Hi all, I came home Tuesday much to the suprise of everyone but I always recover quickly. I feel pretty good too as long as I behave and rest and at the moent this even includes the computer as I can’t sit here too long as the fluid builds up and I end up with elephant legs.
Will ccatch up properly soon
Denise
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On Wednesday afternoon I called Social Services thinking they might be able to help look after the boys while I am recovering from my operation. On Thurday the social worker called to say she would come Friday afternoon at 2pm. At 1pm she called to say she would be late and would now call on her way home at 3:30. I thought that obviously there was going to be no help available before Monday.
Anyway the upshot is, we could have about 4 hours a week for someone to come in and look after Ryan but that person would not be able to look after Nathan so I would still have to arrange care for him. Apparently my husband is expected to stop work to care for the 3 of us for the next 7 weeks, great as he is self employed this would mean no income, but even if he worked for an employer surely they wouldn’t accept him being off for 7 weeks. She had the cheek to ask , does he not WANT to look after the children or something? She also twittered on about home education and was it possible for the boys to go to school and then Chris could work while they were at school. She then said did I want her to call Chris to explain it to him, I politely declined saying I was more than capable.
There was a lot more said but I am so angry and don’t know why I bothered.
We went to our fortnightly home ed meeting today at Natures World, I took my nephew along too and he really enjoyed himself. We also went into the complex afterwards, they played in park and then they looked at worms, beetles and other insects with some of their friends. We also headed towards the pond which had hundreds of frogs by the water edge playing piggyback which let to a quick explanation of why the children shouldn’t seperate the frogs. All three boys were so tired they fell asleep on the way home.
I came home to 5 messages on the answer machine and a letter telling me my bed is reserved for Monday with surgery on Tuesday so would appreciate your prayers, especially that the family cope at home. Nathan is already showing stress signs by eating his T-Shirt and a nose bleed 
I’d been reading recently on a forum about people setting up false direct debits on bank accounts and stuff like that so last week when I checked my bank and noticed a direct debit for someone I didn’t recognise I cancelled it. Yesterday I had a call from the minibus insurance company that I have cancelled the direct debit so the insurance will become null and void in 7 days…after a few frantic phone calls I did sort it out but felt like a right numpty.
We were also invited to a birthday party with a difference yesterday. We went first and had a treasure hunt in the garden, some food and pass the parcel. After all that we set off towards Dalby Forest for a Splat! party . What brilliant fun, we started by hurling sponge balls filled with paint at each other, the ceiling, the walls. Nathan pained his arms, Ryan went round squirting everyone with water, I mostly avoided the paint. Then we danced in our bare feet on a mat and print were taken, then the children created a master piece on canvas. It was noticed I wasn’t too bad so another mum decided I needed more painting and Ryan helped 
Absolutely brilliant fun although my bathroom will probably never be the same again.
I was very sad to hear this week the news that a home educating mum in our region had died suddenly. I only met her once and that was only a few months ago as she came to a local LA liaison meeting and I was really looking forward to meeting her again, her 14 year old son is now an orphan and I now find myself wondering what will become of him, school would definately ot be the right place for him. I find myself wondering if she had a plan in place should such a thing occur,then also should I make plans? It’s a subject that no parent of young children ever really wants to think about but one that we probably should.
Anyway I wen out last night wasn’t going to but my sister called me to tell me that Journey South were playing locally and did I want to go, so I smartened up a little , put on some jewellry that a friend made me for my birthday and went out. Although the sound quality was really poor where we were sat (not the groups fault I hasten to add) it was a really enjoyable evening and Journey South were excellent.
Most of the snow has melted away here but ther is still the odd flurry and yet my rather strange husband has said that because it is Easter Monday he is going out on his motorbike no matter what and he has.
I never go anywhere bank holiday weekends, well when I say never there has been the odd occasion where I have been brave and then sat in traffic to confirm the reason we never normally go out. I much prefer to wait until everyone is back at school and then we can get back to quiet places, although the different counties round here are all having staggered holidays so doesn’t make it easy to judge.
We’ve woken to a blanket of the white stuff, I love snow, fresh snow that is not when it starts to disappear and goes all sluy and mushy. I’m waiting for Jay to wake up now, I was babysitting last night. I usually put him on the air bed in with his uncles but it invariably ends up with him geting up several times and a very early morning so last night I put him in with me and he slept right through!!! And I am sat here waiting for him to get up so I can show him snow, I don’t think he’s ever seen proper snow that he’s be able to remember.
Ryan can’t understand why it is snowing at this time of year, I’ve tried before to explain that weather isn’t governed by the seasons or months but it doesn’t seem to sink in and he is not interested in looking it up or sitting and reading a weather book with me.
My living room, front room, lounge, whatever you wish to call it has ben overtaken. It’s not very big as it is, but this week it has been turned into a den
I haven’t even taken down my birthday cards because I can’t get to them the boys have been watching Jim Carrey films from the comfort of the den, the Truman Show has managed to give Nathan acute paranoia but has led to some interesting discussion on the general big brother culture surrounding us today. Liar Liar has also helped us explore telling the truth, eee never thought I’d find Ace Ventura educational
Have been to see the surgeon today, he has a space in a couple of weeks s he’s going to ‘do’ me then, although until I have the date will not quite believe it
Ryan said to me yesterday morning “I had a dream last night and I think I’ve just had it again”
“What do you mean son?”
“Well I was just watching the TV and the advert I dreamt last night just came on”
I think he has a bit of an advert obsession at the moment, he will pause the TV and shout me to come and watch and then can’t understand why I am not getting as excited as him, so it came as no suprise to me that he is dreaming whole adverts. Maybe he will be able to channel this market research into something one day
Having had to buy scones for hubby pah, I decided I really needed to make some cakes today so I followed a recipe Claire passed on and did this chocolate cake
Followed by some sesame snaps taken from Linz
Have just been round to take Katy for a shower screen someone was giving away on Freecycle, she has got some really nice things from there and people have been very generous. She is sorting out some things she doesn’t need to see if someone else can use them.
That’s it for today, I’m still recovering from the weekend and Tuesdays jaunt.
Having been back at home for less than 24 hours I had to go yesterday for a CT at the Freeman as a check for some up and coming surgery. We decided that we would call in at the Sunderland Glass Centre on the way. We were all impressed with this neon piece of art work which must have been made from billions of grains of rice, shame about the waste of food though.
We all found the glass blowing especially good though and spent ages watching only
Which was ok but it made me 5 minutes late for my appointment which I didn’t worry about too much but at half past one I still hadn’t been acknowledged by the nurse who then came and started telling me I was very late and should have been there at one, to which I replied well I was only a couple of minutes late but I have been sat here at least 25 mins, thankfully that was confirmed by other patients but it did mean I had to wait as I had missed my slot, so I didn’t get home until 5pm and we were taking 16 cubs bowling at 5:30