Archive for the ‘Adam’ Category

Thanks Everyone Who Spoke To My Heart

It really needed to hear it! Adam is still ill, probably with a viral infection.  No other infection found in his urine, so that’s good news. Now the debate is: to do settle in days in daycare or not. Simon and I are leaning towards not. Adam didn’t actually settle into daycare until we said [...]

September 7, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Adam  One Comment

Once Again Feeling Like A Crap Mother

I am not saying I am a crap mother.  Just that I feel like one lately. Why? Because Adam has had 3 ear infections and 2 chest infections, 2 of each in the last month. And has had to take antibiotics for them. Why do I blame myself? Because I couldn’t breastfeed. Everyone (yeah, ya [...]

September 4, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, Thoughts  4 Comments

3rd Cold in 2 Months

So Adam isn’t sleeping well. So no one is sleeping well. And I am cursing the rotten parents who abused toddler cold medicine, using it when their babies wouldn’t sleep rather than when they were ill, so all governments everywhere took it off the market. I just want my baby to be able to breathe.  [...]

August 29, 2010   Posted in: Adam  One Comment

Mama and Adam’s Newest Adventure

So I’ve been wanting to go to Connswater Shopping Centre for awhile, because there is a Really Really Big Tesco (TM) there, but was always a bit daunted by the distance. Until I realized it was only about half a mile further than the Tesco I go to now. So I put Adam in his [...]

August 24, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, Belfast, Simon  2 Comments

I Once Put As My Facebook Status

“People without chronic pain illness cannot understand that a lessening of pain is as good as no pain at all.” That holds true every day of my life. I am in pain of some sort 24/7/365.  Whether my left hand aches from arthritis or my left leg hurts from ass to ankle with early degenerative [...]

August 15, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Fibro  No Comments

So, My Dad Asked Me On Skype Today…

‘You’ve cancelled our Skype twice now because of work on your flat.  Is it falling apart?’ The answer is no.  The reason there is suddenly so much work being done around here is that I finally got a contact at our landlord’s who, when I ring and say ‘The metal strip between Adam’s room and [...]

August 8, 2010   Posted in: Adam, New Flat  No Comments

My Absolutely Non-Picky Eater…

So you hear about kids who just.won’t.eat.  Okay, well, they eat, but its things like hot dogs and fish fingers and chips. I don’t have one of those kids. In the past few weeks Adam has eaten: Chicken Tikka, pilau rice, pickles, na’an, chappati, cod, fresh peas, risotto, salmon, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, oven [...]

August 3, 2010   Posted in: Adam  One Comment

Apologies If Anyone Couldn’t Get Here Yesterday

My brother hosting company migrated servers yesterday so we were down for a bit.  All fixed now! These past 3 weeks of flat repair have convinced me, once again, that I don’t ever really want to own my own house.  Its been constant is the workman going to show up, oh good he did, oh [...]

July 27, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, New Flat  One Comment

I Am Sure I Am Not

the first person to stare at their child and wonder.  Not just at how quickly they are growing or at the fact that they are a parent. But wonder at the magic that is the creation of life. About 22 months ago an egg met a sperm and 37 weeks 6 days later a full [...]

July 24, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, Thoughts  No Comments

Reflections on a Year

Well…over 13 months. Anyway, as Adam and I gear up for our next big adventure, him starting day nursery and me having free time away from him on a regular basis, I’ve started to reflect on the past year. As this year has gone by there have been some truly horrible moments.  Moments when I’ve [...]

July 17, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, Fibro, Mental Illness, Thoughts  One Comment