Well I am aware that I haven’t really been keeping up with my blog lately. I guess it gets to a point where I’ve said a lot of the things I wanted to say, I’ve covered the shopping nightmares, the school run, the camping trips. And as any of you who have read my past posts will know, my life is an endless cycle of cleaning, tidying, cooking, washing, shopping, school runs, so after a while it’s all just going round again & I have nothing new or exciting to tell you. H & G have also gone down to only two mornings at playgroup this term instead of three (my own fault, should have booked more earlier – I borrowed someone else’s places before Easter, but playgroup had children starting after Easter that had already got the places) so the upshot is, I have even less child free time into which I need to cram a million things & getting round to writing often gets bumped off the bottom of the list.
Well, we have just about recovered from an accident and illness filled weekend. It all started on Friday night with a barn dance at school. It was quite amusing watching all the kids (mainly instigated by Abbie) doing their hair and putting on their make-up (they may need some tips with that in the future...I’m not sure quite what look they were trying to create with the thick blue lines under their eyes ...well top of their cheeks and across their eyelids– it was an interesting look) I was getting flashes of the future and four teenagers getting ready for a night on the town – gulp!!
At the barn dance Georgia fell and jarred her arm. When, in the morning, she still wouldn’t use it, I took her to A&E to get it checked (before anyone says anything – I am WELL aware of the number of times we have needed to go to A&E, please stop counting!!) Well it turns out that she had a mild dislocation of her elbow. They popped it back into place & she was as good as new!! Apparently, it’s an injury that is common in children under the age of 4, but that didn’t help me to feel any better about the fact that it was my hand she was holding when she fell over and did it – note to self – next time she falls – LET GO! Don’t try to hang onto her!
Then the sickness started. Millie was sick first on Saturday morning, then Hannah on Saturday lunch time, Rob by Saturday afternoon, me Saturday night & Abbie on Sunday. So we spent the weekend lying on sofa, holding buckets, feeling sorry for ourselves, in various stages of the dreaded bug! Georgia was the only one who didn’t get sick, but then she had done the whole elbow thing, so it wasn’t as though she got off scot free!!
Before I go, I must just share with you my dizzy mother moment from the day!! Having been to Tesco to do the shopping, I pulled up on the drive, only to realise that all the shopping was still in the trolley, at Tesco, next to the car parking space that I’d been in. My heart sank, as I imagined trying to explain to Rob how I had manage to lose £75 worth of shopping! In my defence, as we reached the car, Hannah had fallen over and was requiring a great deal of care and attention and Georgia was having one of those sort of tantrums where you have to wrestle the child into their seat – but still....to drive away and leave a trolley full of shopping...the very stuff you went to Tesco for...DUH!! Thankfully, some kind person had taken it back into the store and we were able to rush back up to Tesco & collect the prize for being a total airhead!! xx
Well, we have just about recovered from an accident and illness filled weekend. It all started on Friday night with a barn dance at school. It was quite amusing watching all the kids (mainly instigated by Abbie) doing their hair and putting on their make-up (they may need some tips with that in the future...I’m not sure quite what look they were trying to create with the thick blue lines under their eyes ...well top of their cheeks and across their eyelids– it was an interesting look) I was getting flashes of the future and four teenagers getting ready for a night on the town – gulp!!
At the barn dance Georgia fell and jarred her arm. When, in the morning, she still wouldn’t use it, I took her to A&E to get it checked (before anyone says anything – I am WELL aware of the number of times we have needed to go to A&E, please stop counting!!) Well it turns out that she had a mild dislocation of her elbow. They popped it back into place & she was as good as new!! Apparently, it’s an injury that is common in children under the age of 4, but that didn’t help me to feel any better about the fact that it was my hand she was holding when she fell over and did it – note to self – next time she falls – LET GO! Don’t try to hang onto her!
Then the sickness started. Millie was sick first on Saturday morning, then Hannah on Saturday lunch time, Rob by Saturday afternoon, me Saturday night & Abbie on Sunday. So we spent the weekend lying on sofa, holding buckets, feeling sorry for ourselves, in various stages of the dreaded bug! Georgia was the only one who didn’t get sick, but then she had done the whole elbow thing, so it wasn’t as though she got off scot free!!
Before I go, I must just share with you my dizzy mother moment from the day!! Having been to Tesco to do the shopping, I pulled up on the drive, only to realise that all the shopping was still in the trolley, at Tesco, next to the car parking space that I’d been in. My heart sank, as I imagined trying to explain to Rob how I had manage to lose £75 worth of shopping! In my defence, as we reached the car, Hannah had fallen over and was requiring a great deal of care and attention and Georgia was having one of those sort of tantrums where you have to wrestle the child into their seat – but still....to drive away and leave a trolley full of shopping...the very stuff you went to Tesco for...DUH!! Thankfully, some kind person had taken it back into the store and we were able to rush back up to Tesco & collect the prize for being a total airhead!! xx
