Spread your wings and fly away

Once upon a time, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth. One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit. "Oh, my," said the bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm going. In fact, since I'm also an orphan, I don't even know what I am." "It's quite ok," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is as yours. I too have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are so at least you'll have that going for you." "Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur, you have really long ears, your nose twitches, and you have a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit." Oh, thank you, thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me." So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I'd say you must be a Team Leader, Supervisor or possibly someone in Senior Management." o,,,o /),/) ( ` ` ) ( ` ` ) (,,)--(,,)(,,)--(,,)

Getting out of bed was obviously going to be a mistake as I:

1) stubbed my toe on the end of the bed
2) couldn't find any clean underwear and realised that it was all probably at the bottom of the ironing pile
3) cleared up the pile of sick that one of the dogs(most likely Baron) decided to leave at the bottom of the stairs for me
4) Check my account online - a bad move, not as much in the account as I thought there was
5) find youngest still coughing his guts up
6) Virgin flipping media is having a fit on my cable box again and you can't change the fecking channels or look up what you are watching.
7) A phone call to a doctor to make an appointment for youngest and myself, they are fully booked and probably won't be able to see us until next week sometime!!

So after a calming cuppa, some cornflakes (for a change)I decided that the living room,dining room and kitchen needed a good tidy, dust and hoover before I head off to the shower.

All ok so far and lol and behold any member of this family making a mess of my clean and tidy rooms they will be shot at dawn lol!!!

Then off to the physiotherapist at the hospital, an appointment I had to make 4 weeks ago as I had to cancel the last one due to illness.

This isn't fun to do when you have a child that is coughing so much no one wants to look after him for a couple of hours while you visit the physiotherapist.

A couple of hours was all I wanted, it wouldn't have hurt, afterall I'veput up with the coughing day and night since Saturday!!!

Good news is physio is happy with my progress and signed me off, I have a lot more movement in my neck now, she has given me some more exercises to do and will keep my file to hand until end of April, just in case I feel the need to return otherwise I am signed off for good.

Aching now though through all the manipulation she has done!

Sainsburys was busy with lots of screaming kids, none of which were near a parent of any reasonable responsibility - thankfully Richard only managed to keep up a constant stream of chatter in between coughing fits, laughing at me as I had left my list at home again and helping by adding things to the trolley I didn't need but really couldn't be bothered to keep taking out. I am still wondering how the cookies made their way in there, but as they have been eaten now they are not likely to make me worry about them any further.

So now I am having a lovely cup of tea, before I head off into my pristine kitchen and make some chilli for tonight's tea.

you never know at some point today I may, just may, get to sit down and read my book lol

EDIT I do not iron underwear, towels, bed linen, jumpers, nightclothes. They came out of the tumble dryer and no one separated them hence there is a mountain of an ironing pile yet most of it will not get ironed, just folded and put away lol

Have you ever got up in the morning and realised you have made a huge mistake?

In other news, most of my bank holiday has been taken up with a sick child. Well he isn't really that sick but he has a hacking cough, one that goes on and on and on and on till no matter where you are in the house you can hear him coughing all day and night long. Of course he is clingy, tired due to lack of sleep, and we spent most of yesterday curled up on the sofa, me periodically checking his temperature, watching lots of children's films till I got to the stage of being able to recite them word for word.

Having spent the best part of the weekend with my youngest child, while hubby takes the eldest son to work with him, I was hoping for some repite towards evening time when the workers came home. This didn't happen though until after youngest had been put to bed. I cleaned the kitchen and sat down to read my book. Hubby took himself off upstairs to play his game on the playstation which is when I heard Richard coughing again for the umpteenth time and then start to cry. Hubby losing his temper and doors being slammed and a lot of movement upstairs.

Decided to keep out of the way, being the caring, concerned mother I am, afterall, hubby was upstairs and dealing with things his own way.

When all was calm once more I headed up to the bathroom where I find Richard's bedding on the floor.

"What happened?" says I

"He wet his bed" says the concerned father. From the smell of it that is not all he had done. Apparently he started another coughing fit and lost control of bladder and bowels. After that everytime he coughed he ran to the bathroom - just in case - he was clearly mortified the poor thing!

I wasn't impressed though afterall what idiot leaves the soiled washing on the bathroom floor? Would it have been too much of a hassle to bring it downstairs and put it in the washing machine? Clearly yes, it was and after I shouted as much and got everyone running all round the place taking the soiled items downstairs and putting them in the said washer, giving instructions on how to turn the washer on so that the items could be washed, I finally made it to bed, where I lay awake listening to child coughing, and coughing and coughing.

Fortunately he doesn't seem to be so bad this morning, he has calmed a little and the cough isn't as noisy as it was over the weekend. Hopefully we are over the worst of it now.

Better get on and do some more washing and housework now, or take a leaf out of a blogfriend's book and make a cuppa first!

Have a good day everyone

xxx