Son's 1st Day at Nursery

So today is the day! My little boy is off to nursery for the very first time. Where have the three and a half years gone?

I am sure he will be fine if his settling in seasons were anything to go by. At everyone he has been the first child through the door. The last one that he went to was last Thursday and I felt like a spare part. I didn't know what to do with myself. He just got on with playing and making friends. He even went to nursery in his school uniform.  He is so excited that I have needed to stop him sneeking in to nursery until his start day. The nursery stagger the start days so the first group started on Friday.

As he know the school so well, his sister was in the nursery last year, he just goes off and plays until it is time to go in.

So no I am all on my own, I think I might cry. He is getting so big.

Ambulance trip yesterday

Well what a shock I had yesterday.  My little boy fell over in the school playground, he doesn't start until Wednesday,  while waiting for his sister to finish school.

All I heard was the thud then nothing, then crying but he didn't get up. I dropped everything I was carrying and picked him up. There was blood streaming down his face and a pool of blood where I had picked him up from.

Me an another mum ran him to my daughter's classroom where her keyworker put a cold compress on his head which was still spurting blood all over me and my son who was crying his eyes out. I was then taken to the head teachers office were we looked at the wound but he was so covered in blood that you could not see where it was comming from.

We were then joined by my sons keyworker who is first aid trained and the decision was made that he needed to go to hospital and an ambulance was called. Which got there so quick. They put a bandage on his head and took a few details down. Then we headed to the ambulance where they put some stickers on him and attached him to a monitor to check his heart and blood pressure. We then were taken to hospital.

Here I must say how good the school were in sorting everything out and getting my daughter sorted and taken to a friend's house while my son and me went off to the hospital. 

At the hospital I was given some wipes to clean the blood of his face. Then after a short while my husband arrived. The school had called him while we were waiting for the ambulance.  My son at this point was playing with the toys in the children's waiting area. Soon after we were called into see the nurse, who took more vitals and looked at the wound. She gave him some calpol and ibuprofen which would help when my son was glued back together.  She also said that we could use the hospital shower to clean all the blood off his hair, as there was so much. I know that head woulds bleed but this was so much more than I was expecting.

We then had to wait for the doctor to see him. After the doctor saw him we were given towels to go shower him. Now he hates showers at the best of times. This was no exception, the screaming was emence. But we got all the blood off him. The cut itself was so tiny but it had gone deep and cought a vain which is why it had bleed so badly. When we got back from the shower we had to wait for a nurse to glue him back together. 

When we were called in the nurse cleaned up the wound as it had started to bleed again but this time much slower. And she then glued it back together.  I will say that the wound is so so very small. After all this we were finally let home with instructions to keep an eye on him for 6 hours.

So that is one stressful afternoon. But with my son I fear it will not be the last time!

Daughters First Week of Big School

So the first week of big school has ended and it has been a weeks of ups and downs.

First I ask my daughter what she has done every day and her reply was 'nothing' she used to say that when she was in nursery but I didn't think she would carry on in Reception.

Then she decided that she wanted to go to the park and when I said no she through one hell of a hissy fit, something that she has not done before.  I am putting it down to tiredness from being at school full time.

Today she has come home with her first home work, which is to read a book called Drat That Fat Cat and we have to fill in her reading record.

She also has show and tell every Wednesday and next weeks theam is A favourite story, rhythm,  poem or book. The book that she has chose is Goodbye Mog, she loves this book since I bought it after our cat Jezebel died at the beginning of the year.
It is such a lovely story and explains the death of a pet really well.

First week down loads more to go!

First day at big school

Well tomorrow is the day, my little girl is off to big school.

Last year she was at the nursery at the big school but this will be her first day where she will be going every day, all day.
She has said she wants pack lunch so tonight I'll be making her first proper lunch in her new Hello Kitty lunch bag.

Today I spent time putting her name in her school uniform. Packing her PE kit and making sure I have everything she could need.

I also took her to the hairdressers for the first time, to get her a proper hair cut instead of a mummy cut. I don't think I have done too badly but for her first day at big school I thought she should have a proper cut. No she looks so grown up.
The hairdresser was surprised that she had never been before, she sat nice and still, did everything that she was asked to do.

So here we are an new chapter in life.

A little operation

Today I am having a couple of lumps romoved. One on my leg and one on my breast.

The lump on my leg is just a fiberous lump and nothing to worry about, but it is going to be sent away to be tested.

The lump on my breast on the other hand. It is a mole but has recently changed and has got darker and more lumpy so it needs to be taken off and looked at, just to be on the safe side.

I'm not worried as I have had quite a few lumps like this before and they have always come back clear.

One Year On

Well today it has been a whole year since my pacemaker implantation.
And I can proudly say that I have not collapsed at all since having it implanted.

My children can finally be children again and not have to worry about me collapsing any more.

I can finally got out without worrying and I have lost weight due to all the walking I can now do. I am no longer house bound, this makes me so happy.

My scar looks good too.

Lets hope that that is that.

My Children's First ever Holiday

So this week we went on holiday for the first time.

Day 1

It is a staycation in the lovely county of Somerset. 

The journey there though did not go as planned!  It started from the moment we set off.  We had just got on the motorway when my husband said he forgot to pick up his cards! !! So back to the house we went. So for the second time we set off and all was going well. Then about an hour and a half in to our trip came the sound of my son saying 'I need a wee'. At the next services we stopped for a toilet break.  Then back on the road for the final hour and a half.

Over two and a half hours later after getting stuck in an hour plus of traffic jam going passed Stonehenge and loads of roadworks in the local town to our cottage and getting lost on the diversion. We finally arrived and went up a very steep gravel hill and promptly went skidding back down again. We found our cottage was up another lane in the farm. Which was good as there was no way our car was going to get up that hill, due to the amount of gravel.

We met the owner who showed us around and then sorted a bed out for my son so that my mum could have a proper bed and not need to use the sofa bed in the living room.

My children were amazed that the cottage was upside down.  The bedrooms down stairs and the living room and kitchen up stairs.  They were so very very excited that they were bouncing around like bunnies.

After a little while my husband and I went into the local village to the village store to get some things for breakfast. When we came back we went to the nearest sea side for fish and chips.

So after doing loads of driving to get to the cottage we went on more driving to the sea side. Using sat nav which took us down all these very very little roads, which annoyed my husband immensely. He hates sat nav's with a vengeance!

We finally got there, walked along the sea front and found a little fish & chip shop.  The fish was very nice, and for some reason always tastes nicer when at the sea side. After dinner walked back to the car on the sand, which the children loved. That night they slept almost as soon as their little heads touched the pillow.

Day 2

We went on the West Somerset Steam Railway.  The children loved it and were so very excited. The train was a black, Great Western Railway 2884 Class 2-8-0 3850 and it pulled us from Bishops Lydeard to Dunster where we got off the train and walked into the town. We saw the castle, but did not go in as the children were hungry so we went for lunch in a pub. The children's meals were bigger than ours. Which went down nicely with my daughter even if she didn't finish hers.

On the way back we were on the same train as we went on. But this time it was cuppled to the carriages the right way round.  The children slept most of the way back and even my mum and hubby did too.

Day 3

We went to Glastonbury Abbey. The children went round the museum with a clip board with a A4 sheet of paper with some photos of items in the museum for them to find. After we found all of them the children were given a badge. We then met one of the guides who was wearing period clothing. I took some photos of the children with the guide. 

The children saw some birds of prey at the Abbey and my daughters favourite was a falcon called Ruby, as Ruby is the same name as her best friend at school.

Day 4

Today we went to a cider distillery so I could pick up some local cider.  Well you must have the local produce while on holiday.  I particularly liked the cider with honey.

Then it was on to the beach at Minehead.  The children were a little disappointed that the sea was out such a long way but they did get their feet wet in some very deep wholes that had been filled with water from the out going tide.

On the way home we had to go cross country as there had been an accident on the main road.  So we turned around and using the dreaded sat nav we ended up going all these very steep roads. Ahhhhhh.

Day 5

Time to pack up and go home :( 

On the way back we first stopped at Nunney Castle which is in the middle of Nunney Village. The children loved walking around it but they had to be careful because it is surrounded by a moat.

Our Second stop off was Stonehenge where we had lunch sitting on the grass next to the site.