Snow is here!

This was the view from my house this morning. Looks absolutly beautiful like a perfect winter wonderland. Definatly feels like christmas now.

The boy thought it was great although hes not allowed out in it yet, we'll all get wrapped up in a while and make a snow man so more snow pics to follow.

Today is the first day ive had heating and im sooooo chuffed its happened today because my god we need it!

So bye for now im taking full advantage of being snug and warm and im gonna have an hours nap xxx

Please no SNOT!

if you have been reading my blog then you probably already know I'm a little worried / verging on paranoid about the swine flu situation. I haven't been asked yet if i want my boy to have the vaccine which I'm a little annoyed about even though i haven't decided yet if i would let him have it, it still would be nice to have the option.

Anyway i have been a bit of a mean mummy because of my paranoia which i think is completely justified given the fact that he is my first baby and possibly my last. Obviously i want to wrap him up in cotton wool and protect him from all those nasty germs but also i wont let him near any children who could be potential carriers. Which made my mothers offer to take him to visit Santa seem like a putting my baby in a leper camp (which he hated by the way, i was secretly pleased as that meant a speedy get away)

But I've sort of developed a self inflicted agoraphobia and banished us to the safety of the house. I'm not a great fan of leaving the house when its so bloody cold outside anyway and I've avoided visiting friends who have all seemed to have gotten some kind of flu bug recently and so far we managed to stay bug free.

But this paranoia has turned me to dislike other peoples children i don't mean kids i know, i mean strangers kids you know the ones that really piss you off. The supermarket screamers and the snotty nosed ones, the ones whose parents seem not to notice the string of snot dangling from there nose, which usually gets sucked back in via either nose or mouth or wiped dry with grubby little hands.

It makes me soooooo angry that people don't have a clue about cleanliness and germs especially with the flu's and winter bugs. I understand that yes you cant keep your kids clean all of the time but come on people a bit of common sense and courtesy for those of us who are scared stiff our kids may get ill please wipe noses with tissues and throw them in the bin.

Well anyway all this being said i woke up this morning to a very unhappy little boy and an echo of sniffles and sneezes. We all feel like crap my boy cant drink anything because he cant breath and suck at the same time. He cant eat because chewing seems like a full body work out and yes he has snot dangling from both nostrils which he keeps sniffing back up and wiping on the back of his hand.

Well i suppose it shows me locking us in the house may have put off the inevitable temporarily but you can never stop these things. Now i have a poorly baby who's supposed to be having a birthday party Saturday urrggggghhh Fingers crossed he'll be better by then x

Snow is on the way!

I have to admit i was a little disappointed this morning as i dragged my self out of my nice warm bed. I rushed to the window expecting a blanket of snow but there wasnt a flake in sight.

It was far colder than usual last night i have a quilt the thickness of a rizzla paper with my dressing gown over the top to try and keep what little body heat i have left inside. even when you try and wrap bodies round each other its never comfortable enough to stay there long with his bones digging in and my worry of morning breath makes me turn over which leaves a hammock between you with a force 12 Gail blowing down you back.

This time last year i was in hospital in Spain contemplating life as a mummy, worrying about my boy being so premature and sweating my tits off with there heating on full blast all day and all night. The one thing i missed the most at that moment in time was Christmas in England and the lovely crisp frosty mornings and the hope of a glimpse of snow.

Well this year it could actually happen my baby could have snow for his birthday and his first Christmas i really hope it does it will be lovely for him and make the pics very cute. Well ill keep the curtains open to make sure i get a snap of the first snow flake...... how exiting!

Note to self.... time to stop sleeping naked, dig out PJS, stick sleeping bag on top of the quilt and buy 2 hot water bottles next time at Tescos.

Families and festivities

Ive been away for a week for a so called holiday.... it wasn't a holiday, not even close to a holiday, in fact i would call it closer to a nightmare!

I cant blame the family, i haven't seen them for over 3 years so it was great to catch up, and I'm very pleased that no one thought to mention the fact i have nearly doubled in size, all emphasis was on the boy that i was chuffed about and obviously hes loved by all.

There are 2 things that i can not do without when staying with other people as far as the boy is concerned these are vital tools that we cannot do without

No 1. The walker

No 2. The high chair

So the two things that were forgotten where obviously the walker and the high chair! which didn't do us any favours what so ever. This meant that rather than the boy playing quite contently on his own which he does at home quite lovely, he will sit in his walker and scoot him self around playing with what ever is in his hands for ages, to wanting to be picked up then put down then picked up then put down then picked up then put down.....well you can see the pattern emerging. this was tolerable for the first day or two but by the 7th day was really starting to piss me off!

It wasn't helped actually by his grandad teaching him how to blow raspberries (this is something that he learned months ago and took us twice as long to stop him from doing it!) as funny as it seemed to the 75 year old i was secretly seething inside as i was covered by his orange staining baby food each meal time..... oh yes so fucking funny!

As we didn't have the second most important item the high chair, the raspberry blowing was made even worse by a child in a bouncer who can not only climb his way out of it but will bounce himself forward till it does a flip and he lands face down on the floor, which to him was the funniest game in the world to me was getting close to breaking point.

All this excitement for a little one seeing people he had never seen before, every one around wanting to play meant that bed time was a complete nightmare i don't know where he got all his energy from all i knew is i had none left and just wanted to go home and to top it all off i had a 5 and a half hour journey home in the fog. Topped it all off nicely.

Thank god we are home, slept really well yesterday and boy is back to his normal self so we decided to put the Christmas decorations up which is something i look forward to every year. So now the countdown begins boys birthday on the 23rd and then Christmas yippppeeeeee cant wait!