. . . well I managed to have 'one' of them in style today!!Swimming this morning - great, Alice did wonderfully for most of the lesson but lost it a little in the last 10 minutes. Good progress and mostly fun. The instructor commented on her progress and complemented me on persevering for so long - it's been worth it.
Then back via U - for a quick update with the Health Visitor and to collect pills for Daisy's arthritis.
Successful lunch - Alice ate baked beans again - having refused them several times recently. Usually Alice eats at 12.30pm ish and then I eat after she's gone to bed for her nap - I'm trying to eat with her and have a family meal, I'm also hoping that this will encourage her to feed herself.
Then it all started to unravel . . . I took a phone call from BT during her naptime - they seemed to be offering me a deal that's too good to be true . . . the poor salesman had to explain the deal 3 times . . . I signed up, eventually . . . but I'm still not convinced that there's a catch in it somewhere!
Alice got up . . . she's always slow to wake in the afternoon (I think it's probably as I usually have to wake her) . . . she sits and watches TV for a while whilst she 'comes to' . . . whilst I was on the phone (paying bills) she let herself into the garden . . . I encouraged her to play in the water . . . happy girl, no problems . . . then the doorbell rang . . . our SW . . . a week early!!
Actually she wasn't a week early - I was a week confused! So began our 12 month post placement report meeting. SW has to write a report on Alice's health, development, progress and character - all fine, but I was unprepared and hadn't gathered my facts (as I thought she was coming next week!) We also talked about Little Sis - I'm still not sure where she'll come from and am as confused as ever, oh well, more thinking time needed!
Edited to add:
The girls at Mimosa obviously know exactly how I feel - their post today echoes mine, while typing a response I remembered another element of the day:
I rang the phone banking service to pay a bill . . . they couldn't trace it . . . set up a new payment and then I realised that it's one of the ones I pay by DD!
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2 comments:
Oh I have A LOT of "those days"!!! Too many! :-)
Kate,
Alice is growing so beautifully! It is so lovely to follow her development and watch how she's growing into a toddler!
These are milestones that are so important to capture, which you do so well on this blog. Princess AGX is swifly becoming a 'little girl' and it is astonishing to watch her development before my very eyes. She is at a sweet stage where she's making up songs, stories and dancing through her days. I look forward to you experiencing the same with Alice.
And yes, I've shared my 'mummy brain' stuff on Mimosa as well! I am going out Friday evening with friends, and have asked one of them to phone me in the early evening to 'remind me'! Because I know that I'll be thinking about it all day, but will unexplainably forget to show up by the time evening rolls around. I know just what you mean about confusing the DD issue! What drives me nuts, though, is that I forget important things, but cannot, for the life of me, erase those dang nursery rhyme songs from my head!
Lots of love to you both,
Ellen xxx
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