Davies had a better night although I didn’t sleep very well as I kept waking to blow my nose. I was woken by Scarlett coming to tell me that Davies was being sick 🙁 He wasn’t, he was just coughing up flem but still not the most delightful start to the day.
I made breakfast for everyone and just about managed to remain cheerful and hostessy until 11am when Lynda and Stuart headed off for Manchester. It really has been lovely to see them and Scarlett particularly has loved every minute but it was just really poor timing that Davies was ill and Ady worked really late both nights too which didn’t really help when I was struggling to keep all the balls in the air and have my parents around lots adding to the burden rather than easing it.
Davies fell asleep on the sofa for pretty much the whole morning and while staying quite floppy for this afternoon he has managed a fairly good sized dinner, had a shower and clean pjs and was asleep peacefully in bed by the unheard of early hour of about 830pm! I’m hoping he’ll get a good nights sleep and wake tomorrow back to himself. And of course crossing my fingers, while fearing the worst, that Scarlett doesn’t go down with it next.
Scarlett really struggled with the lack of her playmate and the loss of two adults who she has had the lions share of the attention from and really wanted me to give her all my attention. I wasn’t really feeling up to it and wanted to get the house back in some sort of order so was rolling up sleeping bags, deflating camping mats, changing bed linen and processing laundry and was short tempered with her which caused her to sob at me ‘you just don’t want me around’ and flee to her room in a manner most befitting her name :(. So we sat in her room for about an hour and gave it a really good tidy up in there, chatting as we went, which placated her, poor thing 🙁
Davies then woke up and she set his DS up for him to play with her and they sat happily for a couple of hours doing that together on the sofa. I finished making the house look like ours again and then slumped. Ady came home and I very quickly realised I was being a bitch to everyone so took myself off to the bedroom to read my book and recover. I came back after about half an hour and tried to make a start on an online course I’m doing on healthy eating but it was refusing to work on firefox and I was getting increasingly cross with it. I eventually opened it in IE but then Ady and the children kept trying to talk to me about various inane things even though I’d asked them all just to leave me alone so I stropped off to bed again.
I wasn’t there very long before both kids appeared and we sat playing Gardening Mama on Tarly;s DS together until Ady called them for tea and me for a bath he’d very kindly run. I felt much better after that, have managed a bit of a start on the course, finally finished flickring, watched The Apprentice and had a nice dinner.
I’m working tomorrow afternoon but as I’m having my appraisal rather than actually working in the library unless I feel really dreadful or one of the children isn’t up to being left with my Mum I’m intending going in. I’ve got a hot cinnamon tea laced with honey, lemon and a large brandy after which I’m off to bed in the hopes of sleeping it all off and waking in my own bed in the morning to a house where everyone feels better.
hope today has some improvement 🙂