Thursday Fly.. the one where we where we all wish Grouchy good luck in her interview

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And have a collective group hug (don't tell MN)

pick your babystep

mission might have to scroll as i'm not sure i've done this right

well done tigger

7lbs in a week !!crikey thats good going !

I've been failing to lose that amount for the past 4 months...

ruby thats a shame re evening class

Have cleared the clutter on the kitchen windowsill, been to the gym and done some PTA stuff.

Have also got the new Jamie Oliver book (ministry of food) Apart from the annoying intro "Hi Guys" (eugh) the recipies are simple but look really tasty so have ammended my sainbos order for next week accordingly (I do seem to have ordered 6 lemons and a housefull of herbs though )

Right am babbling off to make dc's tea

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oh well I'll try and remember to revive title for next week!
Your day sounds crazy, good news about ed though

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Grouchy - that's great news about DS.

Ruby - tvhat's crap news about your course.

I have cleaned out my understairs cupboard today I bought 20 x plastic shoes boxes and so most of my shoes are now in those. I've also found 4 baby changing bags so plan to freecycle those. Means I no longer have a dumping box in my hall for shoes.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - watch out Mother rant again

I called round this morning to take her shopping and she wasnt up - nothing strange there - apart from she is still in her PJ's from Sunday

She just wants to go to sleep and not wake up. I am so bloody angry. What am I supposed to do. I have a 3 and 2 year old sat in the car, she is in a state. I have spoke to her GP and got her an emergency appointment for tomorrow, but she wont go unless I go with her. DH can not take the morning off - a uncancellable meeting with his boss. My two friends are unavalable too. SO now am going to have to ring outlaws or bloody brother. gah.

She is always bad this time of year, as tomorrow is the anniversary of dads accident (9 years ago) and he was in ITU for 4 weeks under sedition and paralysis utill his death. He was never allowed to regain consiousness. But this is getting out of hand, we have our own family now and life can not revolve round her. Normally she just picks a fight and hides away, this is somewhat different.

I have told her that me and the boys will never forgive her if she takes her own life

Sorry I just needed to get it off my chest. No flying done - just running around after my mad mother and taking the boys to a friends BD party. The poor bithday boyt threw up on the way to the soft play

Ruby She did have some councelling at the time, but my mother thought that they were wrong and that she knew best bla bla bla, which is my mother to a tee. It was agreed that they couldnt help her if she was unwilling to help herself. She wants to wallow in self pity and thinks that everyone should bow to her needs.

She told me once to get over it (dads death) as he was only my father. Mind you this is also the woman who said that if she had her time again she wouldnt bother with having children Only good thing I have done is have children - she adores the boys and they her. Which is whay I want her to get better and am going to put the effort in.

Phew mad she sounds like more than the average needy mother . You are absolutely doing your best for her, she really does need to stand on her own feet. If you were to do anymore it would probably just increase her dependency on you. Hope you can sort something out for tomorrow.

Anne I have always admired people with shoes in plastic boxes .

grouchy reasurring news about ed, you must be relieved.

done:
car retrived from garage
ds reading done
hoovered (finally)
DCs beds changed
need to check igor.

bb tomorrow.

Ruby - send the invites over and I'll take a look. Thank you.

Madhouse - your mum is obviously in a bad place right now and it is right that you feel a sense of need to help her. She clearly needs to talk to someone so I hope that it can be arranged. However, and I dont mean to be unsympathetic but you have a difficult year ahead of you and you need to make sure that you and the boys are the number one priority. Take care

Friday