Quick Quick!!!

Stunningly simple. Played with Auntie Kate and S this morning and with little HE’d friend E this afternoon. All fell asleep shattered shortly after mummy departed for lovely reflexology appointment. Ammi marginally better but still wheezy and grumpy. Didn’t stop her flooding the bathroom though.

House is a bit messy, hope the Raine Drops don’t mind.

I know its not remotely funny really but i have to say that the news reports of “Hurricane Frances” brought a smile to my face. I do hope its not as devastating as our own personal one….

Perfectly Pants.

Oh dear. (That is twice in one day, so i think it must have been a tough one!) Its all been a bit rubbish today, Ammi is feeling grotty, although i expect it will improve now, i’m whacked and the girls are grumpy. We really didn’t manage to make anything of our Bank Holiday at all, heigh ho.

I’m feeling a trifle baffled by Maddy, who has spent most of the day staring blankly at me for the simplest of things – like “can you pick up those beads so i can vacuum clean” resulting in her trying to pick up the rubbish not the beads and just not getting it after about 20 attempts to make her understand. :~( Plus she is wetting her knickers and staying in them, whgich is odd for Maddy ot say the least. Something else to bother about.

Everyone has done loads of jigsaws, made lots of necklaces, read some books, done some wordsearches (Maddy worked really hard at hers and found them all) and we gave their rooms a good clear out, de-clutter and clean so it all feel nice and fresh. Plus we finished the Ark tonight and read a couple of good Aesops – The Lion and the Mouse and The Shepherd and the Wolf, so it ended nicely. I love our story times now, it really lifts the day and Ammi gets one from Max too so i feel like we put everyone to bed really loved.

Looking forward to our visitors now :~)

Books to read.

We’ve nearly finished the Ark for now and i need afew more “complete story in a chapter” type books to read until i can afford my next Amazon order. Fran has asked for Lion,Witch and Wardrobe but i think if we move straight on to that we are going to lose Maddy because she has a real tendency to twitter at the moment and i’m going to get annoyed if she spoils the experience by doing that. So i’m just hunting the shelves and some booklists for something appropriate. When i am up at mums i shall have to look in the one remaining book box they have and see if i can salvage anything from that.

I’ve found
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Teddy Robinson Himself
Stories (and More Stories) from Grandma’s Attic
Mr Meddle’s Mischief
Tales from the Trojan War (might have to check that first, it looks a bit bloodthirsty!)

which all have short stories.

I’ve got recollections of
Mrs Pepperpot
My Naughty little Sister
Ramona
Moomins

which might be worth looking for in the library of charity shops

and then i guess i have

The Sheep Pig
Heidi
Charlottes Web
The Wizard of Oz

all ready to be read on the shelf plus the Narnia ones which i think are probably all well within Fran’s grasp now, but like i say, i don’t want to spoil them for us by getting irate and upsetting Maddy. peter Pan didn’t work too well because we have the unabridged version (although i think i also have the version for small people somewhere) and the long one was just shockingly wordy! Dad has the complete Winnie the Pooh too which i might be able to borrow. I think we have a “stories from” version of it. I’m wondering about asking for a Beatrix Potter set and a Mr Man set for Xmas for them. I know lots of people have issues with BP but i don’t really… lol. Nothing like a good thrashing of a rabbit to knock sense into you ;~) Anyone read any Brer Rabbit? What is that like? I’m not at all sure i am psychologically up to reading The Velveteen Rabbit unless i buy the dumbed down version, which seems a cop out really. (Although traumatised children i can do without too i guess!)

Any other offers on the short story types? I’m a complete Enid Blyton numpty, never read any of her small people books so are any of those worth getting? (Trip to fave old book shop coming up!)

Oh Ouch :~(

Oh dear, now we have done asthma properly :~( Well not properly in an HRH or rush someone to hospital in an ambulance fashion, but quite well enough thank you very much. I sat up with Ammi all night and she only drifted off to sleep between 2 and 3.30ish. When she woke up again she was far worse and for the first time the cough out was accompanied by a wheeze in as well. 8 doses of ventolin and some piriton later and things didn’t seem to be improving at all, so i gave in and took her to the all-night walk in place (a small advantage of living in a city!)

I’ll never quite understand the rule that means that this ALWAYS effects a 50% recovery in said child but she definitely was a good bit better by the time we got there. But i guess nurses and so on see that all the time and were very nice about it, had a good listen and agreed a doctor needed to see her. Who duly came along and said that as things seemed to be improving they wouldn’t do a nebuliser but gave me some soluble steroids for her if it got worse. Which it duly did the moment we got home again. Still, she seems to be on the up now… honestly, KIDS!

Netsky nonsense.

Grrr.. bah humbug. last night my computer started to behave rather oddly; as soon as it was running it would be using 100% of the processor power and nothing would work. Somehow i felt it might be prudent to leave it doing a virus scan overnight and came down at some point to discover 185 viruses on the system. Hm. I thought. Odd really, given the email protection is switched on and my scanner keeps telling me things are being removed. Twaddled endlessly with it only to discover that NOTHING in the instructions in fact made any sense and there didn’t appear to be any place i could get rid of said 185 viruses. Sulked some more than stormed out and spent £40 on Norton, which has spent all day running and has found a further 5 viruses, of which 2 were uncleanable and so it killed them. And taa-daa!!!! i have a running computer again. Grrrr bah humbug. Last time i USE those other people – so glad that when i got Max’s version last night i only signed up for the free trial for him. I’ve got a nasty feeling it might have had something to do with my IM programme – i got a couple of firewall alerts last week tellnig me that it was trying to send emails, which seemed odd and it had started to load very slowly too. So beware….

Anyway, the 6 hours of computerless time have been useful; i’ve managed to sort most of my business paperwork into order so geting my accounts done should now be a sinch (lol…).

Kids have amused themselves today although we have started a Sylavannian Families Magazine project to make hot air balloons – so its been papier mache at 50 paces all day. I’ve even put a layer on for them this evening, i’m too nice!

Amelie was horribly poorly all night; woke at midnight coughing on every breath and wouldn’t you know it, her inhaler ran out. Job 456 last week was to get repeat prescriptions.. i only made it to job 455 :~( So i sat up with her in my arms all night, coughing away (breathing okay i hasten to add, just coughing a lot too) while she dozed and i rubbed cream into her very itchy body. Poor wee girl :~( Its a rotten thing, it really is. nice pharmacist gave me emergency supplies today till i can get to the doctor for a repeat prescription. (Made me laugh actually, you can almost bet my mum taught him! DEFINITE accent i recognise!)

And that is it i’m afraid – no educational input at all….. will they make it do you think? Oh well, i did read the Story of St Alban and The Doves Tale (BOTH made me cry!)

May the saints preserve us then!!!

Messy homes “cause messy minds”