Children are a [loveable] time-suck
Mar. 18th, 2007 03:56 pmOkay, so babysitting my nephew (picture a 4 year old cherub with a mohawk) is not conducive to writing. I wanted to get the rest of Dinner Party up and finish my ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spring_with_xan entry, but instead I've spent the last two days chasing him away from the fish tank and negotiating peace treaties between him and my eight year old son. I have no idea how people with multiple children deal with them. My mother had four children before she was 22, which makes me cock my head and go "How?!" in baffled wonder. And now my nephew is teasing the parrot, so I have to go rescue him form getting his fingers bitten off and wish, selfishly, for some free time to write.
spring_with_xan entry, but instead I've spent the last two days chasing him away from the fish tank and negotiating peace treaties between him and my eight year old son. I have no idea how people with multiple children deal with them. My mother had four children before she was 22, which makes me cock my head and go "How?!" in baffled wonder. And now my nephew is teasing the parrot, so I have to go rescue him form getting his fingers bitten off and wish, selfishly, for some free time to write.