Hellllooooooooo
Alice - your new house sounds absolutely wonderful!
Dal & Inzi - Mairwen isn't necessarily the really messy one in our house - that tends to be Rhydian [sigh] ... he dropped yogurt all over Mairwen's beanbag yesterday, and he's been banned from eating in the front room as we kept finding bits of his breakfast in the sofa [grrr]
M's quite tidy by comparison!
Have just finished writing a letter to nursery telling them that we're withdrawing her from mid-July - our wonderful CM has a 3-days-a-week space, so we're going to try that again. Hopefully now she's older she'll settle. My (wonderful) mum has offered to do the other 2 days a week - paying the nursery fees has been ... well, this is what I wrote in the letter:
There are 2 reasons we have decided to do this: the first being practical ? the childminder who looks after our son has informed us that she has a space for Mairwen from September. There are very few childminders who do drop off and pick up at Pen Y Garth, so we need to take the place when it becomes available. The second reason is financial: we have found the financial burden of paying for a nursery place, as inflexible as it is, being paid full-time without taking into account the fact that we do not need a school holiday place, and the above-inflationary rise in fees this May, financially crippling.
I really hope it doesn't come across as too whingy!
Those of you who see me on FB will have seen that the labyrinthitis has made an unwelcome return ... only as I'm still bf, they can't give me the drugs I usually have, so I'm trying a different one. It's making me really tired as I have to concentrate to stay upright ... I'm a bl00dy liability!
Right, off to recline again - my neck is hurting from me sitting upright!
Speak soon!