The only way is UP?

I am on the mend. Been hobbling around for days but knee is getting stronger. Taking less pain relief for this.
Despite the fall, cutting my finger on a drawer handle, and the fridge door trapping my other finger nothing else bad could happen. I caused a mirror to drop from a windowsill (by accident) and unbelievably it stayed in tact. Maybe my luck is changing. I can but hope.
In the week I got a call to say I had won a holiday (obviously there were strings attached) but I am not going to follow up on this as it will involve a lot of harrassment from the company concerned so much so that I doubt I will enjoy it.
I may even start playing the lottery again, I have not done this since it first started. I am furiously entering competitions at the moment. A few years ago I had a winning spell of pretty minor things but it was fun receiving things through the post.

Went to Camp Mohawk for their open day. A very enjoyable day it was V&S did not want it to end. The weather was perfect for swimming, ice cream eating and watching the puppet & clown shows. Shame there was not enough time to watch the animals, turtles, shetland ponies. S managed to stroke an owl called Jagger and was very fascinated by this strange creature. The next day he pointed to one in a book and I am sure he said owl. He is starting to talk an awful lot more, he is saying No, Door very clearly now. I am still concerned about his molar tooth that is coming through but it has what looks like an abcess on the side. I will try and get an appointment with the dentist on tuesday just to check it out it just looks very odd to me.

Down down and down we go

On tuesday I had an accident. I fell down the stairs whilst holding S in my arms.
He was fine, thankfully. I was a quivering wreck and in shock for several hours. "I" took over all kiddy duties whilst I hobbled around like an old dear. Resting made it worse, walking made it worse. A day later the doctor looked at it and said it might be a torn ligament and an orthroscopy may be needed if I am still in pain after a week. At the moment it feels like it is getting stronger every day. I can't afford to be out of action I have too many things I need to do. "I" has been very good coming to my rescue. We were even walking arm in arm round the shops today. What with his bad shoulder and my dodgy left knee we are a right couple....................
It seems like such a bad run of luck for me personally of late. I must regain my positive thinking and pick up The Secret again to read. I am sure it will help my state of mind. Think good thoughts and good things will happen. I guess I have been thinking bad thoughts too often and that is what is happening.

Home Alone

Just realised that "I" is working 7 days this week. At least he has some days of next week. It is hard on my own with the children for that length of time, I have great respect for single parents. Things can get very tough with them vying for my attention all the time. Took them to the library today to see a Magic show and balloon blowers. They enjoyed it, although the new toy library was open and they enjoyed that more. V and S were in the little tikes car that they play with at nursery, we will have to get one for them one day. Will have to the library more often I used to take V all the time as a baby but now S is up and moving about I am running in two different directions which is not easy. Guess I let Daddy take them when he is around.
S is still miserable with his teeth coming through I hope they come through a bit quicker as he is awful with it. Ma's birthday tomorrow and I managed to make her a card at craft group this week, quite proud of it, hope she likes it.

Mixed Emotions

Went to hospital yesterday and V's doctor says the hole is closing, so to wait for 1 year before making any decisions on reconstruction. I was so surprised given I am always touching her head and cannot feel or see any change. Also given the fact that they said it will never close naturally it feels like a small miracle is happening.
I am happy that we do not have to make the decision, but part of me for some reason is feeling sad about this to. It is something I find hard to explain. I guess you could say that the decision has been made for us. Mother nature saw to it for us.

It was a long day and neither child went to sleep until after 9pm. This morning they woke at 8am! That has not happened in a very long time. I even had time to make them an omelette before taking V to nursery!

Today is like any other...

I guess she thought it was face cream but she smeared it all over her face and hair. I was not impressed by this at all.....
So this evening I washed yoghurt out of Vs hair and replaited it again.....hard work as I only did it last night. Thankfully she was very patient and only started to moan at the end. I always make sure she has lots of books to read whilst I am doing it as it is a bit boring for her. Big day tomorrow at hospital.
Only one hair pulling incident today and S in tears and his hair a mess....will have to do his hair tomorrow now, wish "I" could plait hair to give me a hand sometimes. S is still teething and miserable with it! He has learnt how to dance like IgglePiggle which is very funny as he thinks he is cool! Except he dances like this all the time.