There are some days when I have no motivation at all and the girls behave like horrors and I get very shouty and fed up and dispairing.  Someone said to me, in response to me moaning about these sorts of days: “do they make you rethink your plans to HE?”.  The answer is ‘no’.  It’s not the school-aged child who makes me shout - it’s the toddler!  Toddlers are so hard work.  I just had to stop myself smacking Mopsy for throwing a large brick at Cotton-tail :-(  I said I wanted to give her away to someone else and Flopsy leapt to her defence :-)  Just spoken to Dh.  Flopsy wanted a pyjama day today, but I think that might be the root of the lack of motivation.  Dh suggested getting into bed and starting over again, and, as I can hear Mopsy has yet again expressed her frustration by hurting Cotton-tail in one way or another, I think it’s a very good idea and I’m off to do it right now.