As I feel dreadful.
Dp tells me that this is the progression of the bug he had while we were at Hesfes – feel really wiped out for several days, and just as you are feeling better, the cold hits. So it’s unlikely that I infected anyone yesterday – but I might have got you earlier!
Small doesn’t appear to be suffering too badly – he was very out of it earlier, then napped with me this afternoon and seems brighter for it.
Isadora (although still not convinced by that, I prefer Garbo, and it’s dp who’s got it mixed up 😉 ) lived on a diet of Fox kids this morning, but I switched it off during lunch and she didn’t ask to have it back on. Maybe that is the TV answer – just turn it off.
So nothing remotely educational to blog today I’m afraid, although I have been reading a lot about sibling rivalry and so on on another forum. Wondering what there is I can be doing to mend the relationship between myself and Isa – really struggling with it. I think I made a pigs ear of it once ds was born basically – did and said everything that made her feel left out and generally second fiddle, after she’d been the focus of my life for 3 1/2 years. Not sure what I can do now though that won’t impact adversely on ds – would seem ironic to derail the successful relationship to mend the broken one.
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BTW my 2 get referred to as Big Fred and Little Fred when I don’t want real names to be used.
Sarah and Freds
Again, my personal take on the sibling thing is that you just can’t win. I know Abigail and I have lots of issues – I’m convinced part of it is middle child syndrome, while part of it is us being similar … and while you might feel like you’ve made a pigs ear of things, you probably haven’t really – and in another year’s time you’ll be struggling with Small … she says, from personal experience! Parenting is just one long juggling act!
Anyway, hope you feel much better soon.
Don’t look at it as broken. A relationship is always a rollercoaster ride and you won’t always get it ‘right’. Stop beating yourself up about things and start again afresh today. If you try to go into something thinking negative it will be impossible to turn it into the positive.I ‘fail’ everyday. I have made some really stupid decisions. Pea can’t decide how she feels about me most of the time and most of the time she drives me up the wall and around the bend!But I can’t spend so much time thinking about it. I have to show her love, support, discipline, right, wrong…..She isn’t always going to like me because of what I do or say. I won’t always like myself for the same reasons. Think positive, have faith in yourself and be real. Yes you will make mistakes, yes you probably already have made some! BUT you have made loads of positive steps, focus more on these.