Many congratulations to Creena. Great news. Come back soon and tell all.
Happy birthday S&J!
VG&T (that's vast g&t), I don't know how you do it. I really don't. I am physically tired at the end of the day, but more than that, I am emotionally worn out. I don't know how you cope with 7, soon to be 8 people making emotional demands of you. It's exhausting. I was trying to explain to DH (and to myself I suppose), why I have become less and less affectionate to him. I think it's because by the time he gets home, I'm worn out with being touched all the time, never mind putting everyone else first. It's hard enough to give him my attention in the evening, never mind affection. I think it will pass, but it's HARD. I mean, the logistics of your days are mind-boggling, but I don't know how you manage the other stuff. You're amazing!
Tayto Cheese & Onion, mixed in with a bag of Manhattan popcorn and some salted peanuts. It's carb heaven. I can now get Chocolate Kimberley biscuits in the corner shop, but funnily enough, much as I love them, I don't buy them there, because it just seems wrong. Did you have any red lemonade? And you eat any Irish Cadbury's chocolate? It's better in Ireland you know. It's the Dublin water. It's really soft so you get gorgeous chocolate made with it. Little confectionery factoid: Did you know that Flakes can only be made in Dublin, as you have to have the soft water for the crumbly flakiness. There y'are now.
I'd better have some dinner before I go snack hunting. Have lost 3lbs since Monday by cutting out cakes and biscuits etc. Can you believe it? Imagine how much I was eating before! Have limited my bread a bit, as I refuse to replace butter with some plastic resin which has a notional resemblance only to the real thing. Otherwise am eating pretty normally. I start with my personal trainer tomorrow evening. I want to try to lose 3lbs a week until I go to Belfast so I can at least be under 11 stone by then. Will be doing two really hard training sessions, plus running (read: jogging/ walking) with S at least once a week. Was quite ashamed when doing a yougov poll about childhood obesity, I realised what little exercise she gets. She's not fat, by any measure, but I do worry that when she stops growing upwards, she'll grow outwards. It happened to me and given the number of sweet wrappers that fall out of the tumble dryer after her clothes have been in there, she's got my sweet tooth. Anyhoo, have told her that we're going running/jogging/ walking on Saturday morning and will try to find time to get her to do an exercise vid with me during the week.
Very sorry for Cod.
Poor A woke up crying at about 5.30 this morning. I lay there and listened and she went back to sleep after a while. When I went up at 7ish when she woke up properly, she had snot all over her face and hair and her hair had dried into the face snot so that she had a curtain of hair stuck over her face. I felt SOOOO guilty for not going up at 5.30. It did look very funny though. Poor kid. I've tied her hair back tonight, just in case! I worry that her head will get sore if I do that at night, but I might tie loose bands in it in future. Whenever I go in at night she's asleep in a curtain of hair. It would drive me bonkers... She slept for a mammoth 4 hours today in the travel cot in the living room. I brought it down to keep O safe from her, but she likes to get in it. She seems to like feeling "contained" sometimes. She's so busy all the time, I think it might be a sort of relief to not be able to go anywhere. She likes to sit in her buggy too, sometimes and read books. She watches a bit of telly now too. I record Big Barn Farm, ITNG and Postman Pat and she's distracted by them at least, if not actually watching. I'm not impressed by the new Postman Pat... Special Delivery Service indeed.
