I’ve managed to be ill for most of the time since Xmas day, first with a cold and then with some lingering cough virus which will neither bugger off, nor be quite bad enough to make me properly ill. So i’ve been asleep a good bit, coughing when awake and feeling slightly out of sorts. But since we were mainly just hunkered down for the holidays, it hasn’t really mattered, although i would have liked more energy to enjoy it.
We had a lovely New Year with The Beans, very much part of our tradition now and then we’ve been trying to rid the house of some clutter since, using bits of time i’ve been awake to clear out cupboards and crud holes. So far we’ve managed 15 bags of rubbish from F & M’s room, the bathroom, kitchen and my wardrobe. I think the skip we’ve hired which will hopefully make it here tomorrow is going to fill up nicely. The idea was to clear the garage into it – but i think we might have to get another one!
Today we made a start back to some gentle work and music practise; everyone is a bit rusty but i dare say it will all be okay in a few days. Fran was cross with fourth position on cello and Amelie knocked her G-string out of tune; guitar made Maddy cry – but still, that is why practise is important. After that Fran did some GP history and then told me all about Matilda and Stephen, Amelie wrote some sentences about what she’d learned from this amazing book, Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story which she got for Christmas and has been going on and on about. It has been lovely to hear her enthusiasm for it – the sentences were random but definitely proved she’d engaged with the topic and understood the sense of it all. Trying to think what Maddy was doing…. reading i think – and Josie was writing out words from a penguin book very industriously. Gosh, she is now in the term after her fifth birthday – official!!!
At this point everything stopped as i got a call from the gym coach to say they wanted to offer Amelie a trial place in the same squad that Fran has recently moved into. She has to get through a grading in April and prove she is up to standard for a competition in July or she’ll have to move down again but she is SO excited – even better, she was allowed to start tonight!!!! It means she has to drop the rhythmic class (although the coach hasn’t turned up for 2 weeks, so she has presumably dropped them) but Amelie is just SO excited! And it does make things easier in terms of how we organise our evenings. Spurred on by that, i called the local Taekwondo club and they are doing a trial for Maddy and Josie on Thursday and the classes run 200yards from gym at the same time, conveniently offset by 15 minutes at one end. So potentially rather perfect as Maddy is really keen on that as an idea and Josie is up for giving it a try.
After that we popped into town to look for sewing patterns for Fran, organise my birthday present, pay in some cheques and have some family time, then home for tea and then gym. Fran tends to get out of condition quite quickly but Amelie doesn’t so much and she fitted right in and looked like she had been there for months already. So pleased for her 🙂
Great news for Amelie 🙂
Am really thrilled for her; she wants this incredibly badly and i had a feeling the opportunity might flit by and it be too late if another few months just passed. Now at least she gets a chance to rise to the challenge and prove herself – it’s in her hands and she can’t ask for much more than that really.
Fab news for Ams.
I don’t want to share this illness any more. Do you want to have all of it?
Really no. We’ve been ill in some sort of rolling road block since the end of October. I have no idea who is at the beginning, middle or end of any particular version of which cold at all and i can’t even keep us at home to try and clear it – we’d have been home solidly for 2 months. This cough is just the end – i coughed myself sick last night and i can only sleep sitting up. Poor baby must feel like it is at sea in a storm.
I’m being as manfully stoical about it as possible but i am so fed up of being ill, having ill deaf children, being kept up half the night with either me or one of the children coughing or crying and all the rest of it. I feel like i’m on a plague ward where no one gets better or worse – it just goes on and on forever!!!!
That’s what it was like that awful year I went from flu to bronchitis to pneumonia and then just when I thought it was safe to move, bronchitis again at Melrose, necesitating andrew Monkhouse and Bob setting up a relay evacuation from one end of country to other. I have never been so fed up with myself in my life. AND it gve me a Melrose aversion. 🙂 And then I got shingles. Hope you feel better soon, altho do have image of baby on bridge like the captain on Poisiden Adventure, watching the wave and with a speech bubble coming out of head saying ‘shit’Well done Ams.
God yeah, that was awful for you. This is nothing like so bad, thankfully. All those dreadful bouts of tonsils mean i can carry on more or less fine even when quite ill, this isn’t close to that. I’m just tired, tired of having sick kids, tired of being tired and well, to put not too fine a point on it, a racking cough when pregnant with fifth child means that there is rather a lot to try and keep control of 🙁 I daren’t leave home now and when you get to the point where being sick is preferable… well… !!!!!
Lovely to see you last night – Amelie really did look like she ‘belonged’ there! So pleased for her – its about time though really! I didn’t get chance to congratulate her so please do that for me 🙂
Great news for Amelie, well done that girl.
Hope you feel better soon, I’ve been ill on and off at least several days every week for several months now too. Driving me nuts and am not entirely sure its normal. At least I’m not pregnant as well though, that must be vile.