who have to work to pay the bills; the odd bit of major surgery; Four-legged-friend with a thorn in his foot; a house that refuses to clean and tidy itself; weeds that think the neglected garden belongs to them; ditto an explosion of spring bunnies and the holiday part of Easter Holidays begins to look like a rather sick joke.
Until Jamie Oliver saves the day. Chocolate and raspberry brownies - heavenly scent wafting peace throughout the house. Smiles.
Note to self - make more tomorrow. Or truthfully, persuade daughter to make more tomorrow. And the next day. And the next ...
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