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Post by chica on Feb 23, 2007 17:54:15 GMT
Thanks Siany, I must admit I feel like I have been through ten rounds with Mike Tyson, but I guess thats life, and I am still standing but just about. I had my mum in absolute tears this morning, she is absolute breaking point with my dad yet again... She is now 71 and he is 70 in March and I have really lost count of how many times this has happened. My dad to put it in a nutshell has been an absolute b*****d on all of our lives and it never ceases to amaze me how many times we have all had to forgive him (I say forgive but we never forget). What more can I say to her, the answer is nothing anymore, but just listen. I will not let them or rather him drag me down any further. On a happier note the kids had a great day at school today, it was their fiesta and I bought them two great costumes of rumba dancers, they paraded round the tiny village very proudly, it was all followed by hot chocolate and cake on the patio (playground), blow the calories it was delicious. So it has been a day of highs and lows. Hubby is on his way home and should be with us in 5 minutes, the kids have had their teas, so all I have to do is cook ours and then hopefully get to put my feet up. I wonder what this weekend will hold for us all, with luck and prayers it will be a good one!
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Post by Veritee on Feb 23, 2007 19:45:41 GMT
Good for you Chica ' Thats the spirit fight this ******* illness all the way Glad to see you back on your dairy and Spain seems so much fun with fiestas etc Here its been raining for about 20 hours - always seems to be raining here and if we tried to have hot chocolate and cake on our patio we would probably drown makes me want to move there Veritee XX
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Post by chica on Feb 27, 2007 15:43:22 GMT
Thanks Veritee, I must admit, it has taken me a long time to settle here, but as I am beginning to come out of my dark hole of Calcutta, I am beginning to see more positive things around me. For instance last weekend the children spent most of the time out in the garden, on their bikes and on the trampoline, my little lad even wanted to know if we could fill the splash pool we have back up! The thing is though is they take it all for granted as it is all they have ever known. They are so lucky, I was brought up as a young child in the North East of England, and then my later life was in the South East, believe you me I was an expert snowman maker!! How I want to make one with my children.....guess we will just have to make sand ones. I seemed to get quite low and tearful and stressed this weekend, nothing I could put my finger on, but this morning I woke up with terrible stomach cramps. I know I no longer have my bits, but I have found that there is a pattern emerging, that I still seem to get cramps around about every 4-6 weeks, so I guess maybe it was my hormones playing up and by rights I should have just started a period. So hopefully now I will be a bit calmer again. Crikey just noticed the time, have to go and pick kids up again.... Oh well soon be bedtime, for them and a glass of wine for me
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Post by chica on Mar 1, 2007 13:39:59 GMT
I feel shattered today, my little girl woke me up during the night with a nightmare. It is so unusual for me to have problems with her during the night, that it quite shook me up. She ended up cuddling up in our bed for about 45 minutes, then I took her back to her room, she went out like a light, but unfortunately I was then left lying awake listening to dear old hubbies snores...how can men seem to sleep through these things? On top of that we are in the process of swapping bedrooms. I have so much to sort out about wardrobe and cupboard space before ma in law comes, I am fast running out of time. My hoover just blew up and believe it or not, it is impossible to buy (so I have just found out) an upright vaccuum cleaner over here. I was out all morning searching for one, and they just do not exist . Beginning to feel a little crazy again. Stress levels going up definately play havoc with this PNI. Kids are at this moment shouting and screaming at each other in the front room, the dogs are barking at my neighbours tractor, the cat has just brought a blooming mouse into the house, but apart from that I am having a wonderful day!!! ;D
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Post by cheshire on Mar 4, 2007 15:56:53 GMT
Hi Chica My two main worries re. domestic equipment, comprise: hoover not working, washing machine not working - both of which occurred this year on December 22nd!!! Coupled with the fact my hubby will not buy anything outside of the January sales - bit of a nightmare - and so must admit, kids wore the same clothes for days on end & downstairs carpets were caked in pastry, quiche and good ness knows what else ! How's things for you today? Hugs, Hopefulxx
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Post by sianyc on Mar 4, 2007 19:27:39 GMT
Hiya
Been away so just caught up with your diary. Everything comes at once doesn't it?
take care lovely
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Post by chica on Mar 10, 2007 14:54:15 GMT
What a week I have just had. I have not known whether I have been on my arse or my elobows. Sorry for the lanuage if anyone is reading this. The week before my ma in law arrives, and hubby decides lets change everyones bedrooms around!!! The spare room is now our room, the kids are now in the biggest bedroom and the guest bedroom is now on the other side as well, so much upheaval and chaos, and there is one thing that I do not deal with very well at all is chaos. Hubby moved all the furniture which has left me to try and sort out swapping all the clothes drawers and wardrobes out. Basically I have run out of time as ma in law now arrives in a couple of hours and I still have not really managed to sort out all her wardrobes and drawers out. TOUGH she will just have to manage. Why the delay?? We had a mega storm, that lasted for two days, there are trees down power cables and telephone masts down and roofs torn to shreds all over the place, I have never been so frightened in all my life. It has taken me a couple of days to try and sort out all the mess and debris. So really and truly clothe space did not come in my list of priorities. Anyway we all survived, and are now looking back with awe, the kids cannot believe that wind can cause so much damage. Pine trees that have been around for years and must have been at least forty feet high if not higher have just tumbled to the ground like a pack of cards. So here I am on count down for ma in laws arrival, lets hope there are no more gale force winds to contend with. Only having to survive the royal stay.
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Post by monica on Mar 10, 2007 15:28:12 GMT
Hi
You have been through it. The storm must have been so frightening. You survived that so I'm sure you'll get through mil's visit. What is she like? I get the impression she isn't the person you'd like to visit the most so I hope it all goes well. Why don't you try and get her to sort the clothes out..... this was your son's idea, so I'll leave you to finish it off!!!!!
All the best
Monica
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Post by chica on Mar 12, 2007 20:10:08 GMT
Thanks for that Monica, my answer though is ... if only I blooming well could. Don´t get me wrong she is nice enough except that she is not 81 years of age and sits on her backside all bloody day, saying if only I could do this and if only I could do that!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRR. Sorry had to blow off steam, she is so quick to criticise and let you know that she would not do things that way, but she doesnt get up and try and help..... take for instance tonight I had a friend pop over and I could not believe it but she said she would peel some potatoes for dinner, I nearly fainted and looked at my friend in amazement. Cutting a long story short she peeled four bloody potatoes then said, Oh you will have to sort out the rest I have had enough!!!!!! Hubby and ma in law then sat and watched me cook a hole bloody roast dinner without lifting a blooming finger. Sorry for all the B words, I am just absolutely shattered and angry right now. I have not sat down literally all day until now, and enough is enough. We are only on day 2 of the visit as she only arrived saturday evening but already I am at my wits end and she is staying till the 31st March. Oh and the next thing on my great long list of to do things is all of a sudden my mum announced that next Sunday is Mothers Day, my sister was sitting there as well very silent, so hubby then suggests well I guess it is everyone over to us then!!!!! So guess who is going to be up to her eyeballs in catering yet again....... I think I am going to explode. On a prouder note, my little boy and girl have just both had ten out of ten for a progression test that they did in school. So I am very proud, that is the first time I can say that so at least that is more positive in how I feel about them. Although I must admit they are driving me nuts at the moment but I think that is all the stress that I am under, but they can try the patience of a saint I am sure, and I am certainly not one of those, well not unless my halo has well and truly slipped.
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Post by sianyc on Mar 13, 2007 22:10:03 GMT
Mother-in-laws, don't you just love them! Mine is nice and we get on but she can still drive me mad (I'm sure the feeling is mutual though) Make them all beans on toast I say
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Post by chica on Mar 20, 2007 14:06:27 GMT
I have been a bit emotional the last few days and rather tearful, I do not seem to be able to coping with ma in laws visit as well as I usually do, but I have had terrible stomach cramps again these last couple of days, and looking back through my diary, there is definately a pattern, although it is irregular I am sure it is linked to the fact that I would be having a period right now, if only I had my bits!! I still get incredibly angry about the fact that I have had to have a hysterectomy and yet I am still able to suffer monthly stomach cramps, aparently I have now found out that it is possible that a tiny bit of my womb may have been left behind, because it is very difficult to remove the uterus in an emergency after birth.....so the nerve endings if nothing else are still alive and where I also had endometriosis which was not all removed in the procedure it is still trying to escape (how nice). Anyway just about surviving the royal visit from ma in law, although my mothers day did not quite turn out as planned as I was up to my eyeballs in preparing all the dinner etc for everyone else, it does seem strange that for years and years I used to cry because it was mothers day and I would never be one, now I cry because even if it is mothers day, it is still no blooming different, my kids did not even think to say happy mothers day to me, but wanted to take a present to grandma and say happy mothers day to her!!!!! Mind you hubby did manage to go out and buy me some flowers and a card this year, which is the first time he has managed to do so. Yesterday was also the Spanish Fathers day, at least he managed to get tea and presents in bed, maybe he will learn how to do it for me and take notes ;D We seem to be suffering gale force winds again over here, not quite sure what is happening to the weather, but I wish it would stop. After the last lot (now confirmed as a hurricane) I must admit to being a bit afraid of any more trees etc coming down. Enough for now, have to go and do the kids run again.
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Post by chica on Mar 20, 2007 17:12:52 GMT
NEED TO SCREAM!!!!!! AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! Phew thats better, I cannot believe what has just happened, there am I rushing to get the kids tea ready and juggling ma in laws tea as well (cos she cant eat late) when disaster happens, I drop ma in laws piping hot dinner on the floor, does anyone come rushing to help me? Not a cat in hells chance, I thought I was safe to come on the computer for 10 minutes, got called away cos the phone rang, and have now discovered that one of my little ones have just deleted my messages from my pni in box, not sure who looks guiltier Oh well, only 3 more hours to bedtime!!!!
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Post by chica on Mar 23, 2007 15:51:57 GMT
This is day three now where I have no car, it went into the garage on wednesday and there is still no news of when it will be ready, it is driving me nuts and I feel so out of control as I am having to rely on a friend to help me out with the school runs thank god for A. Mind you mum and dad came down yesterday to help with the chauffering, I nearly died of shock!! Must remember yesterdays date and put it on the calender . Ma in Law is still sitting on her backside, the only thing she is good for is playing cards with the kids. Mind you I think my little girl is fast becoming a card shark. It is still such a shock to me at how fast they are growing, and that they are now old enough to be playing cards, dominoes and draughts etc., Still have stomach cramps they have lasted a week now, and are really beginning to pull me down, I have an appointment on Monday to go back and see my doctor, (well thats if my blooming car is fixed by then). I was meant to have been reducing my meds this week so that I could let her know how I was going on, but to be honest I have been under so much stress just lately that the thought of reducing them terrified me so I didn't. Oh well what can the doctor do to me apart from shoot me. Enough for now as kiddies will be home soon, hubby is managing to pick them up for me. I wished I had a relaxing weekend coming up, but there is no chance of that I am afraid.
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Post by chica on Mar 24, 2007 14:49:15 GMT
It looks like my little lad is going down with an ear infection, big time. Why does it always happen at the weekend, when especially over here, everything closes down. I have just spent an hour with a friend of mine trying to drive around and find an emergency chemist that is open, no such blooming luck, I cannot even by calp0l over here without having to go to a blooming pharmacy, which even if they are open for emergencies they still shut down for a bloody siesta, so I will have to try and go back out again at 5. Mind you on saying that the pharmacies will provide you with antibiotics, (they are allowed to do that over here). It is just having to wait for the siesta to be over that is the frustrating part. There has been talk over the years that eventually the siesta will be abolished but that does not help me now. Apart from that, my car is still not out the garage, and Oh guess what, everyone is coming over to my house tomorrow because it is my dads birthday on Tuesday (hope that makes sense), but I have more space over here in my house for us all to get together, so guess who now has a poorly little boy and is going to have to cater for tomorrrow as well!!! I had a funny feeling that this weekend was not going to be an easy one. Never mind must remember to keep on smiling!!! It makes everyone wonder what I have been up to.
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Post by chica on Mar 27, 2007 9:36:25 GMT
My little lads ear infection is getting better thank god, poor little might was poorly, it eventually took me an hours drive and 7 chemists later to find one that was eventually open on Saturday, we started the antibiotics straight away, and he says that he is feeling a bit better this morning, he must be as he had not temperature at last. I went back to see my doctor yesterday, I was a bit nervous as I had meant to have been reducing my meds, which I am afraid I had not, so I was waiting for a telling off. Fortunately she was very understanding, and when I explained what has been happening in my life these last few months, she was actually quite proud of me not getting any worse... if I had not been on my meds I really cannot imagine what sort of state I would have been in now. So we agreed to carry on taking the dosage that I am on now for another 2 months and then reduce them so I feel a lot happier and relieved now. I have just had word from the garage that my car is at last ready, thank god, I have managed to drive my hubbies car yesterday, but it is so heavy, even with the power steering I still struggle, so today my arthritis in my hands wrists arms and neck is really painful on top of that we are having a terrible storm, and I am quite worried about whether the car will make it down our dirt track, it looks more like I need a canoe!! Praying to God now that I wont get bogged down or stuck. Wish me luck!!!
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