Thursday's update

Let’s see – got up to find email from a friend suggesting we meet up in the morning, so called them and they came over. Girls did sand art piccies, and worked well together, while ds rolled around the floor, and other little boy desperately tried to join in with the girls, but didn’t quite manage it.

quick lunch so that friends could get off to their next appt, then slumped for an hour or two, before dashing off for my physio appt. It’s really made a difference to my back and hip, and the physio is really impressed with my progress – she’s given me exercises to mobilise my neural net (I quote) that she won’t do herself – although I’m not sure if that’s good or not!

Then quickly off to dd’s second dance class – if you’d seen the first one, you really wouldn’t have thought this was the same child. Got her changed in the dark in the changing room (apparently the lights are on a timer, which has been reset now that the evenings are lighter, hm) – she’s got nearly all the kit now, just missing the cardigan really, and as we got changed discovered that the dance tights are footless ones. So she kept her stripy socks on with the tights as well 😉

Took her upstairs to the studio, and she went trotting in. Tried to get the attention of the member of staff to point out that it was only her second lesson, and that I’d be right downstairs (parents are supposed to wait in the changing room if they decide to wait at all) if they needed me, but they didn’t really seem to click with it. Figured that I’d be able to hear her if she really needed me though and went off back downstairs – she didn’t even look back at me!

So sat in the changing room feeding ds and watching all these other women, none of whom spoke to me, even when I tried speaking to them 🙁 and thought that one day dd had better appreciate what I’m going through for her here! I hated it! But I did it…

Home, food, tea, bath, bed – no sadly that was dd and not me…although as you can see ds went to bed at a reasonable time and slept well.


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