There's a StarFruit waiting in the Pie.......10/10

[TinyBlueFeather]

Original post by the lovely FrannyandZooey

For anyone who wants to boost their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - If you don't normally eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 mins is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

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Disappointing for you Boco. I might get one on wednesday... I have fire though

I have an appointment at 2. I am having several health isues which are under supervision but things are going awol.

The hyperness is just me......that's why I run. Among other reasons!

I ran this morning too. It was quite good fun actually. Also, I am noticing my general body shape is better.

100x - I have the opposite problem with ds1, he really struggles at school with the work but has a great social life. Perhaps we need to mix them up in a big mixer.

I have made a snowman with ds2. It's very small but perfectly formed with dried blueberries for eyes and nose and banana skin mouth. It goes downhill rom there with smartie buttons.

Schools never close here, all the teachers seem to live in the area and walk.

Yes please to big mixer. Thank you for thoughts everyone. BBee, yes I think you are right. I have to dust down that copy of The Unwritten Rules (which I kept telling Molly to read ) and write a list. Thought that's saying it and there's a part of me that worries that is interfering and damaging? I'll make a list for myself anyway - I originally bought the book to find out what the 'rules' were, I found I didn't know, I just do them.
I feel much better and less bleak this morning. Also school is doing a murder mystery day all day with Y6. Dh has been volunteered and has gone off in a tail coat and orange trousers and ds1 in a bowler hat and shirt! They spend all day interviewing people to find out who did the murder. DS1 thrilled about the whole thing, dh less thrilled, except he does like his orange trousers.

I must get to work. Only pathetic freezing light snow/ice here. DD devastated at lack of snow. I couldn't walk far with JJ this morning, it was soooo cold.

Hope you get some work done Boco. LR and TooT hope you have fun.

100, sorry you're in such emotional turmoil, you know I empathise.
I was just about to post ''you know, there's a marvellous book which Anne keeps banging on about reminding me to read......!''

100, Haught up on thread and my heart went out to you re DS. We have had, are having problems with our DS and he/we are in 'therapy'. I wish I could give an easy answer, but there isn't one. I think for me I helped myself by just learning to accept his problems, love him because of them, and not despite them and then learning his emotional language in order to help him deal with his issues, rather than trying to solve them the way I would.

It hurts, like nothing else.

I capitulated on my principles, i.e letting him have a phone and going on computer every day and interestingly encouraged him to join a drama group.
When people said he was the best thing in the local school play I was SO proud. Because it mattered to him and he has a knack of screwing things up without even trying.

We negotiate a lot and I even give him choices about loss of privilages when he cocks up on a major scale.

He was lonely and very awkward with his friends but that has changed in six months.

I also accepted that whilst I wanted to be his 'friend', there are times when being his mother and being a stong parent was more important. We are closer now than we have ever been, and overall I am immensely pleased with my relationship with him.

I hope things gell together for you. Sometimes it may seem that they never will, and it certainly takes time.

But it can, and does come together and between you. you find a way to let him fly. None of this is in any way a criticism but I hope that in sharing a little you may connect and maybe it will trigger an idea that works for you.

it is so hard becuase every situation is so unique and you scrabble around looking for simliarities and sameness to get clues as to what to do but the bottom line is that it is that child in that family and that school. Then you realise that the clues are not so useful.

And you do the best you can.

And you worry.

You are so right BBee,

But I have found some comfort in the knowledge that despite the uniqueness of each families issues, there are so many of us who go through it and as result understand the language I am speaking.

And then we worry together.

Feather, how are you feeling now?

Well, I met LittleTotallyDelightfulRach and we talked for an hour and a half

Feather come back AT ONCE!
Not that I have been fretting or anything

at your meet-up..glad you both felt brave enough
I am counting the minutes til I finish work and can go sledging with the boys...

Hi, Toot.

Customer has not turned up so I have sort of pottered and done some little jobs and dipped on here and am starting to feel almost human.

So glad you had a nice time.

Am going out soon. Was just closing puter down.

Hope you are feeling OK....

oh sweetie, have one back xxx

How are you doing?

sort of y'know

How are you?

i want to talk to you sometime about what doc said...

i have fb up, if you're about now

can't fb at work

Laters x

xx

Mango go to the doctor you don't have to take ABs even if advised, at least you would get a diagnosis

TooT and LR* glad meet up fun

TWF hope you are feeling better

at all hot chocolate. we have snow and total paralysis of all of world but I work from home so have on excuse did make a snowman though to add to the other 43 in the park! hard to work with DS at home cos nursery shut!

Hi Daisy, it is always lovely to catch up with you. I hope you are well.

And Molly.... 'ey-up!'

Oh, what do I do? I have something else that needs meds and should apparently be 'taking it easy' if not spending a large amount of time in bed!

How?

I don't do 'taking it easy'

I need to be on the go but don't want to impede my recovery. I don't even sit down to MN for long, but jump up and down and do stuff, or hoover or knit, or make soup..How?

And I can't afford it, and have two active DC's. I have to work to sustain my meds bill at the mo!

And a house to help run.

I am happy when I am on the go and busy.

Bah...grump....the doc laughed at me...

Errr, has anyone seen we need a new thread..

Hello Daisy

Sorry Mango, I missed your concerns. Do you know that dairy and wheat can exacerbate coughs'n'things? If you're concerned though, there is no harm in asking a doctor. You don't have to do anything they say.

Hello Feather

Why did doc laugh at you? Does he need smacking?