Okay, I really am getting slack at this whole blogging thing as you guys already know! Not only have I not been updating my one, but I have been so slack in reading others as well!
Been going through heaps in the last few weeks, I have been fighting a throat infection for the last 3 weeks now! And now it is really starting to wear me down. I went to the Drs 3 weeks ago and got a course of AB's and within 4 days of finishing them, it came back though not as bad. And for the last 2 weeks now, it has come and gone every 48hrs or so! Tonight is one of my bad nights, feel like crap and my throat and right ear is so sore as well as having a nasty cough which makes every bone in my body ache when I cough! Can't really afford to go back to the Drs so am trying to persevere and plod on but at times it really does get me down. I did take a day off work last week and felt so much better for it but couldn't really afford to take any other time off but am now finding myself agreeing with a dear work collegue in Christchurch who thinks I should take a few days off to just rest and do nothing to recover properly rather than running myself ragged! Think I may take tomorrow off but will see what sort of night I have and how I am in the morning. Though, my bosses grandmother passed away this afternoon so am unsure when he will be away and for how long!
Rachel has also had her fair share of bugs in the last few weeks with one weekend being very scary and almost ending up at the hospital with her. She does seem ok at the moment but on saying that there are chicken pox going around daycare and we noticed a couple of red dots/marks on her face this evening so am guessing that time will tell if she is coming down with them or not. Lets see what the morning holds for us...
Am so over the 5am wake up calls lately! She has always been an early waker, but used to wake and just lay there chatting away to herself but for the last 5 days or so, she wakes at 5am crying and if we lay there seeing if she will go back to sleep she just works herself up more and more. So, it means getting up and giving her a cuddle etc and explaining to her that it is still night time and she should be sleeping. Once I am back in bed, all I can hear is her laughing and chatting away to herself, and then of course my alarm goes off at 5.45am so am losing out on 45 mins sleep each day at the moment and it is really wearing me down! Found myself yelling at her this morning which really upset me so once I had calmed down, I sat down with her and apologised for yelling at her and explained that mummy was very tired and not well and I was so sorry. And then she gave me lots of cuddles and a kiss too! I hate yelling at her but just lost it this morning.
Rachel is also approaching that "terrible 2's" stage, and is very quickly learning the art of tantrum throwing! This is proving very trying for all of us but we are getting there slowly but surely...
It is my Dad's 6th anniversary today and I am missing him so much! Am so sorry that Rachel will never get to know him in person, just all the wonderful stories that she hears about him and the photos we have of him! Mum is away overseas at the moment so am feeling rather lonely family wise right now... Mum is spending 2 weeks in the States (including a 6 day cruise) representing NZ at some senior Petanque tournament. Then she is spending 2 weeks in Ireland with my eldest brother (and his family), then 2 weeks in South Africa with my baby brother (and his family) and then 2 weeks in Melbourne with another brother (and his family) before coming home at the end of August.
Work is extremely busy at the moment as we had a resignation of one of our team members and another one is off on ACC! So we have a temp and another staff member on a secondment so it's pretty full on especially with all the questions that we are getting all day! Have had a couple of interviews for new jobs but unfortunately I missed out on both of them! One of them was a local role and I really, really wanted it but I missed out to someone who had used to temp there so knew the system etc...
Stephan and I both have 2 weeks Annual Leave in August, and had hoped to go away for a few days to Taupo to see a dear friend and her family who used to live in Wellington however the budget is not going to allow this to occur now so it's gonna be a couple of quiet weeks at home but we both need the break away for our respective jobs. Rachel will probably still spend time at daycare but will also keep her home for some of the time to catch up with friends and to do daytrips around the place.
Anyway, I have rambled on for long enough now... so will end with a few photos of Rachel before heading to bed!
4 comments:
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Never mind, we'll catch up in the next lot of the school holidays.
Steff
Oh she gets more and more adorable with each new lot of photos :-)
The tantrum stage isn't exactly fun huh? I learnt early on with Lachlan that the best way to deal with it was to say "mummy doesn't do tantrums" and walk away - he usually gives up pretty quickly.
Sorry to hear you've been unwell for so long, hope things settle down soon and you're back to normal. Hope Rachel doesn't get chicken pox.
Cute, cute, cute!! She is growing up so fast.
Sorry to hear you've been unwell. Also Rachel. Bad time of the year for illnesses.
Shame about the jobs you missed.
Sounds like you have been and are going through a tough time.. hang in there .... summer is coming! Well that's what people have been saying to me, don't know that it helps much... but it's worth a try! Rachel is certainly getting bigger! Terrible two's... hmmmmm..... only if you want to see them that way mate! I always say, you get what you expect, so I reckon Rachel is going to be a real darling through that stage! so there!
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