Hi again,
I start back here as I start to feel better, and work starts to expect me back on full form...slight mistake. I am loving the new job, but it is a much bigger jump than I expected in some ways .
Crazy I'd like to travel but only if I have separate lodgings and bring both cars - both DPs and DMIL are reeling from isolation and health/age issues creeping in, thus more demanding. I gave a full extra week to DMIL last summer alone after a fall, and the same to my DM over Easter after a tummy bug aggravating other things - both of which were time I had earmarked for much needed peace and quiet myself and getting things done here. But houses are even rarer than usual, and more expensive (€1,500 for 6 nights!!) so I don't know.
Fluffy, hopefully the course will be useful. I have done a few different Middletown Centre's courses in Armagh over the years, and they have a lot online now which is useful. But it's often what you hear from other parents, either a realisation that "it's not just me", or practical ideas to try that have worked for them (which may, or may NOT, work for your DC - but can give you something else to try), that are the biggest benefit, and that's hard when the courses are online.
I finally finished off sewing together the 3 stockings I cut out, probably 18 months ago. And got halfway through my box of scouts paperwork (so the recycling is full again). Still not sleeping enough, to the point I pondered driving to Belfast today as Decathlon in Dublin isn't selling the campbed I want anymore to try and guarantee a good sleep this weekend (Cub camp - and they need the only female leader on site but the guys are all warned I will be taking naps).