Wow! PLP congratulations on getting Cerys into a modelling agency, that's amazing! I guess it's the kind of thing most parents would love for their babe to be involved in, including myself, as it's recognition of your baby's total gorgeousness! (((beams))) for you! (Just hope it can all be sorted around that fee though, do you think they'll still do it without you having to pay? Let us know as soon as you know, fingers crossed for you hun!).
Well done on the check up and everything too, it all sounds like it's going the right way now!
Anywho, as promised, thought I'd give you the run through of my day from hell yesterday. . . It all started at 6:45 am, I was perfectly organised for the day ahead. Everything was planned down to the tiniest detail, this is where it all goes wrong, you inject the child element (not the baby, babies pretty much have to do what they're told or they can just sit and cry and you can carry on lol). 7:30 am, I get DD1 up, changed settled on the sofa and, as a treat and because I want things to go smoothly, I set her breakfast on her lap whilst she watches Beebies, fine.
I leave the room for more organising and rounding up of gear for the day, come back and she says she's done with breakfast, fine. I ask her to go and get her shoes, as I take her breakfast and turn to go to the kitchen, she dashes out in front of me to get her shoes then just stops and decides she's going to go slower than an OAP taking a tortoise for a walk, so I try and get round her, impossible, hallway is too small for manoeuvring. So, stuck behind dawdling tot with bowl in hand running ever more pressing matters through my brain I lose it and start pushing her towards the stairs where her shoes are, this, obviously, has the opposite effect to that which I am trying to achieve and she sits in the middle of the hallway and sulks.
FINE!! I step over her and carry on. . .
So, finally, I have everything ready except Lolly's coat, I have put DD's shoes and coat on her and she's wandering round the front room, obviously bored, but we've got less than five minutes to get out of the door before the bus arrives!
So I'm looking for Lolly's coat, expecting it not to be in the designated place and just slung over a chair or something, wandering around ever more aware that the clock is ticking and that, once I'm at the bus stop I will have to get DD out of the pushchair and put it down (with Lolly in the carrier), so stressing ever more!
Of course I finally find Lolly's coat, on the coat hook under the stairs because, that's right, I was organised enough last night to think that I should put it in the right place so I'd know exactly where to find it when I need it! !
So, it's now 8:05 am and the bus is due at 8:07 and I know for a fact that I've missed it or that I wont make it and I'm in floods of tears as I'm not coping and all this has been going on with DH asleep upstairs because he doesn't have to get up until 8 am for work (he's, by now, making his way down the stairs and asking what's wrong), so, instead of making my way out the door, I tell him and ask him to just phone a taxi as I blatantly need to calm down (and drink my cold tea. . . but I did manage to have breakfast, which never happens nowadays!).
So, taxi organised to arrive at 8:30, to take me straight to the creche, DH has to leave for work at 8:30 so I decide, as I've already packed my door key in the bag, that I'll leave the house at the same time and just wait outside with the girls. . . 8:45 and no sign of the taxi, next breakdown on it's way!!
So, I rummage for that key which I didn't want to go rummaging for in the first place, get back in the house, phone taxi rank and ask where he is?! Reply "He's between O and H* now" (We live on H road in O***. . . so he's gone too far then! But this particular taxi firm know exactly where we live as I get a regular taxi when I'm babysitting for a friend ) and, whilst talking on the phone, I see a taxi go past!
Ok, so the guy finally arrives at 8:53, I need to be on the opposite side of town at 9 am and it's market day so traffic is terrible (as he is already aware as it took him this long to get to us and we're less than 3 miles from town! lol) so I tell him that he's got to do some impressive driving without managing to kill any of his passengers (which, thankfully, he took very well, probably because I managed to say it with a , not entirely sure how I did that though! lol)
Anywho, we get there at 9:05, driver gets a £2 tip, girls are booked in, and I'm off for a driving lesson. . . in which I nearly try to take out a 4 x 4. . . now, which do you think would've come better off in that one?! Subconscious suicide attempt?! Quite possibly!
Anyway, despite said near death experience, instructor marked me really well, even doing better than my first lesson two weeks back, which I didn't think possible in my state!
Right, so driving lesson done, next is to get DD to school. . . pick up girls from creche, Lolly's asleep in the stroller (which btw I decided to leave the rain cover at home as I knew that, if it didn't rain and I'd have to try and get on the bus home it'd be one more thing to carry and I'd already have my hands full ), so DD's walking, fine.
Until Lolly wakes up, a bit grumpy and DD wants to get in the stroller, fine.
I get the carrier out and strap myself in, pick Lolly up who is SOAKING WET !!!!! Is it too much for creche staff to be trained in child care ?!!! So, ever so slightly p**d off, Lolly's finally strapped into the carrier and DD is happy in the stroller and I'm marching across town as quick as I can, despite the fact that I've got 45 minutes to get there I'm panicking, yet again! So, I give in and catch a bus from town to the school (don't care DH is paying for it ).
So, DD booked in, Lolly changed (thank you school staff for being so understanding that, not only am I early and have interrupted the singing that's going on but have taken over the toilets too ), who was not quite as wet as I had thought
So, it's 12 pm and I can relax as I have got nearly 2 hours before I drop Lolly off and go for my job interview! Time for lunch in Starbucks (can you tell Dh was still paying for the day?!! lol that fool gave me his card as I needed to pick up nappies for DD!)
So, lunch over and Lolly's had a whole jar of pureed fruity-ness and some of her milk so I'm happy that she'll be good for me friend. I drop her off, have my interview, in which I am the epitome of calm and organization! (If only they knew eh?!) and off I go to pick up DD from school. . . it starts to rain whilst I'm walking so I'm now thinking about Lolly in the stroller, who's probably under cover by now, but also that I've got to get DD back into town and then catch the bus, with shopping, putting the stroller down, with wet wheels, and arms full of change bag, nappies, driving lesson folder and DD's lunchbox as none of it can be in the stroller when it goes down otherwise it wont go down! .
Anywho, pick up DD, get bus back into town, to wet, to far to carry DD, and she's tired (but was, apparently, AMAZINGLY good and the key skills teacher is astonished at how advanced she is for her age and there were even some 4/5 YO's that had trouble keeping up with her!!! (((beams amazingly with pride)))! )
So, back in town, I meet up with my friend who's had Lolly, who's been a good girl and is now napping on friend's shoulder Awww! My friend has been so good, and even popped into Pound land and picked up one of those cheapy rain covers for me too (can't thank her enough for that!) so, just enough time for a quick coffee before heading off to catch the bus. . . Oh, that's right, I've just spent my last bit of change on the coffee, typical! So, go to cash point and hope to goodness the driver will let me on with only a ten pound note as it's now 5 minutes to catch the bus and a queue has formed so I can't hang around and get change.
Luckily the driver let's me on but I take forever to get the stroller on (I didn't take all the junk out of the bottom of it and so it's not down properly but hey ho, it fits into the compartment just about!), finally on way home and so tired you just would not believe!
Get off the bus, DD's faery blanket falls on the floor so that has to go in the bottom of the stroller and a little bit of a tired tantrum ensues, fine. Get to the bottom of the tiny road that we live on and the rain cover gets caught under the front wheels and whips under the stroller, fine I'll go back and pick it up once the girl's are settled in doors, but this has annoyed DD, as she's getting a bit wet, and the cover was sort of keeping the change bag up so this has dropped slightly and is touching her head, so temper flares up again. So, last bit of the journey and I'm strolling uphill, can hear plastic cover flapping in the wind behind me lol, DD winging she's getting wet, Lolly's in the carrier under my coat so is immersed in darkness and having a bit of a funny 2 minutes as she obviously can hear DD and wants to know what she's going on about, the bag which the nappies are in is starting to tear, so faster, faster now, we're nearly at the door and. . . that's it folks! I'm home I'm finally HOME!!!!!
I can't tell you just how tired I was, it was nearly 5 pm, Lolly went straight to bed, no fuss, and DD even agreed to go too. Just as I was about doze off on the sofa the call of nature, and then Dh got home with, you guessed it, a headache and complained that he had had a really bad day (and yet he didn't bring home any chocolate?!! How very dare he?!!!) but he didn't mind that I'd spent about £40 odd so I forgive him! lol (In fact he probably had more reason to complain than I did, his manager decided to go home at half 4, the start of their busiest period of the day, without telling him, on only his 2nd day in the new job!! I just don't get some people!)
Needless to say I gave myself a bit of a break today and decided that we weren't going to tot's group this morning as I had an appointment at the hospital at half one and I didn't know if I'd have enough time to get home, sort lunch and get up there, so gave myself the morning off (to try and catch up on washing etc, that's my idea of a morning off?! )
Cant wait for tomorrow, DD's in school again in the afternoon so I can have a couple of hours at a friends house that I haven't seen for ages and she makes the best chai in the world!!
Anywho, would you look at this mess?! I'll leave you guys to go through it at your leisure! (was tempted to post it in parts to break it up a bit for you all but I'm sure you'll skim it if you like!
Ooh Fingers crossed I get the job, it might just cover the cost of the girl's weekly costs (creche, school, bus etc!).
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