There is no simple way of putting this, but the damn fool Hubstacle has gone and lost his wedding ring.
It must be terrible for him and I know he is very cross with himself, but although I am outwardly saying it's ok, inwardly I am really upset. Yes I know, it's only a ring, but the thing is The Hubstacle never wears jewellery and he has worn his ring for 7 years. It symbolises our marriage, we went to Windsor to choose them, spent a lovely weekend there drinking wine, eating good food and pottering about in a little independent jewellers.
It was an exciting time and those rings travelled all the way to Barbados with us, sat nestled in their little boxes until we married and they were transplanted on to our fingers. I don't think I have ever taken mine off.
Poor man, I know how I would be if I lost mine and there is no sense being funny with him because it was genuinely an accident and I would imagine it is some pigs stomach by now. The Hubstacle says that he can't remember the last time he saw it either. At first I was appalled, but then I realised that when something becomes familiar you assume it stays where it is.
It's not the cost of it, but the sentimentality, the journey it has taken with us it represents something more than just meaning we are married. Someone told me that their husband lost his down the back of the sofa and they never recovered it, that was 7 years ago and they are still married, so at least I know my marriage is not going to fall down around my ears.....
Well unless it has become too familiar and I assume it stays where it is......
Sunday 16 January 2011
Thursday 13 January 2011
Swine of a Flu
Perhaps, possibly you may have noticed my lack of blogging over the past week. Considering I have pretty much popped in to say hello and bore you all rigid with something every day, I would forgive you for thinking I have lost the novelty factor.
Ha! Well you are wrong! My absence has not been anything exciting like a holiday or winning the lottery, but the bloomin' flu.
Last Saturday Aardvark began running a temperature and became very lethargic. She ended up peaking at 40 degrees and we had to strip her off and cool her down. She developed a cough and was very unwell indeed, this continued all over the weekend. So it was a round of getting fluids in her, making sure she was weeing and shovelling calpol down her.
I then began to feel unwell and by the time The Hubstacle had telephoned the nursery on Monday morning, I was down and out. The head said that 7 other pupils had been off with the same symptoms and there had been one confirmed swine flu. She told us this, not to panic us, but so we could better judge Aardvarks symptoms and adjust our treatment or getting advice accordingly.
Monday was Aardvarks 3rd birthday and the poor little girl couldn't even get off the sofa to play with her new dolls house.
We contacted the surgery, just to get some advice and were told to go in because of her age. We questioned this, as clearly she was showing flu-like symptoms, but in we went and were promptly given a terrible attitude by the doctor for being there! We came away with no more than we knew anyhow and we were confident that we could cope.
However on Tuesday she coughed so much and then vomited up blood clots - we went to hospital. The Doctor was wonderful, we were seen almost straight away and luckily all was well before we came home. The Doctor even rang at the end of his shift to see how she was.
This was the day Aardvark and I were at our worst and then Rhino started going downhill.
Luckily he seems to just be a little up and down, today we are all feeling better than the last few days but today has hit me just how ill we have been.
I maintained that the H1N1 vaccine came out far too fast and I was wary of it being injected en-mass to under 5's (back when the were giving it to all under 5's). For this reason, and that my children are both healthy we decided that they would not have the flu jab.
Since then, only people with certain health problems are given it and now all of a sudden people are insisting their children have the vaccine.
There has been a very sad case of a 3 year old dying over christmas. Aardvark is just 3 and it really hit a nerve with me but I stand by our decision. Flu - whatever strain, will kill people, it has always happened. People have died after having the vaccine (even though they were perfectly healthy before). People are still getting the flu and dying even after having the vaccine.
So many dilemmas to face and as a parent of young children all you want to do is protect them from harm, but what if you don't know where the actual harm is? What do you do for the best? How can you live with your decision if the worst happens?
I hope that whatever we have had, has built up Aardvark and Rhino's immune system and made them more resistant to these horrible viruses.
If you are ill at the moment, I hope you get better soon. x
Ha! Well you are wrong! My absence has not been anything exciting like a holiday or winning the lottery, but the bloomin' flu.
Last Saturday Aardvark began running a temperature and became very lethargic. She ended up peaking at 40 degrees and we had to strip her off and cool her down. She developed a cough and was very unwell indeed, this continued all over the weekend. So it was a round of getting fluids in her, making sure she was weeing and shovelling calpol down her.
I then began to feel unwell and by the time The Hubstacle had telephoned the nursery on Monday morning, I was down and out. The head said that 7 other pupils had been off with the same symptoms and there had been one confirmed swine flu. She told us this, not to panic us, but so we could better judge Aardvarks symptoms and adjust our treatment or getting advice accordingly.
Monday was Aardvarks 3rd birthday and the poor little girl couldn't even get off the sofa to play with her new dolls house.
We contacted the surgery, just to get some advice and were told to go in because of her age. We questioned this, as clearly she was showing flu-like symptoms, but in we went and were promptly given a terrible attitude by the doctor for being there! We came away with no more than we knew anyhow and we were confident that we could cope.
However on Tuesday she coughed so much and then vomited up blood clots - we went to hospital. The Doctor was wonderful, we were seen almost straight away and luckily all was well before we came home. The Doctor even rang at the end of his shift to see how she was.
This was the day Aardvark and I were at our worst and then Rhino started going downhill.
Luckily he seems to just be a little up and down, today we are all feeling better than the last few days but today has hit me just how ill we have been.
I maintained that the H1N1 vaccine came out far too fast and I was wary of it being injected en-mass to under 5's (back when the were giving it to all under 5's). For this reason, and that my children are both healthy we decided that they would not have the flu jab.
Since then, only people with certain health problems are given it and now all of a sudden people are insisting their children have the vaccine.
There has been a very sad case of a 3 year old dying over christmas. Aardvark is just 3 and it really hit a nerve with me but I stand by our decision. Flu - whatever strain, will kill people, it has always happened. People have died after having the vaccine (even though they were perfectly healthy before). People are still getting the flu and dying even after having the vaccine.
So many dilemmas to face and as a parent of young children all you want to do is protect them from harm, but what if you don't know where the actual harm is? What do you do for the best? How can you live with your decision if the worst happens?
I hope that whatever we have had, has built up Aardvark and Rhino's immune system and made them more resistant to these horrible viruses.
If you are ill at the moment, I hope you get better soon. x
Wednesday 5 January 2011
Keep Calm and Carry On
Since New Year's Eve (called Old Year's Eve, in this neck of the wood's), I have been dogged with bad stomach ache. Now it's not related to ablutions of any sort as that is all moving through just fine (sorry if you are reading this whilst eating!), and I don't feel sick at all.
I could be sitting there happy as Larry one minute and then the next I will get a terrible stabbing-griping pain that really takes my breath away and causes me to double over in agony. In fact I even didn't go to Slimming World and my Drama club tonight, mainly because I didn't want to risk driving and then getting a pain.
I am starving hungry, yet frightened to eat anything in case it sets off the pains. I have however considered that it might well be down to anxiety. Aardvark starts nursery school tomorrow and although I am putting on a good front I am in bits inside.
I have been very upbeat with her and at the moment she is totally unfazed - that might change in the morning of course - but the cause of this pain could really be a physical manifestation of an emotional issue.
I hope so, because at this rate I will get to my target weight in a super-speedy time if I am not bloomin' eating anything!
I could be sitting there happy as Larry one minute and then the next I will get a terrible stabbing-griping pain that really takes my breath away and causes me to double over in agony. In fact I even didn't go to Slimming World and my Drama club tonight, mainly because I didn't want to risk driving and then getting a pain.
I am starving hungry, yet frightened to eat anything in case it sets off the pains. I have however considered that it might well be down to anxiety. Aardvark starts nursery school tomorrow and although I am putting on a good front I am in bits inside.
I have been very upbeat with her and at the moment she is totally unfazed - that might change in the morning of course - but the cause of this pain could really be a physical manifestation of an emotional issue.
I hope so, because at this rate I will get to my target weight in a super-speedy time if I am not bloomin' eating anything!
Sunday 2 January 2011
First Blog Post of 2011
Hello All,
Out of principle I did not blog yesterday and do you know what? I really really missed it, even though I can (and do) talk absolute twaddle sometimes (ok, most of the time). I never thought that I would ever have time to write a blog, I hardly ever have time to brush my teeth in the mornings so actually sitting still and typing seemed like a mission impossible. But never the one to refuse a challenge, it's worth a go is it not?
Today we have all been in the wars, I cut myself, Aardvark hit her head on the radiator whilst rolling about in the floor, Rhino let go of the lid of the desk and didn't move his thumb in time and The Hubstacle kept getting bitten by the braver pigs when doing his rounds! I just recently qualified as a full first aided and have out quite a range of my skills to the test.
In-between having pretend tea parties, setting up the train tracks only to find them in bits when I next walk in the room, making meals, changing nappies, giving lots of cuddles, kisses, raspberries on tummies, cleaning up, chucking stuff in the washer, chucking stuff in the drier, chucking stuff in the dishwasher (must try to remember not to throw stuff in there, it's getting expensive), I have been trying to get the house ready for a guest who is arriving tomorrow (silent scream as I am no where near ready).
I did mention in a previous entry I was expecting a guest and how I needed to clear all the boxes from the hallway to the back stairs. Well you will be pleased to know that has been done and it was done today in a panic when I realised that I hadn't done it (far too many done's in that, but at the present time I am beyond caring).
I have hurridly been preparing the spare room, it for my best friend and she is hardly going to worry but I seem to remember apologising last time she came, about the less than welcoming room and that it was on my to do list. Well, it still is on that list and today I rearranged things a bit in the hope she won't realise nothing has changed!
I collect her from the train station at lunchtime, which hopefully will give me time to Hoover, dust, empty the bins, clean the bathroom, kitchen and lounge, wash the fleecy blankets on the lounge sofas as the dog was laying on them today and he stinks. Then give the dog a bath, wash his bedding, dash to the shops for the things I have forgotten, pay the papers, go to the post office, clean the cat litter tray, and mop everywhere.
Oh bugger it, I will just get her drunk on wine and hope she doesn't notice! There is no use trying to cover anything up as she knows me too well and we are talking about someone who has experience in what I am like as she used to clean before her cleaner arrived!
She will be far too busy playing with her charges anyway, hurry up my friend, we have missed you.
Out of principle I did not blog yesterday and do you know what? I really really missed it, even though I can (and do) talk absolute twaddle sometimes (ok, most of the time). I never thought that I would ever have time to write a blog, I hardly ever have time to brush my teeth in the mornings so actually sitting still and typing seemed like a mission impossible. But never the one to refuse a challenge, it's worth a go is it not?
Today we have all been in the wars, I cut myself, Aardvark hit her head on the radiator whilst rolling about in the floor, Rhino let go of the lid of the desk and didn't move his thumb in time and The Hubstacle kept getting bitten by the braver pigs when doing his rounds! I just recently qualified as a full first aided and have out quite a range of my skills to the test.
In-between having pretend tea parties, setting up the train tracks only to find them in bits when I next walk in the room, making meals, changing nappies, giving lots of cuddles, kisses, raspberries on tummies, cleaning up, chucking stuff in the washer, chucking stuff in the drier, chucking stuff in the dishwasher (must try to remember not to throw stuff in there, it's getting expensive), I have been trying to get the house ready for a guest who is arriving tomorrow (silent scream as I am no where near ready).
I did mention in a previous entry I was expecting a guest and how I needed to clear all the boxes from the hallway to the back stairs. Well you will be pleased to know that has been done and it was done today in a panic when I realised that I hadn't done it (far too many done's in that, but at the present time I am beyond caring).
I have hurridly been preparing the spare room, it for my best friend and she is hardly going to worry but I seem to remember apologising last time she came, about the less than welcoming room and that it was on my to do list. Well, it still is on that list and today I rearranged things a bit in the hope she won't realise nothing has changed!
I collect her from the train station at lunchtime, which hopefully will give me time to Hoover, dust, empty the bins, clean the bathroom, kitchen and lounge, wash the fleecy blankets on the lounge sofas as the dog was laying on them today and he stinks. Then give the dog a bath, wash his bedding, dash to the shops for the things I have forgotten, pay the papers, go to the post office, clean the cat litter tray, and mop everywhere.
Oh bugger it, I will just get her drunk on wine and hope she doesn't notice! There is no use trying to cover anything up as she knows me too well and we are talking about someone who has experience in what I am like as she used to clean before her cleaner arrived!
She will be far too busy playing with her charges anyway, hurry up my friend, we have missed you.
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