Babies Born November 2006 #38

[taralee]

Happy Birthday Christy! you just take care of yourself, we'll hold the fort here. hope you had a good day

Jealous Jols! send a non-alcoholic (blech!) glass my way!
Kim -jealous again!!!!! oh i soooooo need a massage. we have a beautiful big spa at our house but i'm too scared to use it! i think i've used it twice in the year that we lived here..the last time was the night before i went into labour with evie....go figure!

Not a lot going on here....evie's happy so i'm happy. i've managed to do lots of cooking the last few days - evie seems secure enough in her new home that she'll busy herself while i'm busy. shes just found a torch so thats keeping her ever so amused!!

Gigi - i was thinking about you today, when you said you don't do a lot of cooking is it because you're too tired or bilby is too much of a handful. i couldnt do anything cos evie was so clingy but i gave her some cooking utensils like a sieve and plastic spoons and metal bowls and she was happy "copying mummy" - have you tried something like that? i just know how much better u can feel if you can get something done!!!

[Gigi]

Happy Birthday Christy - you're not slack, you're full on doing the best you can. Condolences to you for your FIL's passing.

Blanche, how is your gran doing?

Kim - that full body massage sounds like a perfect tonic for stressed out mummies everywhere, Craig is very good with gift selection.

We survived a Fairy Bread Zone yesterday, a one year old's birthday party, exhausting trying to keep the under twos safe from the extrememly boisterous much bigger kids. I got the Fairy skirt i'd been making for the little girl's present done, really simple for a proper crafty person, but a real achievement for someone like me who is just learning.

TaraLee - i'm not cooking cos i feel overwhelmed and yes, am constantly tired, keep getting sick too. We have a tiny kitchen and very often there is no free counter space to even spread some toast, let alone prepare/cut up vegies etc. (I would love to cook some stirfry veg n noodles). It's a really tiny kitchen, i cannot keep up with the dishes. Dh cooks sausages and veg and uses ALOT of dishes to do that and spreads them all out and leaves them on the stovetop. So i guess if i walked into a clear space with ROOM to cook, i would stand a better chance. I've had a brain injury so get overwhelmed quite easily, lose focus, i need no distractions to get things done. So just bilby grizzling in the background can put me off. Pathetic huh, i realise no kid is going to keep quiet and amuse themselves, i wish i could block it out. I have some physical problems too, so sometimes i am not able to grasp objects safely enough to cook safely. I reserve my strength for holding the squimy and throw herself back alot bilby, she seems to need picking up alot, my wrists go click click alot.

By the time i have done three loads of dishes to clear some space, it's 10pm and i'm too exhausted to think about cooking by then.

On Thursday, i had an opportunity to go and buy fruit and veg (parenting support volunteer offered to stay with bilby at a playground for an hour so i could go and shop), so i rushed and got $40 worth of fresh stuff. So nice to have that in the house again. I really crave salad vegies esp. Has been months and months since a proper f&v shop like that has happened. We've been buying say, five bananas with the supermarket shop, and potatoes, pumpkin but not much more than that.