Hello ladies as per usual your posts have made me laugh out loud, sigh with happiness/sadness and gasp in horror, all in a matter of minutes.
The horror gasp I will addres first. Daisy OMGosh that is just terrible, but I'm not surprised with all you have on your mind at the moment. I'm sure your mum has done a great job but I'm sure she has told you you need it looked at by someone. She could probably keep an eye on it (is she a nurse) I'm pleased there is no nerve damage (oh the horror stories I could tell you about hand nerve damage) but you need to have it properly cleaned and assessed. Again if your mum is a nurse she could do it. I wish I lived near you I have a sad nursey love of doing wound dressings esp tricky ones. Anyway where was I oh yes it is a risk of infection esp if you were cutting meat with the knife. Basically whatever was on the knife will be in that would. Also you want to be sure everything will heal properly andbin it's place you need the dressing to hold your hand in a good position otherwise it may compromise your ability to flex your hand. This is obviously all worst case senario your hand maybe completely fine but you need someone to check this for you. Do you have a walk in clinic or oncall GP. If it's clean it could wait til Monday but if it does need suturing it needs to be done in 48 hrs of the wound.
Now the laugh, SL I was laughing at the image of you DH and your MIL going for a lovely morning walk with her wittering on one side of DH completely oblivious to DH having to forcibly hold you back while you wield a knitting needle or some other instrument good for eye poking.
Oh and is she going a bit senile this childish behavious is quite bizarre.
I love hearing about all the secret Santa gifts, I wish I could have joined in but I'm enjoying hearing what you all recieved, so keep telling, Lady what did you get, unless you want to keep it secret.
We had a lovely chilled day yesterday. The mock lobster was hilarious, unfortunately we didn't take a close up photo of it. It tastes a bit more like Chinese BBQ pork but was nice. I made the boys honey soy chicken sate sticks cos it's DS1's fav at the moment and DS2 loves knawing on the chicken. I also added a small corn cob and mushrooms to his sate stick and he was in heaven, the boy is a corn cob monster, he actually goes a bit feral when he has a corn cob, I swear he would bite my hand off if I tried to take it off him.
I was thinking about what you said about your LOs being opposite Aub. My DS's are the same, DS1 is such a sweet loving gentle thing that rarely cried as baby, while DS2 has quite a scream on him and he's not afraid to use it. I think in our case DS1 is very like his dad and DS2 is like me.
Daisy well done for calling the police. Those poor children it breaks my heart. DH and I had a big fight on Christmas eve and DS1 heard and was really upset. We very rarely fight esp not big ones and so he has never heard much in the way of really harsh words. He was crying and told me he 'didnt like how I was talking to daddy' it made us cool down and resolved the fight (It may have been a bit PMS) but afterwards we were saying how terrible it must be for kids whose parents are fighting all the time.
Oh gotta go sad boy on the loose.