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Easter
Well, we are at my parents for easter and have had a lovely time. Whats more, I didn’t eat way too much chocolate – woohoo!
Sb and my nephew ran around having a ball. Grandad took them to the park a couple of times to let some energy free, and that worked well. He also took SB to feed the ducks by the river on their won. Its the first time he has had her all to himself like that since he did a mercy mission when she was 9 months with chickenpox. I was really happy!
My migraine eventually disappeared – thank god – and we were all otherwise well.
My Nan dozing more than before, but still happy and we all played scrabble together. She had some lovely cuddles with BB, and was entertained by SB. unsurprisingly she hasn’t voted to live with us, but is aware it is an open invitiation. TBH I am actually v disappointed, as it seemed right for her to live with us. However, if I am keen on having an independent autonomous daughter, I can’t really complain at an independent and autonomous Nan! I will still mention it every now and again, and perhaps have her visit us now and again for a battery recharge.
All in all, lovely time. Will prob add a couple of piccies – partic a nice one of BB after SB had decorated her with body stickers!
Today
SB at nursery in the morning. When we woke up, she was telling me how much she wanted to go to the ostrich farm, and wondered whether we could do it today. I was fairly non-commital and texted the post natal group and they had arranged the farm – how jammy is that!! cue wreaths of smiles from SB when i picked her up from nursery and told her where we were going. Took us ages to get out, as she made all her nursery friends cue up to admire and stroke BB! The farm has a nice indoor play area, as well as some unusual animals outside. she particularly liked the wallaby [wollowpie!] with baby in pouch. Also played well with the postnatal group today without getting left out.
BB def gets bored now, so some effort made in jiggling, wiggling and toys! Still feeds for England, and sleeps well though.
In one of her morning sleeps I wrote my letter to work, enclosing an official looking form requesting to work flexibly. I’ve opted for compressed hours for a 4 day week, in the hopes that they find it more acceptable and say yes. then with time, I might work on losing an afternoon as well. However, a 4 day week sounds like a great place to be at the moment. fingers crossed!
Aunty Margaret visited late afternoon, and had a good cuddle of BB, and read ‘the glass heart’ to SB – which is a lovely book. SHe had bought SB a glass heart for easter, and as luck would have it, is still unbroken! She is keen that we restart putting photoalbums on our webpages when we move, so she can keep up with SB and BB. there is such a lot of things to miss when we move.
Thoughts of the days: still gripped by a riptide of melancholia with regards to time passing, both for children and loved ones. however, even with this as background leitmotif, we have still had a lovely time. I am still determined that I will live as much in present as possible, and enjoy it to the max, disregarding sasdness of return to full time employment and mortality issues. I think I have managed quite well.
popped out for a quick shop essentiaals such as beer…. – failing to find any black leggings/tracksuit bottoms etc. for SB for her Stagecoach class we’ve booked her into down in Huntingdon
