Blimey - what a week! So Millie was desperate to make it in to school on Wednesday as it was "space day" and a chance to dress up! Shaun and her had spent the past couple of weekends on and off conjuring up her space costume of all the planets...........so out came the paints, making papier mache etc etc.....oooh yes......plenty of mess! but a spectacular result: :-)
Having been so poorly on Monday, I spent a night worrying about her temperature and checking on her regularly throughout the night......only to find in the morning she seemed to have made the most miraculous recovery! It was amazing...............anyway we finally get ourselves dressed and pop round the corner to pay the doctors bill from the previous evening - on entering the surgery the doctor jsut happened to be at the reception and he seemed so pleased to see us saying he didn't have our phone number and he wanted to call us as he was having nightmares about Millie and I think he thought she was coming down with pneumonia or something equally nasty! He thought we were coming back in because she was still so poorly!! On hearing that she seemed to have made a turnaround recovery and we were just there to pay the bill.........he replied "oh yes - pay my bill of course of course"!!!!!!! i think the poor guy had forgotten all about the bill! Anyway - it was nice to have a ind of caring sharing kind of experience from the locals! (Although him telling me we were neighbours and he could see my house from his window and then detailing events like we had a new satellite dish, kids bouncing on the trampoline etc etc made me think I must be more careful a bout what I do with the shutters open in the future if we have a resident spy - his house is above the doctors surgery!!!!!!!!!)
Anyway - i let Millie go to school for her space day and it was the 100th day of being in 1st grade (and there were sweets etc on offer...........when has Millie EVER been one to miss out on anything where sweets are involved!!!!!) Unfortunately when I went to pick her up (thankfully Wed is a short day and they finish early!) she looked like she could hardly drag her feet along the ground poor love so since then we have been at home watching films (oh yes - i can watch the sound of music as many times as you like!!!), playing games, taking afternoon naps and painting nails!! all in all quite a ncie week really :-) Millie has now it seems turned a corner and is on the mend finally! Think she might even be up for a few mornings of school this week :-)
Amidst all these goings on - of course we had our first book group meeting :-) Can't remember whether I mentioned in a previous post (sorry to bore you all if I have but too lazy to go back and check!!!!!) but Cathy (a Seattle amazon-wife who also arrived here last summer) and I felt like we wanted to make our own group of kind of down to earth girlies for a bit of a social/chat etc etc etc. So we formed a group of other waifs and strays who recently arrived and in the end we were 8. I agreed to host first (bit of a nightmare in the end as Shaun away, girls sick and didn't get back home from picking conor up from cubs until 7.50pm and they were arriving at 8pm! and I had all kids to get in bed!) anyway I managed it somehow and everyone got a drink (I hope!!) and it was a huge success (apparently - as I got plenty of mails the next day saying what a great group everyone thought it was!) so that was a big smiley face for the week....oh yes and we did choose a book for the next meeting (the Other Hand......yes I know you girls from my old book club we read it but a couple of others were really keen and it also means I'm under no pressure to read a book for next meeting - i can just skim read to remind myself!!!! hee heee)
.......needless to say it was the next night when the lurgey seemed to have got to me too!!!! By Friday I'm shivering my way through the day (not helped by having to be up 4 times in the night!!) and can't wait to get the kids (and myself!) in bed and for Shaun to finally get home! Oh yes - and to top it all I have my French lesson on a Friday afternoon and daren't cancel at short notice for risk of losing out (bloody expensive business!!!!!) so i persevere..........for a 1.30pm start......by 1.45pm no show and I'm making my way upstairs to bed instead just as I hear the door go........damn! anyway - it was a good lesson in the end......even if i was curled up on the sofa trying to recite verbs!
So it's a quiet weekend this end which no-one seems to have been complaining about!! We were meant to be skiing this afternoon with a couple of other families at some mega long indoor snow ski slope in France..... but I'm sort of getting used to spending my days in the house!!!!! although still haven't managed to get all my gel nails off.....3 to go.................how do you get the bloody things off?!!?!?!?!
Ruby's birthday this week so Millie has been planning her teddy bear's picnic and choosing the cake we are going to make her (which is all fine but she wants to do these building blocks with coloured icing, her name and "1" and the rest........what are the chances of being able to find ready-to-roll icing in this god-forsaken shopping place and coloured stuff at that!!!!!!!) Think we'll be conjouring up our own little substitute!!!!
Ruby's walking progress? well to say she had a pot on her leg for 3 weeks I think she's doing great............on her feet constantly and can stand on her own for fairly lengthy periods.........think it'll still be a while before she can catch Conor!!!!!
Can't remember if we ever showed Ruby in her pot..................
nothing stopped her getting around!!!!!
Having been so poorly on Monday, I spent a night worrying about her temperature and checking on her regularly throughout the night......only to find in the morning she seemed to have made the most miraculous recovery! It was amazing...............anyway we finally get ourselves dressed and pop round the corner to pay the doctors bill from the previous evening - on entering the surgery the doctor jsut happened to be at the reception and he seemed so pleased to see us saying he didn't have our phone number and he wanted to call us as he was having nightmares about Millie and I think he thought she was coming down with pneumonia or something equally nasty! He thought we were coming back in because she was still so poorly!! On hearing that she seemed to have made a turnaround recovery and we were just there to pay the bill.........he replied "oh yes - pay my bill of course of course"!!!!!!! i think the poor guy had forgotten all about the bill! Anyway - it was nice to have a ind of caring sharing kind of experience from the locals! (Although him telling me we were neighbours and he could see my house from his window and then detailing events like we had a new satellite dish, kids bouncing on the trampoline etc etc made me think I must be more careful a bout what I do with the shutters open in the future if we have a resident spy - his house is above the doctors surgery!!!!!!!!!)
Anyway - i let Millie go to school for her space day and it was the 100th day of being in 1st grade (and there were sweets etc on offer...........when has Millie EVER been one to miss out on anything where sweets are involved!!!!!) Unfortunately when I went to pick her up (thankfully Wed is a short day and they finish early!) she looked like she could hardly drag her feet along the ground poor love so since then we have been at home watching films (oh yes - i can watch the sound of music as many times as you like!!!), playing games, taking afternoon naps and painting nails!! all in all quite a ncie week really :-) Millie has now it seems turned a corner and is on the mend finally! Think she might even be up for a few mornings of school this week :-)
Amidst all these goings on - of course we had our first book group meeting :-) Can't remember whether I mentioned in a previous post (sorry to bore you all if I have but too lazy to go back and check!!!!!) but Cathy (a Seattle amazon-wife who also arrived here last summer) and I felt like we wanted to make our own group of kind of down to earth girlies for a bit of a social/chat etc etc etc. So we formed a group of other waifs and strays who recently arrived and in the end we were 8. I agreed to host first (bit of a nightmare in the end as Shaun away, girls sick and didn't get back home from picking conor up from cubs until 7.50pm and they were arriving at 8pm! and I had all kids to get in bed!) anyway I managed it somehow and everyone got a drink (I hope!!) and it was a huge success (apparently - as I got plenty of mails the next day saying what a great group everyone thought it was!) so that was a big smiley face for the week....oh yes and we did choose a book for the next meeting (the Other Hand......yes I know you girls from my old book club we read it but a couple of others were really keen and it also means I'm under no pressure to read a book for next meeting - i can just skim read to remind myself!!!! hee heee)
.......needless to say it was the next night when the lurgey seemed to have got to me too!!!! By Friday I'm shivering my way through the day (not helped by having to be up 4 times in the night!!) and can't wait to get the kids (and myself!) in bed and for Shaun to finally get home! Oh yes - and to top it all I have my French lesson on a Friday afternoon and daren't cancel at short notice for risk of losing out (bloody expensive business!!!!!) so i persevere..........for a 1.30pm start......by 1.45pm no show and I'm making my way upstairs to bed instead just as I hear the door go........damn! anyway - it was a good lesson in the end......even if i was curled up on the sofa trying to recite verbs!
So it's a quiet weekend this end which no-one seems to have been complaining about!! We were meant to be skiing this afternoon with a couple of other families at some mega long indoor snow ski slope in France..... but I'm sort of getting used to spending my days in the house!!!!! although still haven't managed to get all my gel nails off.....3 to go.................how do you get the bloody things off?!!?!?!?!
Ruby's birthday this week so Millie has been planning her teddy bear's picnic and choosing the cake we are going to make her (which is all fine but she wants to do these building blocks with coloured icing, her name and "1" and the rest........what are the chances of being able to find ready-to-roll icing in this god-forsaken shopping place and coloured stuff at that!!!!!!!) Think we'll be conjouring up our own little substitute!!!!
Ruby's walking progress? well to say she had a pot on her leg for 3 weeks I think she's doing great............on her feet constantly and can stand on her own for fairly lengthy periods.........think it'll still be a while before she can catch Conor!!!!!
Can't remember if we ever showed Ruby in her pot..................
nothing stopped her getting around!!!!!
and the day it was taken off!!!!!
Hope you've all had a good weekend!
Loving Millie's space costume...maybe Shaun should have been a Blue Peter presenter?
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