Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Hmm let the blogging slide again a bit haven't I.
Charlie and I spent the weekend before last finishing off sorting out the garage and taking all of Charlie's baby clothes and bits and pieces into storage. I was okay until I got to the newborn babygro, both those that he wore and those he didn't. I wobbled at that point but was ok again until I got to the moses basket and that was the last straw! Anyway it's all at the storage place which I was fine with until a certain person (you know who you are miss!) mentioned on the phone that the storage place could burn down and it would all be lost!
Last week passed in a rush of assembling the warehouse racking in the garage and removing 25 out of 31 boxes of stock from the sitting room and hall and getting it all put away in the garage-cum-stock-second-stock-room. We can finally see the carpet downstairs now!
The last 6 boxes are lingering because they need a bit more sorting and thinking about but with one exception they are thankfully a normal sized box and not humungeous sized ones so we can live with that for a bit.
We ate out a LOT last week, indian restaurant one night, chinese takeaway another, plus two other meals that I can't even remember. We were both so tired from all the physical shifting around and the usual work and order packing that neither of us could face cooking.
Charlie did a lot of Draw Write Now last week and this is onging this week - he's now got back into the routine of doing one a day and in fact did two today. He's also continuing with his EC each day and is over the moon that German is now available, he loves languages and seems to have quite a knack for the Spanish and French.
Finally got round to ordering his new bed last week too, we went for wooden bunk beds in the end after MUCH deliberation. He's very excited to be able to combine the benefits of a den on the bottom bunk with a spare bed for any one of his beloved puddle girls to sleep in!
In fact spending money seems to be a bit of feature of the last four days, first bunk beds, then holiday for September to the New Forest, then MOT, service and fixing the car due on Wednesday and finally the damn tumble dryer broke today and having already paid for the heating element to be replaced twice in the last years we decided to go for a new one which will arrive on Thursday.
We had a nice weekend, a bit more garage/stock room sorting out on Saturday and one last trip to the storage place to get rid of a few more bits. We then picked up some DVD's, pizza, popcorn and ice-cream and came home to watch Charlie's DVD choice - Night at the Museum. My favourite bit was the Easter Island rock thing with his " you give me gum gum, dum dum"
Sure we went somewhere on Sunday but actually can't remember where. I know Charlie got grounded though - actually more for his own protection that anything he did wrong. There are two brothers that live a few doors down, aged 2 and 5, really lovely little boys but parental supervision is a bit lacking when Daddy is in charge. I only know what happened because my parents saw and heard it but in a nutshell, Charlie and the two boys were on the little bit of public space by the boys house rather than playing on their bikes in the close. They'd got a bit of rope from the boys garage and it had got stuck in a sapling. Charlie had decided it was a good idea to climb this sapling to try and get it down. Luckily my mum heard his voice and sent my dad to get it down for them (he could only just reach with difficulty) and tell them not to play on that bit of land because of the really steep and deep ditch that has a sort of stream running through it. My dad was thinking particularly of the 3 year old.
Apparently the mum had gone shopping and left the dad in charge but he was inside watching football. Bev and I though Charlie was on his bike in the close as we've told him to come and tell us if he wants to go the public space bit.
Anyway its a bit lucky that my parents were home as anything could have happened to any of them messing around with a bit of rope. I'm actually more angry that something could have happened to one of the two younger boys and Charlie would have been blamed. He's not their brother and he shouldn't be expected to look after them. He would however *want* to, and if they got hurt or worse he's the kind of child who would punish himself for the rest of his life about it.
It might be irrational but it would be so easy for someone to enter the public space by the gate on the road side, come down to the part where they all were and grab one of them and be gone in their car before Charlie could have raised the alarm and that makes me mad too.
Pah - I'm really angry at their parents. Charlie was grounded because he didn't come and tell us he was going on that bit of space which he is supposed to but also partly if I'm honest, just to keep him away from them for a bit as I don't appreciate the parents expecting him to look after them. The mum was gone for a couple of hours according to my dad who then stayed out there so he could keep an eye on them and the dad didn't appear at all.
Anyway, quiet-ish week ahead really, doctors for pre-IVF blood tests for me tomorrow, some business stuff going on tomorrow too and that's about it.
Must start packing for my holiday - its only 3 weeks away!
Charlie and I spent the weekend before last finishing off sorting out the garage and taking all of Charlie's baby clothes and bits and pieces into storage. I was okay until I got to the newborn babygro, both those that he wore and those he didn't. I wobbled at that point but was ok again until I got to the moses basket and that was the last straw! Anyway it's all at the storage place which I was fine with until a certain person (you know who you are miss!) mentioned on the phone that the storage place could burn down and it would all be lost!
Last week passed in a rush of assembling the warehouse racking in the garage and removing 25 out of 31 boxes of stock from the sitting room and hall and getting it all put away in the garage-cum-stock-second-stock-room. We can finally see the carpet downstairs now!
The last 6 boxes are lingering because they need a bit more sorting and thinking about but with one exception they are thankfully a normal sized box and not humungeous sized ones so we can live with that for a bit.
We ate out a LOT last week, indian restaurant one night, chinese takeaway another, plus two other meals that I can't even remember. We were both so tired from all the physical shifting around and the usual work and order packing that neither of us could face cooking.
Charlie did a lot of Draw Write Now last week and this is onging this week - he's now got back into the routine of doing one a day and in fact did two today. He's also continuing with his EC each day and is over the moon that German is now available, he loves languages and seems to have quite a knack for the Spanish and French.
Finally got round to ordering his new bed last week too, we went for wooden bunk beds in the end after MUCH deliberation. He's very excited to be able to combine the benefits of a den on the bottom bunk with a spare bed for any one of his beloved puddle girls to sleep in!
In fact spending money seems to be a bit of feature of the last four days, first bunk beds, then holiday for September to the New Forest, then MOT, service and fixing the car due on Wednesday and finally the damn tumble dryer broke today and having already paid for the heating element to be replaced twice in the last years we decided to go for a new one which will arrive on Thursday.
We had a nice weekend, a bit more garage/stock room sorting out on Saturday and one last trip to the storage place to get rid of a few more bits. We then picked up some DVD's, pizza, popcorn and ice-cream and came home to watch Charlie's DVD choice - Night at the Museum. My favourite bit was the Easter Island rock thing with his " you give me gum gum, dum dum"
Sure we went somewhere on Sunday but actually can't remember where. I know Charlie got grounded though - actually more for his own protection that anything he did wrong. There are two brothers that live a few doors down, aged 2 and 5, really lovely little boys but parental supervision is a bit lacking when Daddy is in charge. I only know what happened because my parents saw and heard it but in a nutshell, Charlie and the two boys were on the little bit of public space by the boys house rather than playing on their bikes in the close. They'd got a bit of rope from the boys garage and it had got stuck in a sapling. Charlie had decided it was a good idea to climb this sapling to try and get it down. Luckily my mum heard his voice and sent my dad to get it down for them (he could only just reach with difficulty) and tell them not to play on that bit of land because of the really steep and deep ditch that has a sort of stream running through it. My dad was thinking particularly of the 3 year old.
Apparently the mum had gone shopping and left the dad in charge but he was inside watching football. Bev and I though Charlie was on his bike in the close as we've told him to come and tell us if he wants to go the public space bit.
Anyway its a bit lucky that my parents were home as anything could have happened to any of them messing around with a bit of rope. I'm actually more angry that something could have happened to one of the two younger boys and Charlie would have been blamed. He's not their brother and he shouldn't be expected to look after them. He would however *want* to, and if they got hurt or worse he's the kind of child who would punish himself for the rest of his life about it.
It might be irrational but it would be so easy for someone to enter the public space by the gate on the road side, come down to the part where they all were and grab one of them and be gone in their car before Charlie could have raised the alarm and that makes me mad too.
Pah - I'm really angry at their parents. Charlie was grounded because he didn't come and tell us he was going on that bit of space which he is supposed to but also partly if I'm honest, just to keep him away from them for a bit as I don't appreciate the parents expecting him to look after them. The mum was gone for a couple of hours according to my dad who then stayed out there so he could keep an eye on them and the dad didn't appear at all.
Anyway, quiet-ish week ahead really, doctors for pre-IVF blood tests for me tomorrow, some business stuff going on tomorrow too and that's about it.
Must start packing for my holiday - its only 3 weeks away!
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Whoops
Two months without blogging is quite a long time. Not sure why I stopped really, a combination of no time, very little parent/child interaction actually taking place, yucky personal stuff, more hideous IF treatment not working and an overall feeling of why bother. Sometimes the blog ring feels like a very insular and excluding place, especially when you're in the no mans land of having been on the ring for almost 3 years and "talking" to the people on it for even longer than that through the list, yet circumstances have prevented you from attending all but one camp in that time. It's a bit like being back at school again in some ways. Ho hum, time to realise that the blog stands in its own right and not just on the ring I think.
But a post I read on someone's blog last night about why they blog about their children and everyday lives prompted me into realising that this is something that I need to do more often, Charlie is my only child and his life is rushing by, he'll be 10 in less than 6 months and I'd like to remember some of the rest of his childhood.
Can't really do a proper catch up as it would take too long but suffice to say life has been manic. I'm stuck in the really horrible position of Anara Toys being so busy that it needs me more full time, Reward Board getting very little attention at all but not being able to give up my legal freelance work as I support all 3 of us and neither of the other businesses is making enough yet to replace what I earn! Mortgage is huge - the same as many people earn in a month and that's without even considering the rest of the outgoings, utilities etc Arggghh. I really hate my life sometimes.
Charlie has been playing up terribly for the last month as he has had no attention/time spent with him at all. Anara had its busiest month ever last month and it has increased in turnover every single month without fail. I was talking to a very successful business woman with other night and when I told her the months turnover she was stunned into silence for a few seconds on the basis that it was pretty impressive for its 13 month of trading. That scared me rather. I feel like it is all tumbling out of control somewhat.
Charlie has finished Sonlight Core 1 (must order Core 2) which we happily passed onto the puddles when the come for a lovely visit. A highlight of last month for sure but inevitably poor Charlie was so upset when they went, this time he started crying 30 minutes before they even left. God I hate having an only child - the poor sod is so bloody lonely. Arrgghh.
We spent the weekend in Sussex last weekend, visiting my best friend from boarding school. She has a 6 month baby called Jacob, well Jakey really, and it was lovely to see them both and Charlie was in his element being mother hen - playing with him, cuddling him, pushing his pushchair, giving him his bottle - he loved it and cried when we left!
It's just Charlie and I this weekend, B has gone to London to visit friends and go clubbing. We've got an exciting weekend of taking more stuff to the storage place and tidying out the garage more ready for the racking when it arrives. There are currently 31 boxes of stock in the sitting room as the stock room and the shelves we already have in the garage are full. So the garage is about to become our second stock room with extra stock at the storage place too.
Determined to do something with him this weekend though, will absolutely have to make some time.
But a post I read on someone's blog last night about why they blog about their children and everyday lives prompted me into realising that this is something that I need to do more often, Charlie is my only child and his life is rushing by, he'll be 10 in less than 6 months and I'd like to remember some of the rest of his childhood.
Can't really do a proper catch up as it would take too long but suffice to say life has been manic. I'm stuck in the really horrible position of Anara Toys being so busy that it needs me more full time, Reward Board getting very little attention at all but not being able to give up my legal freelance work as I support all 3 of us and neither of the other businesses is making enough yet to replace what I earn! Mortgage is huge - the same as many people earn in a month and that's without even considering the rest of the outgoings, utilities etc Arggghh. I really hate my life sometimes.
Charlie has been playing up terribly for the last month as he has had no attention/time spent with him at all. Anara had its busiest month ever last month and it has increased in turnover every single month without fail. I was talking to a very successful business woman with other night and when I told her the months turnover she was stunned into silence for a few seconds on the basis that it was pretty impressive for its 13 month of trading. That scared me rather. I feel like it is all tumbling out of control somewhat.
Charlie has finished Sonlight Core 1 (must order Core 2) which we happily passed onto the puddles when the come for a lovely visit. A highlight of last month for sure but inevitably poor Charlie was so upset when they went, this time he started crying 30 minutes before they even left. God I hate having an only child - the poor sod is so bloody lonely. Arrgghh.
We spent the weekend in Sussex last weekend, visiting my best friend from boarding school. She has a 6 month baby called Jacob, well Jakey really, and it was lovely to see them both and Charlie was in his element being mother hen - playing with him, cuddling him, pushing his pushchair, giving him his bottle - he loved it and cried when we left!
It's just Charlie and I this weekend, B has gone to London to visit friends and go clubbing. We've got an exciting weekend of taking more stuff to the storage place and tidying out the garage more ready for the racking when it arrives. There are currently 31 boxes of stock in the sitting room as the stock room and the shelves we already have in the garage are full. So the garage is about to become our second stock room with extra stock at the storage place too.
Determined to do something with him this weekend though, will absolutely have to make some time.
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