I certainly know how to fill up a week...
Monday: New Child Started... Bit one of my existing kids... Lots of screaming and uncomfortable-ness!! Walked around 4.5 km in the hot sun picking up and dropping kids off cause I didn't have room in the car! Just a little bit of stress!
Tuesday: Stressing about the biting happening again, as the same two kids are in care... Stressing cause mum of the bitten says that if it happens again either they go or the new kid goes... finance concerns running around my head! Almost die (well it felt like it!!!) and end up in Hospital!
Wednesday: Forced to take the day off to recouperate... Couldn't rest all that good cause I didn't have my Twilight copy!! Was forced to watch other stuff on TV which wasn't anywhere close to entertainment! Got to spend the day with Stu though - which was nice! Freaking out all day about what my kids are up to with the other carers that they were farmed out to. (Yes... before you ask.. The biter attacked twice at the new careres place... NOT COOL!)
Thursday: Another new kid thrown into the mix. Biter decides to try it on again with another child in care.. Didn't like it when I caught it happening before they became attached... We went to visit Jemma and wreak some havoc over there.. Lots of sleep in the afternoon made for some quiet time for Jess! Checked my late child's hair and found that wonderful thing called Head Lice... Told parent to treat her... Pfft... waste of breath!
Friday: Biter decided to pinch me this morning... Let me tell you that I was NOT impressed. Going to be informing mum tonight that if he attemps again they will have to find alternate care! Hayley and her brood came over to play and while they were here we found that head lice were not treated last night... so home they went and out I went to buy product that I shouldn't have to... but... I don't want them, don't want Stu to get them, don't want them in my house and don't want the other kids to pick them up either. Spent over an hour treating and combing the culprit hair.. much to the childs whinging and complaining. Put a quick treatment through the un-liced head, and have put treatment through my hair aswell... now while they are sleeping, i'm going to put everything in to soak in some hideous smelling stuff to kill any possible tag-alongs... Going out to dinner up the coast tonight - which I am really not in the mood for - but have to go!
Bring on a relaxing weekend and a hopefully quiet week next week... I don't think I could deal otherwise!
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
What to do on a Tuesday when you have a few spare hours..... go to the hospital!!!
So.... yesterday was an um... wonderful day! The sun was shining (too hotly as usual) the birds were singing... water was seaping out of my pores and then there were some sirens and ambo men coming to get me!
Well... that's not all of the story! I had a pretty ordinary morning.. a little teary... thinking I had made a mistake with some of the children I have in care here due to a biting issue that happened on Monday. I've been given the ultimatum that if it happens again one of the family's will go... do I keep the good one or the bad one??? Anyway... after a few tears I decided that I didn't want to be at the house so I took the two kids that I had to the shops just to wander and help Hayley with some shopping she had to do. All was good there, the children behaved, the younger one had a good sleep in the pram and all was peachy, except from my mounting headache! Got home and fed and put the kiddies down for their naps, Stu came home for lunch and I took some painkillers to get rid of the headache.. they worked.... for the headache!
It was all perfect timing as usual as I started to feel 'off' while I was meeting with a new parent for a vacancy that I have! I had to excuse myself while she was filling out forms to go and lay on the floor to try and get some relief from the terrible stomach cramps I was having.. sweat pouring out from everywhere! I went and put my head under the bathroom tap and wet my hair in hopes that would cool me down and make me feel better!!! and then.... little one woke up!! (what's that I was saying about timing!!) We finished off the forms etc and she went after I promised that I would call Stu to come home! We went and played in the toy room... well..... I laid flat out on the floor and he played, and the pain subsided.... I got up to tidy up some of the room and it decided to start again, but this time it was 10 times worse! I was straight on the phone to Hayley. When she got over here (in like 2 seconds!) I think she was a little scared... I was grey and watering my carpet with sweat and just doubled up in pain... the little one was in the toy room (which is thankfully gated!) listening and watching me writhe in pain... and then the other one woke up too!! She rang the Ambo's, Stu and Mary who were all there within like 5 minutes!!! (Sirens and all.... :S) It had passed again when the ambo's got here, but they took me off anyway... and guess what!!! Walking to the vehicle... I decided to have another attack! I think the Ambo was a bit annoyed with me.. cause I was trying to stop myself from moaning from the pain, but he wanted me to describe it for him... come on!!! Use your training and figure it out!!!
We got to the hospital.. and it had passed again.... so into the waiting room I went! FOR 4 HOURS! Was out the back being checked out for another 2.5 before being able to go home... Short story.. Bloods/Urine came back fine and they have no idea! I think it was a reaction to the painkillers I took... (which I take regularly so is unusual) or... the stress I've been under.
Stu reckons that I was a pale shade of grey for quite a while, and that my eye's were almost clear. He thought that I was going to pass out when I had a smaller attack while in the waiting room!
So my kids were farmed out to other carers today so that I could rest and get back to normal before tomorrow! I am looking forward to a quiet weekend this weekend, doing nothing and just spending time with Stu!
I think I need a holiday!
Well... that's not all of the story! I had a pretty ordinary morning.. a little teary... thinking I had made a mistake with some of the children I have in care here due to a biting issue that happened on Monday. I've been given the ultimatum that if it happens again one of the family's will go... do I keep the good one or the bad one??? Anyway... after a few tears I decided that I didn't want to be at the house so I took the two kids that I had to the shops just to wander and help Hayley with some shopping she had to do. All was good there, the children behaved, the younger one had a good sleep in the pram and all was peachy, except from my mounting headache! Got home and fed and put the kiddies down for their naps, Stu came home for lunch and I took some painkillers to get rid of the headache.. they worked.... for the headache!
It was all perfect timing as usual as I started to feel 'off' while I was meeting with a new parent for a vacancy that I have! I had to excuse myself while she was filling out forms to go and lay on the floor to try and get some relief from the terrible stomach cramps I was having.. sweat pouring out from everywhere! I went and put my head under the bathroom tap and wet my hair in hopes that would cool me down and make me feel better!!! and then.... little one woke up!! (what's that I was saying about timing!!) We finished off the forms etc and she went after I promised that I would call Stu to come home! We went and played in the toy room... well..... I laid flat out on the floor and he played, and the pain subsided.... I got up to tidy up some of the room and it decided to start again, but this time it was 10 times worse! I was straight on the phone to Hayley. When she got over here (in like 2 seconds!) I think she was a little scared... I was grey and watering my carpet with sweat and just doubled up in pain... the little one was in the toy room (which is thankfully gated!) listening and watching me writhe in pain... and then the other one woke up too!! She rang the Ambo's, Stu and Mary who were all there within like 5 minutes!!! (Sirens and all.... :S) It had passed again when the ambo's got here, but they took me off anyway... and guess what!!! Walking to the vehicle... I decided to have another attack! I think the Ambo was a bit annoyed with me.. cause I was trying to stop myself from moaning from the pain, but he wanted me to describe it for him... come on!!! Use your training and figure it out!!!
We got to the hospital.. and it had passed again.... so into the waiting room I went! FOR 4 HOURS! Was out the back being checked out for another 2.5 before being able to go home... Short story.. Bloods/Urine came back fine and they have no idea! I think it was a reaction to the painkillers I took... (which I take regularly so is unusual) or... the stress I've been under.
Stu reckons that I was a pale shade of grey for quite a while, and that my eye's were almost clear. He thought that I was going to pass out when I had a smaller attack while in the waiting room!
So my kids were farmed out to other carers today so that I could rest and get back to normal before tomorrow! I am looking forward to a quiet weekend this weekend, doing nothing and just spending time with Stu!
I think I need a holiday!
Friday, February 6, 2009
The Dazzle of Twilight
If you've been paying attention to my Facebook updates, you will see that I am absoloutly obsessed with Twilight at the moment.. not just the Movie (and Rob Pattinson!!!) but with the books aswell..
I can watch the movie (legally of course ;P) and pick out the things that are meant to be in there and the ones that aren't.. I am at the point that listening to the soundtrack I can pick where in the movie most of the songs belong too!!!!
Is there something wrong with me? I don't think so... Is it wrong to strive for the sort of passion that Edward and Bella have for each other in our own relationships.. Obviously this story is fiction - easily distinguised by the fact that Edward is a vampire, but, the bottom line of the love story is the not being able to be apart from one another... Is it just me that craves this sort of depth in a relationship? To simply be willing to die for the one you love?
I think that Stu is waiting for me to get sick of it.. cause for the last few weeks (since we went and saw it the first time at the cinema) it's all that I have been talking about, reading, absorbing?? I was happy as a clam yesterday cause I managed to find a decent copy to get me through to the release of the actual film!! I couldn't fathom paying $15 each time to go and see it at the cinema.
The books are on layby and will be in my hot little hands in the next few weeks.. (Only takes me hours to get through them!)
....and so the lion fell in love with the lamb.....
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