The Wellyboots Tribe Step Forth - again!!

Mood: happy
Listening to: Caleb snoring!

On Wednesday morning I returned from a 3 and a half day stint in hospital on IV Antibiotics. Having retained bits of membranes after Caleb's birth and had one one-week course of Oral AB's I then felt ok, but kept loosing 'bits' (sorry to be graphic) and eventually got to feeling quite rough. On Saturday evening a lost what looked like a piece of placenta - not big really, but too big too have been hanging around 3 weeks, so I went off up to the out-of-hours GP and ended up staying in. Temp of 38.3 that stayed up, despite the IV's, until late Monday night. I almost had to have a D&C, but escaped it when the consultant decided to scan me first and on scan there was nothing to see and my uterus was a normal size, so I was VERY pleased about that of course!! I hated being in hospital - can't imagine having a baby there (!) - and was bored out of my brain, as well as feeling extremely rough and having to care for Caleb almost single handedly. Being confined to a 7x7 room and not allowed to walk around outside of it with my baby in my arms I found totally restrictive and annoying. I mean how else do you comfort a screaming baby, who has pain in his tummy because of the drugs you are on, but by walking around with him. Trotting him around in a glass box simply didn't cut it with him!! Thankfully come 11pm he does settle for the night (after his bath) until about 3-4am and then doesn't wake again until 7am (ish) - yes, he is a dream baby as far as nights are concerned - and even the unfamiliar environment of the hospital didn't disturb him on that front :) But still I am SO glad to be home!! And I do feel much better now - gladly :)

G. - my summer helper arrived on Monday too (just in time to be thrown in completely at the deepend as Paul's helper!) and she is great. The kids love her and she is going to be an asset I know :)

Also on Monday, P. was supposed to start his new job proper(following his weeks f/t training), but end up having three days off - thankfully they were very understanding - phew! So today was his first real day.

School wise, P. did a good job of holding the fort :)

The plants have been planted for our plants project and we have a window ledge of sprouting peas, pumpkins, tomatoes, sunflowers, water-cress and runner beans!! Pics to follow shortly.

The Egypt lapbook is assembled - well the 'mainstream' history bit is anyway and it's great (in size and character). Just need to put together the 'biblical history' bit (Joesph & Moses) and we're done! Pics will be posted soon on that one too.

We may even yet squeeze in completeing our mini-study of Ireland before the end of term (which we started way back) ;)

Abbie devoured 10 pre-schooly worksheets today covering all the three Rs - completely voluntary, almost unsupervised and 100% correct - and there I was saying she wasn't ready for school yet!

And tommorrow is Friday - aaah, the weekend is nigh...BUT, Saturday morning beckons the arrival of my Sister & Brother-in-law and their 4 children (6, 3, 2 & 6 weeks) for the day and a night - 10 children in the house - hmmm - won't be a peacefull one then that's for sure, but it will be fun!!

Sorry if this blog reads a bit disjointedly - it feels as if it does, but at least I'm up to speed now :)