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Well I have again had one of my AWOL sessions. The drugs were causing me real problems but that was nothing compared to the huge shock that lay in wait for me next! I had been feeling awful every morning and blaming it all on the tablets but no I discovered eventually when I could ignore the signs no longer that I was (am) pregnant ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I had to stop taking the new meds straight away as they can be dangerous in pregnancy and after seeing the doc and midwife found I was about 8 weeks gone. Had both my scans and thankfully everything appears to be ok and it is another boy which DD is not majorly happy about (she wanted a sister) but to be honest is a bit of a relief for me and hubby another girl like DD would be enough to turn me grey

I am now nearly 22 weeks and getting used to the idea although hubby is still in state of shock and having problems adjusting to it I don't think he will come to terms with it until wrigglebum is born lol. When we eventually told the kids about baby DD was adamant she wanted a baby sister as she didn't have a sister, DS#2 said well I have a babay sister so I want a baby brother, and DS#1 said I have a baby brother and a baby sister and they are both hard work can we have another dog instead? roflmao So I managed to please DS#2 at least lol and thankfully it is just the one in there I had one of my friends trying to convince me that as I was older I was bound to have twins I think that would have cause hubby to have a coronary!

Anyhow thats my big news and I have been so tired and so busy I have not been on the pc very much at all and blogging was not the first thing on my mind. Hope you are all ok my blogland pals

Yesterday wasn't too bad a bit spacey but nothing else so I thought the side effects were finally wearing off but after taking the evening dose everything went down hill I felt wide awake when these drugs are supposed to help you sleep, and every time I moved my head it was like the whole room was moving with it. I ended up not going to bed untill really late because I was so awake. I eventually went to bed around 2am but it took ages for me to get to sleep and I didn't sleep very well at all.
I have got up this morning feeling as if I have the worlds worst hangover and I haven't had anything to drink! My legs are weak and wobbly, I am excessively thristy, my eyes feel heavy and achey and of course my head hurts. Add to that normal fibro pains and feeling freezing cold (I am wrapped up in winter clothes and a blanket!) and all in all I feel absolutely S**T

Sorry for the whining but I want to have a complete record of all this for my doctor.

Last night I had the cold feet again but also cold hands. Both hands and feet (especially ankles) are swelling a little and the dizziness is stll there. I spoke with my doc about not take the midday dose so that I could get to work (as I need to drive to get there) and he said that would be fine as long as I took 2 tablets in the evening as I must keep to the same dosage. Ater taking too I was completely off the charts I couldn't look up or down and my house decided to start spinning lol.
The tablets are supposed to make you feel tired and help you sleep better ut I have to say they are making me feel more awake. I generally (pre-tabs) go to bed around 11pm and get to sleep fairly quickly although I wake several times during the night and find it hard to get back to sleep. Now I am going to bed at the usual time as I have to get up fairly early but I am finding it very hard to get to sleep and very hard to stay asleep.
This morning I feel more out of it and spaced out than yesterday morning so I guess thats the double dose. I am a bit worried as I need to be able to drive in the mornings to take the boys to school. Oh well will just have to give it some time I guess just not too happy with it all at the moment

Morning blogland I am feeling completely doped up and not with it this morning and still getting the dizziness, cold feet, dry mouth, and generally feeling kinda weird!

Alot and not alot has been happening in my world lots has happened but at the same time it is all normal family day to day stuff nothing majorly exciting.

DS#1 has been having a few more problems at school with this one boy they had a big row just before the last half term and I got called into school to speak to the deputy head. It turned out DS#1 had said to the other boy (who had his mum standing next to him at the time) that he was very rude and hadn't been bought up very well! You can imagine I was really embarrassed As I was told all this at the end of the day on the last day before half term I couldn't see the other mum until a week and a half later. So I went up to her when school was back and did the usual I am so sorry blah blah and she said "Yeah it was really weird they were talking and suddenly my son said to DS#1 your mum is really fat and ugly and so DS#1 said to my son well you are really rude and haven't been bought up properly!"
OMG!! how come it was just me called in for a talking to then? I can understand DS#1 saying that to the boy and the fac his mum was "so surprised" at what DS#1 said after her sons remarks speaks volumes to me! He is still doing really well in terms of learning though he is extremely bright.

DS#2 is doing really well he is getting really huge he looks much older than 5! He is in reception but has been doing year one work for several months now and is in the top groups for everything in the class with the year ones (it is a Recpetion year one mixed class) so I am very happy with him.

DD has had some induction days in school as she start reception in Septemnber se just turned 4 but like DS#2 she looks older than she is and I have been told she has the communication skills of a 6 yr old so it looks like we will be doing 3 lots of Uni fees So in about 10 years I will be robbing a bank to pay for it all

Here is DD on her first induction day they didn't have to wear uniform but she insisted on it rofl

So I had a rheumatologist appointment this week, after prodding all the fibro tender spots to make sure they were still tender OWWWWWWW he satdown and told me about a new med Pregabalin (or Lyrica is the common name). I am trying it out and started yesterday. After reading up on it I have discovered that it makes you dizzy for at least the first week if not all the time and the side effects start immeadiately but in 30% of patients it reduces fibro effects 50% or more.
So going to keep a note of how it affects me so that I can judge whether the benfits outweigh the side effects;

Day one Very Dizzy felt like the room was swaying at times! Also had a dry mouth and in general felt as if I had been on a 3 day bender! My feet got very very cold up to my ankles but nothing else felt cold and I had a complete loss of apetite

Day two: So far dizzy but not as bad as yesterday at this point and dry mouth and loss of apetite.

I will blog properly this week lots of new things to tell you all

Edited to add they are definately making me very dizzy! My feet are freezing lol and I have ahd a kind of numbness in my arms and tingling in my fingers rofl sounds like I will fall apart any second pmsl

Stitch something for me! I keep planning on it but it doesn't seem to be happening at all! I am currently doing a pressie for my parentals and have still got the kids birth samplers to do (they are 8,5 and 3 now roflmao) and I have a pressie for hubbie to finish. Sigh maybe I will get that lot done then do something for myself then again...... lol

Thanks for the cooments AJ, Faffa and Dom nice to see you guys again and amazed you remember me lol

It is half term here so got loads of stuff planned. We unfortunately cannot go to all the cool places to take Molly and run her ragged as she has come into season so has to be on the lead at all times. I think it would be a bit mean to say the least to take her to a big huge park and not let her off the lead! Right kids are moaning already they want to go out so a nice long walk with Molly should quieten them down for a while afterwards

So we moved in August with only 8 weeks notice which meant I had 3 weeks notice to sort the kids schools before term ended! Both DS's are now at school and DD is now in pre-school every day so I have mornings free to do the housework or stitch in peace

Here is their first days at school this september:

As you will have noticed we have also had an addition to the family. A chocloate Labrador pup called Molly she is now 8 months old but here is a puppy picture of her

and her more recently

I have mainly been stitching for RAK's and gifts at the moment so I cannot share many pictures with you but here is one that is finished. I did one of the cross stitch squares and then made it up into a quilt with all the other squares by other ladies for a very special lady;

Here is hubby looking IMHO gorgeous for Remeberance Sunday

So that is all the up to date pictures and it has been that long I cannot remember which image code to use so I guess I will be editing this a few times till I get it right

Not been around for such a long long time but we are all fine just a few minor things keeping me busy

Hubby got posted in August and we moved to somewhere actually further than an hour from London which is a bit of a culture shock! It also means I do alot more shopping online now

DD is really getting the lie on the floor and scweam and scweam and scweam tantrums. She has to have at least 1 a week at school, 1 in public and several at home. Eldest DS has his cyst back again and will have to have surgery to remove it again soon Younger DS is in full time school now and loving it, he is also reading and has taken to it like his brother ie fish to water and has nearly read all the Reception level books

Hubby is miserable he hates his new job and as he has to do 2 years he has at leaast 18m to push.

I also have a new job I am working for victim Support and I love it. I do miss the kids as I work 4-8 so don't get to do bath and bed any more but I had to get a job I was getting too bored at home.

We also got a puppy a choc lab called Molly who is a mummies girl and is currently asleep on my feet

Any-how a proper return post with pics to follow

That is my daughter! The boys never caused me any problems they didn't touch things they weren't supposed to and they certainly didn't try to eat liquigel laundry tablets (see a previous post). DD has to be different not for her the easy foray into childhood with the occasional head bump and the sometimes sickness that makes Linda Blair in the exorcist look tame oh no.
A couple of weeks ago we went shopping, nothing fancy your normal everyday Tesco's run for grocery's. DD#1 was at school but I had DS#2 and DD with me. Even though I tell myself at the end of every shopping trip I will not fall for the "Me want walk, me hole trolley me goog girl" routine I still do give her a chance. So neither child was in a seat in the trolley and both behaved amazingly well during the shop they only ran off about ten times each and only cried because I refused to buy them breakfast sweets (Coco "lets fill them full of crap in the morning" rocks) of course the MIL lets them have it so I get a chorus "But grandma gives it to us wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".
We got to the till and it was the last till in the line furthest from the exit and empty so I thought this is good they can only run off in one direction!
At the end of the till was a photo booth, my kids are fascinated with these as they "talk" to you so both kids ran into it to press buttons. Awful parenting I suppose but I thought at least they would be within sight and not able to break anything so I left them to it. Half way through the scanning of my trolley and with a queue of 2 people now behind me DD let out the most awful scream! Somehow she had managed to get her arm stuck behind a bar in the photo booth (like a bar in a disabled toilet). Her arm was bent so her elbow joint was below the bar and her hand and shoulder above it.
Of course major kerfuffle trying to free her arm without killing her or more realistically dislocating her shoulder and an out of action till as I could not pay with her in this position. We had a gaggle of about 6 staff around us I imagine I was the colour of a tomato and eventually one lady sent a lad off for a bottle of washing up liquid and sweets. The washing up liquid did the trick and set her loose and the sweets certainly stopped the screaming! I now avoid that till as I have a sneaking suspicion that DD would do it again on purpose to get some free sweets! (yes they got sweets for DS#2 as well).

If that isn't enough do you have any idea how to get a bead out of a small child's nose? No? I do now after today. Both DS's were at school and I was quite happily sitting with DD doing some crafting when she decided to see how far her necklace would stretch. Of course ping the elastic breaks and beads fly everywhere, I am quite used to this and have a lovely cup full of beads which I plan to use in some fashion eventually lol. Whilst I am scurrying around picking them all up DD has a brainwave of seeing if she can put a bead up her nose! Oh and she could but the scream that accompanied the pushing of the bead prevented her from doing matching beaded nostrils! I rang the doctors to see if there was anything I could do and got told no A&E is your only option so off I rush on the speaker phone whilst driving telling the schools I am coming to get the boys early (again) as I have to take DD to A&E (again) but no it isn't a possible dislocated shoulder it is a bead up the nose this time and in the process awarding myself worse mother of the year award!
Eventually after a half hour drive and a fifteen minute wait for a parking space I get into A&E. We are only there 5 minutes before the nurse calls us and asks what happened and after explaining she tells me an easy trick which may work that I can do to dislodge it.
"It has to be me that does it?" I ask a little suspicious of what may happen when I follow these directions
"Yes it is best if it is Mum or Dad the child is happier with that"
Ok so I follow the instructions and gather DD onto my lap,
put my finger over the un-beaded nostril
and blow a short hard breath into my daughters mouth
My suspicions are confirmed when I end up struck in the cheek by a flying bead and then covered in blood and snot lovely!
But at least I know now for the next time how to remove a bead from a small child's nose lol it doesn't work on soft things like raisins though so no raisins for DD until she is 18 and that's final!

Oh and I have decided to accept that I am an eclectic blogger and embrace my stop and start method of blogging

So we had the big kerfuffle last year when the Doctor decided my DD had chicken pox and I thought he was wrong. Well I know he was wrong now as she has it for real this time! Poor baby is a mass of spots and is still getting new ones every day she is being fairly good for a kid her age and not scratching too much. She is having a hard time at night so I have had a few sleepless ones but during the day she is ok.
The chicken pox has given her a sore throat as well so I have been giving her ice pops and small lollies to help ease it and get some fluids into her. Yesterday I gave her a mini Calipo and she sat there for ages pushing it up and gooing "oooh UP" and then dropping it "gone!" and giggling away to herself like mad it was just adorable.

DS#1 is still High School Musical mad he sat there listening to the CD in the car while I got petrol and when I got back in the car I got; "Mum you really should have listened to that song. That was a good one really good but you missed it" he then gave a huge sigh and threw me a pitying look. He is already formulating his arguements for his Dad as to why he needs the DVD of it and the DVD of Jump In and the CD of Jump In and High School Musical the concert. Luckily he is not yet aware of High School Musical 2.

DS#2 had me in hysterica yesterday. He saw an advert for Spiderman 3 toys and was the usual I want that one, I want that one etc etc and I told him he wasn't having any as he had some spiderman toys already. His response:

DS "I will buy them myself"
Me "Where will you get the money from?"
DS "Argos"
Me "You think that Argos will give you money to buy toys?"
DS "Of course they do it all them time!"

I am not sure he gets that Argos is not a lets buy children toys charity!

Well will write more later just had to get that lot down before I forgot