Feeling slightly better…

Although bereft at waving Ady off an hour ago knowing I won’t see him again until Thursday night 🙁

He was indeed a total superhero and attended to Tarly in the night when she woke so I did get a semi-decent night’s sleep which seems to have done the trick in shaking off the worst of the bird flu. Of course I imagine I will bring about a relapse by drinking lots tonight and then having to deal with her if she wakes loads tonight, but I imagine it will be worth it!

Checked my email first thing to find an email which had come in the night from my friend in NZ – she moved back there three years ago this week so has never even met Scarlett. I worked with her at Bhs 6/7 years ago, she was the Restaurant Manager and I was the Ladieswear and Menswear Manager, we bonded over having the same colour hair, similar natured husbands, a mutual love of dry white wine and a hatred for our jobs! She was hugely supportive while I had a nightmare time there before finally leaving and as she has a daughter 4 years older than Davies she was also a huge support when I was pregnant and first had him. 3 years is a long time and we had moved up to Manchester a year before that so despite regular emails, letters and phonecalls we are pretty out of date with each others lives now. Ironically as we both knew each other first when we were ‘career women’ she has just emailed me to say she has finally given up her job and is now loving being a housewife – I think when we next speak we might just have recaptured some of the getting where the other one is in life again feeling as I know she struggled with the whole Home Ed and being at home generally thing while I struggled with her chatter about working for an employer. Now we’ll be able to exchange recipe ideas and tips for getting really tough stains out of the carpet and the limescale off the bathroom taps!! 😉 Anyway the email made me cry as it mentioned how much she misses me still and as well as reminding me how much I also miss her it also made me realise that I don’t see anyone regularly now who knew me well before I had children.

But anyway, the sun is shining, Tarly and I are both feeling better today, we’re heading off later to Where the days go Ali’s and I’m looking forward to tonight. Hell, those three loads of washing which got drenched in the nighttime downpour of rain might even get dried today – it’s going to be a good one!