My miracle girl is 3 today! Have a wonderful day Hannah, I love you so much!
Lots of love and kisses from Mummy xxxxxxx
My Girls
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Happy Birthday Caitlin!
My big girl is 5 years old today! I am so proud of her.
Have a wonderful day sweetheart, I love you so much, love and kisses from Mummy xxxxxxxxxx
Have a wonderful day sweetheart, I love you so much, love and kisses from Mummy xxxxxxxxxx
Saturday, August 04, 2007
The usual ups and downs
Two weeks in and we are surviving the summer holiday and I am still sane (although of course everything is relative!)
We have mostly been chilling out doing things at home, because the next three weeks are going to be hectic. Puzzles have been very popular and Hannah has a new addiction for sew and lace cards. We had a lovely day at my friend Rachel's house on Tuesday. She invited us and some other friends over for the day. The kids played together beautifully (mainly!) and we relaxed in glorious sunshine in the garden.
The girls have made their own 'gardens' in planters which was a particularly messy experience. Each garden has a pond, a path, and some wierd totem pole things they made out of lolly sticks. Oh, and a few plants! As we have finally had a glimmer of summer like weather this week I decided to turn the sand pit into a paddling pool. There were a couple of good reasons for this; we have no sand, and it took about a thousandth of the time it would have taken to clean, inflate and fill the actual paddling pool.
I have been asked to speak at this year's CLDF conference about caring for a child with chronic liver disease! I feel very nervous about this and really hope I can do a good job. The conference is in 2 months so there is plenty of time to be terrified....sorry, I mean to prepare.
I have been doing the happy nappy dance for the last couple of weeks! Five years ago I was a week away from becoming a mum. I really do not want to think about how many hours of my life since then have been devoted to nappies. At last, there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are nappy free during the day! I feel like a new woman!
There is so much going on during the next few weeks that my head is spinning. This week we have William's birthday on Monday, then I need to get organised and get Caitlin some presents before Saturday! Then there is the girl's party on the 17th, Hugs and Hope day on the 19th, Hannah's bloods at Birmingham on the 21st, Hannah's endoscopy on the 22nd, Ethan's party on the 25th, and Hannah's birthday on the 26th. I can see the rest of the 'holiday' disappearing very rapidly.
I've been feeling quite down the last couple of days. I am scared about Hannah's endoscopy although I am trying not to be, and I just have an overwhelming desire to talk things through with Mum. I remember how when Hannah was ill as a baby I would be ringing her from the hospital every couple of hours. She was like my anchor. There are so many good and bad things that I just need to share with her and now I can't.
I am also missing a friend who I am used to sharing a lot of stuff with. She has a huge amount going on in her life at the moment and isn't around as much as I am used to. Thankfully it's just a temporary situation.
We have mostly been chilling out doing things at home, because the next three weeks are going to be hectic. Puzzles have been very popular and Hannah has a new addiction for sew and lace cards. We had a lovely day at my friend Rachel's house on Tuesday. She invited us and some other friends over for the day. The kids played together beautifully (mainly!) and we relaxed in glorious sunshine in the garden.
The girls have made their own 'gardens' in planters which was a particularly messy experience. Each garden has a pond, a path, and some wierd totem pole things they made out of lolly sticks. Oh, and a few plants! As we have finally had a glimmer of summer like weather this week I decided to turn the sand pit into a paddling pool. There were a couple of good reasons for this; we have no sand, and it took about a thousandth of the time it would have taken to clean, inflate and fill the actual paddling pool.
I have been asked to speak at this year's CLDF conference about caring for a child with chronic liver disease! I feel very nervous about this and really hope I can do a good job. The conference is in 2 months so there is plenty of time to be terrified....sorry, I mean to prepare.
I have been doing the happy nappy dance for the last couple of weeks! Five years ago I was a week away from becoming a mum. I really do not want to think about how many hours of my life since then have been devoted to nappies. At last, there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are nappy free during the day! I feel like a new woman!
There is so much going on during the next few weeks that my head is spinning. This week we have William's birthday on Monday, then I need to get organised and get Caitlin some presents before Saturday! Then there is the girl's party on the 17th, Hugs and Hope day on the 19th, Hannah's bloods at Birmingham on the 21st, Hannah's endoscopy on the 22nd, Ethan's party on the 25th, and Hannah's birthday on the 26th. I can see the rest of the 'holiday' disappearing very rapidly.
I've been feeling quite down the last couple of days. I am scared about Hannah's endoscopy although I am trying not to be, and I just have an overwhelming desire to talk things through with Mum. I remember how when Hannah was ill as a baby I would be ringing her from the hospital every couple of hours. She was like my anchor. There are so many good and bad things that I just need to share with her and now I can't.
I am also missing a friend who I am used to sharing a lot of stuff with. She has a huge amount going on in her life at the moment and isn't around as much as I am used to. Thankfully it's just a temporary situation.
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