teru - Have you confirmed the pregnancy? How's the shop preparation going?

Hi to everyone else. Hope you and your LO are all well!

I'm home today from work cos poor M is very sick. She was odd for a couple of days - not eating as much, grisly and suddenly crying for no reason at times. Then yesterday she slept for three hours at nap time and woke screaming. So I went to get her and realised she was burning up, took temp and she had a fever of 39.2. She's never really had much of a fever before. This is probably the sickest she's ever been. She's so lethargic, which is so unlike her! She keeps lying down and shoving her thumb in her mouth for rests. And she wouldn't eat anything until I finally worked out she'll eat toast with butter. I took her to the doctors and he said that her throat is red raw and must be killing her. So I've been giving her panadol and ibuprofen (swapping between them), which makes her a bit happier but still not herself. Poor girl.

Last week I had a shocking two days at work. On Thursday I had to leave home at 7am and didn't get home till 8pm, doing classes in the morning and then PT interviews in the afternoon and evening. My last interview was a very rude mother, who was rude to her daughter and rude to me. So I left feeling frustrated after that and then was upset cos I didn't see Maya ALL DAY! That was tough. I saw her on Weds night and then didn't see her till Friday afternoon. And Friday was tough cos it was swim sports that got all rained out so we had to come up with new things to do that the kids all whinged about all day long. We were giving them options like watching videos and playing games but they wanted us to let them go home. gee you'd think they'd rather do work!

M seems to be adjusting to CC but now that she'll miss this week I dunno how it'll effect next week? Thurs she is still finding difficult probably cos of the long time away from CC in between, but Fridays she is doing somewhat better. But it's good to see some progress there.