Fun picture

Lewis has been messing around with pictures on his Iphone, I quite like this one so I thought I'd share it with you.  I will try and put up some snow pictures soon along with the photos Jessi took of the children tonight.  Despite the snowy weather both Wootton and New Holland schools have been open today.  Nathan is still off school with slapped cheek virus, but I think we will try and get him back tomorrow.  

It's a big week this week for me.  Not only will I turn 30 on Sunday, but I will also find out if I get my promotion this week to, so fingers crossed all will go well.  I'm also super nervous about my party next week, I've been planning it so long that it's a bit strange to think it is less than two weeks away!

Dithering...

Well I went to see the Head teacher at Caitlin and Esaias's school and after a fifteen minute conversation I am now undecided again...aaaaarrrrgghhhh!!!!!!!  I'm driving myself mad!
Caitlin and Nathan are poorly at the moment poor little things.  They are both full of cold.  Esaias got very upset this morning because he had to go to school on his own, bless him!  Not a lot else going on here thank goodness other than my preparations for mine and Nathan's parties.

A day at the sea side

 

Lewis went to Cleethorpes on Saturday with his kite and buggy, so after a couple of hours Mum took us to join him along with Dash.  Nathan dived right in the sea despite the cold and made us all shiver just looking at him!

A new tactic

It has become clear to me that sometimes it is good to talk things with your children and sometimes you just have to pull rank and say something along the lines of "Because I said so." but obviously in a nicer way.  It really goes against my way of thinking but sometimes children aren't capable of understanding the full picture and we as parents need to make a decision that is in their best interest.
So looking at the bigger picture and trusting my maternal instinct I think I have decided to move the children to a different school.  There are a number of reasons behind this ranging from Nathan's vast improvement in his speech, the happier environment at the other school and the financial pressure coming from their existing school.  I don't like the thought of uprooting the children but they all seem ok with this decision.  The main difference is Esaias who was quite distraught when we discussed moving them to a different school last time, but this time I went in with a different tact...I told him he was moving and then asked him if he had any concerns.  He told me what worried him and we talked through it, by the end of a very brief conversation he was happy.
It's not set in stone as yet, but I really think it is for the best.

Theo

This is Theo, my newest cousin.  He is a couple of months old now, but I really wanted to share this picture his mum took because it is just brilliant.  Please note the sign which was written by Theo's older brother Oli who is 7 (he is exactly a month older than Caitlin).  It reads roughly, "In bad mood...noisy..do not take dummy out...screaming."  I really laughed when I saw this picture, I hope it makes you chuckle to :)

Counting my blessings

Well here I am moaning again!  I didn't get much sleep last night as my chest really, really hurt!  At 1am I ended up going downstairs and watching TV until I nodded off on the sofa , only to be woken up by Esaias at 4:45am who charged into the living room and turned the light on!  Sneeky little monkey was trying to get some early morning Wii time...I sent him back to bed!  Lewis went off to work on the train, but when I tried to start the car to take the children to school it wouldn't start...aaaaaarrgghhhh!
Luckily Grandad came to the rescue and let us use his car.  I also got Aiden on the job to try and fix the car, (he is such a superstar!) It's still not working but we have a mechanic friend of Aiden's coming to have a look at it tomorrow.  Fingers crossed it will work.  We are really stuck without our car and it's a real worry to not have it working.
I struggled all morning with the pain in my chest but after I was left in agony after picking up my handbag off the floor I decided to book in with the my GP.  After hearing my symptoms though the GP advised me to go straight to hospital and get an ECG.  Poor Lewis had to come home from work and we pulled the children out of school to be looked after by Aiden and Auntie Sue as we didn't know how long we would be.
It was a definite contrast to my last trip to A+E!  As soon as I mentioned "chest pains" I was whisked through and wired up to an ECG, had blood taken as well as the usual observations.  Thankfully my heart is all ticketyboo so they sent me for an X-Ray.  Apparently there was a "patch" on my lungs and the final verdict was that I have a severe chest infection, which I find odd because although I've had a bit of a cough I felt fine aside from the chest pain.  Any how, I have some awesome pain killers which make feel all sleepy and most importantly alleviate the pain.  I also have some anti-biotics which look like they are made for baby elephants!!!
All in all not the greatest day ever, but through it all I felt so blessed to have such an amazing family.  All I had to do was pick up the phone and they all pitched in to help.  I feel so indebted to my family including Lewis and my children.  My health is not great right now and they have all supported me.  I hope that one day I get to repay them.
Got to go the pain killers are kicking in...yawn!