She sighed as she was woken by the kids again. It was meant to be her day off, a lay in and rest as her husband looked after the kids and house. But it was the fourth time the little darlings had been in and woken her. Shaking her head she dealt with the latest end of the world event, which could easily have been dealt with their father.
Groaning she dragged herself out of bed and headed to the shower. Hoping for a few more minutes of peace. But once again that was far too much to ask for. The yelps of "mummy, mummy" sounding from outside the door. "What is it now?" She called, frankly getting a bit pissed off. "He keeps copying me" they both say at ones, followed by grunts and groans from the teen as he opened his door sleepily. "Can't your Papa deal with this?" She asks exasperated. "He's on the laptop and didn't answer." is the expected reply.
She rinses her hair and reluctantly gets out, drying off and sorting the dirty laundry ready to take downstairs. "Some break," she thinks to herself. Heading to bedroom to dress she navigates the moaning kids, finally kicking them out the room so she can actually dress.
"Ok, lets go see if he's done anything yet downstairs" Opening the door, grabbing the laundry and heading down. Not even halfway before the calling for "mummy" begins again. At this point the husband finally takes notice and just yells at the kids to leave each other alone. As usual far too loud and aggressive sounding, so the kids are now scared, and one is crying. After comforting them she heads to the kitchen, where he is perched at the kitchen table working away on his game on the laptop, as usual.
"Morning," she says as she walks past, struggling to carry the basket. a mumbled "hi" her reply. She sets about putting the laundry on to wash, as he looks over and says, "I was gonna come up and grab that in a moment". Uh huh, sure he was. Clicking the washing machine on she moves to check the dishwasher and as expected it hasn't been emptied. So, ofc she starts to sort it and he once again looks over, "I will do that in a minute, just wanna finish this." She just looks at him in disbelief, of course he was just about to do it, just when she started on it.
"Don't worry, I'll do it." She sighs.
After that she cleans up the breakfast things the boys have left lying around. Thinking to herself "What a fantastic day off". Finally getting to make a coffee, turning to ask him if he wants one. Getting an answer after the third time she asks. By this point far to fed up to bother with breakfast, she takes her coffee to the living room. Instantly the cries come from the kids, "Can we play Minecraft together?" Groan, again she thinks. Sighing inside, "Yes ok, just give me a minute. Why didn't you ask Papa to play with you?" Knowing the answer before she even asked the question. "He was playing and didn't answer" my middle son replied. I look into the kitchen and speak to my youngest, "Go and ask him to play with us now."
They both go to the kitchen and ask him, "Papa, can you play with us in Minecraft?" He doesn't even look up from the screen, "Not now, I need to complete this."
They head back in looking despondent. "Ok, lets get this world loaded up then" she says, yet again about to spend hours playing with the kids all day. Sighing at his lack of interest or willingness to play with the kids.
After a little while he comes in and stands right in front of the television and starts asking all kinds of questions about the game. After asking him to move three times he finally does, muttering about "Only showing some interest".
Taking a break, she goes to make more coffee, again asking a few times if he wants one. Before getting a reluctant yes, thinking in her head, "I'm not gonna force you to have a freaking coffee."
As she gives it to him, she asks what the plan is for dinner, he replies with, "I dunno, a sandwich?" Three hungry sons and he wants to give then a sandwich for dinner. As she is about to leave, he grabs her around the waist, "Did you have a good lay in and rest?" She looks at him in disbelief, "Not really no. The kids were in and out the whole morning." He just looked at her surprised, like he hadn't even noticed.