Our eldest
daughter has a day off today, and with Mike dashing off early (complete with
hundreds of pages of near-perfect printing!) she takes her sister down to school
for me, so that just for once I don’t have to manage both the school run AND
the recycling! The added extra few minutes soon get lost however, in amongst
all the usual morning routines but they are still more than welcome, especially
as I don’t have to walk up the steep hill back home before sorting it all out!
After
helping me to take in the Tesco online shopping, my big girl takes herself off
to the living room to find some telly to watch. Although she’s far more well
than she was at the weekend, this flu bug’s still got a hold of her and I’m
glad she’s had this day off written into her shifts, as hopefully she’ll have a
nice lazy day with no one else around. Our son too, has come down with a form
of the bug- he was extremely poorly on Tuesday evening, but managed to pull
himself together ok for school yesterday. He’s obviously got a slightly milder
form of it, to be capable of going out, but I’m still worried that he shouldn’t
even be out today. I just hope it doesn’t go around the rest of us.
It’s turned
very cold and dull, and keeps intermittently snowing and sleeting, and I’m
struggling to keep warm and motivated. I think I’m dwelling too much on whether
or not we’re all about to go down ill, which is rather putting me off my
sewing! Instead, I concentrate on some more blog drafting and getting some
written up ready for posting online, and publish what I hope will be the first
of two put on there today.
I’m making a
simple mince dinner tonight, so as I don’t need to worry about that until later
I set to with another load of cutting out. It seems such a futile job at the
time- whenever Mike comes in and asks after my day, if all I can say is ‘I did
lots of cutting out’, I always feel I’ve failed in my day. Which is stupid
really, as without all the cutting out, I would have nothing to actually sew!
And when faced with a whole day free to get sewing, if there’s nothing actually
cut out and ready, by the time I’ve cut some out, I’ve lost a load of my sewing
time!! I think it’s just one of those things I need to get my head around…
Unfortunately
it seems my fears are beginning to be realised by the time our second youngest
daughter gets home, as she’s hot and shivery with a raging cold and says she’s
been like it for most of the day. She’s soon cosy in her pyjamas, dosed up with
paracetamol and lovely soup (made by her in cookery this week), and packed off
up to bed. ‘It’s ok’, she says, ‘I’ll be at school tomorrow as there’s the
visiting Shakespeare theatre company coming in, I’m not missing that’. Hmmm,
we’ll see.
I’m not
convinced that Mike’s not brewing this flu bug too- I know he’s had a full on
day with his training course today, and he always can have a bit of a tendency
towards laziness, but something about the way he just seems to be oblivious to
me doing the dinner time washing up, and end of the day routines without even a
half-hearted offer of help is making me a little suspicious…
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