spots spots spots!

hi everybody.....hope you are all well.

before anything i ned to appologise for my typing....i am deprived of sleep at the moment...you will soon find out why!

my poor little baby bryce is covered from head to toe in chickenpox! he has spent the last 48 hours just laying on my lap totally naked! they look so big on his little body. they are worse around his bum but i think thats because of the nappy. He seems a little better today although there are loads more new spots that have appeared during the night.we will see how he goes during the day, might take him to see his nanny and grandad for a bit later just to break the day up a little! wont take him anywhere public though as he is still contagious and would hate to pass it on to somebody else.

mum came and sat for a while last night as i have been housebound due to the chickenpox being SO contagious, and needed time out, so i went to the indian with Shane for a couple of hours. Came home expecting to find Baby awake....haha he was sound asleep! He did sleep for most of last night but i was awake waiting for him to wake.

luckily Bethany and Charlie have both had the pox before as they are both away this week. Charlie is going to west runton in norfolk to a camp for 3 nights. I'm dreading it as he has never been away from me before apart from when he stays with my mum and dad...it will be very quiet without him. He will be going with his young carers group on a mimi bus so please all think of be tomorrow at 12:30 as my boy goes off on his own...think i will cry...know i will cry....feel like crying now! how silly is that! he is growing up!

he will be home late thursday afternoon. Bethany is going for a respite stay in stowmarket on friday till sunday. wont cry about that as she has been going for 2 years now and loves it! will have to go collect her on the sunday morning.

so my house is going to feel very strange for the next week! half my workload will go and there will be no fighting!!!!!

Havent really got anything else to report to you all....apart from i'm exhausted!...but thats part of being a mummy!

must go now and put baby in another bicarbonite of soda bath to ease the itching

love you all lots and lots...you really are the bestest friends i have!

JOANNE

I hope you dont mind but i wanted to show you my pictures from last nights swimming gala that bethany went to.All the people that took part had a dissability in some way.

She swam 4 lengths and 2 widths which totals 120 metres. I'm so proud of her!!

The pictures are all of bethany and there are a couple with Shane on and myself....so you all know now who i go on about LOL.

the last one is a bit of fun....thanks Jeannette for the link!

The other little girl in the picture was from last night...it was her dad that took the pictures for me!

Love you all lots and lots

JOANNE

XxXxX

PS.......Please leave a comment i'd love to know what you think!!!!!!! And leave your name as it still doesn't show up who has left a comment....think thats it all covered now!

did i remember to tell you how much i love you all?????? don't think i did! I LOVE YOU ALL LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS!!!!!

last 48 hours

A big Thursday hello to everybody!

it has been a busy week here......again!

Bryce has been ill with a bad throat and ear. the dr ummed and arghed over wether he should be given antibiotics....so i told him straight.....treat him, the other one ended up in hospital a few weeks ago as you all remember and no way did I want Bryce going through that. He is well on the mend now though so he is ok.

We celebrated his 2nd birthday yesterday!!!! It seems like only yesterday that he was born.it wasn't really a celebration though to be honest as he was ill and i was somewhere else for half of it. guess where i was.....bet you can't!!!!

I'll tell you. I was sitting in the accident department of the hospital with my dear daughter! The phone rang at 9:15 and all i could hear was a man panicing. It was her teacher from school. when he finally managed to speak he told me that he had found bethany with a bottle of antibiotic's and thought she had drank some. yes i know.....antibiotics. partly my fault. she was meant to be going on a 2 night respite, and unknown to me her medicine (which is for her sore throut) wasn't in a child proof bottle as i thought.

so i raced to the hospital to see what was going on. in fact i went so fast i got there before she did. she said she was sorry when she got there and we checked in, and waited, and waited, and waited. when they finally came 2 hours later i told them what had happened. so off they went to measure how much she had drank. "90 mls is left in the bottle....how many doses had you given her?"   "she has had 2 5ml spoonfulls" i replied. Ok you can go she hasnt drank any. so my major panic turned out to be a major mix up. lol. But she is ok and thats the main thing!!

Her headmaster gave me a massive telling off when i took her back to school and made me cry....although he was a little nicer when i had explained that i was unaware that there was no child proof lid on the bottle. I was told to phone the chemist and investigate why this was. So home i came and done as i was told.....to be told they are never in child proof bottles as they are mixed while you wait. so beware everyone that has small children.....they can open the bottles. I personally think this is very silly as most liquid antibiotics are stored in the fridge where the kids can get to the easily. No harm done this time though thankfully.

My love life is going really really well still and we are totally in love!!

hope you are all well!

love you all

Joanne

ps if you leave a coment please leave your name also as for some reason it doesn't show the screen names anymore or any links that people leave??????

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

birthday

Good morning all my journal friends.

I'm online again as you can see. New pc was delivered Friday. seems to be good so far although there is no sound and i was under the impression there was a sound card so I will ring the people who made it yesterday, still have the old pc with a sound card so boyfriend will put that in for me if needed.

My Charlie will be 10 tomorrow! i don't know where the last 10 years have gone seems like 10 minutes ago i was in the hospital being induced with him! lol I'm taking him and his friend out to lunch today to Nando's chicken resturant then on to the cinema for a treat. I took 5 kids out like this last year! never again!!! apart from the fact of trying to watch 5 boys who were 9 for 4 hours was a nightmare it cost me loads of money which i haven't got a lot of at the moment. it will be fun just the 3 of us!

My love life is still going well....we both agree with each other that we have met our soul mate! It is funny feeling like this again over a man!

Kids are all fine and doing well. Baby Bryce is starting to talk a bit now and last week decided he was going to start giving proper kisses, which made mummy very happy as i seem to get loads everyday!!

I will do the photos for definate this week....decided to wait as there was no point putting them on the old pc.

Well i got to run as i have kids to bath and hair to straighten and need to be ready to leave the house at 11 as want to eat at 12 before the film....wont have to buy so many sweets then in the cinema!! lol

Take care and have a lovely Sunday.

Love and hugs

Joanne

computer is seriously ill

Just a quick hello to give you all an update.

My computer is very very ill. it is infact terminal and will soon be going to pc heaven. I'm very sad about this as if it wasn't for my pc i wouldn't of made lots of new friends, Jeannette, sarajane, Ally and Joan, here in the UK, and Joyce my lovely friend in the US. (if i have forgotten to put someone special i'm sorry but it is near impossible to read anything on the monitir due to the pc's illness, but you know i love you too!!)

There is a happy ending though! Good old dad has lent me the money for a new pc!! I have got it from good old ebay and it will be soooo much better than this one and faster and better and faster and i'm loosing control from the excitement! LOL.

So if i don't comment on your journals or reply to emails I am still about and nothing is wrong so please don't worry. I will be back in action very very soon!

The kids are all fine, Charlie is back to his old self and Bethany and Bryce are wonderful also.

Who'd like an update on my lovely new man???????? We are in love! He has totally bowled me over! He's taken me on a night out...brought me flowers...twice! I have even been and met his mum and dad and had a lovely dinner with them on friday night! Bryce came with me. It was really good, although i felt sooooo sick when we got there. i felt even sicker when dear bryce swang on the carpets and pulled the handle off a unit! It was ok and they were cool about it...thank god for that. So all i can say is it's looking good! I'm off to do a valantines shop in a little while, something i haven't done in ages!

My life is so good at the moment and i honestly can never ever remember feeling like this...lets hope its not the calm before the storm!!

Love you all to bits.

Joanne

grhhhhhhhhhhhh

Well happy thursday to all my good friends and anyone else who is having a nose at my journal!

Charlie is loads better, i know this because he has started arguing with me again and had started to bounce of the walls again as usual, He is calm today though as i have put him back on his adhd medication as of this morning. Hasn't needed it all week as was flat out on the sofa for 4 days and just quiet for another 2.

Would you believe Bethany came home from 2 nights respite with half a tooth in an envelope. the other bit is still in her mouth. We went to the doctors first thing this morning but he couldn't do anything till later as she has a little heart problem so needs a dose of antibiotics before any dental treatment as if she gets an infection after any work it could lead to an infection around her heart. So we are back to the dentist at 5 to have the tooth removed. So please please please keep us in your thoughts at 5pm. She has always been put to sleep in the past to have any sort of dental work done but today is going to be staying awake so god only knows how she is going to react. mum is coming with me so we can both sit on her if needed!!! The poor dentist had a look of  horror on his face when he realised whay had to be done...i don't know who will be more scared!

I'm planning on taking some pictures of the kids in the next few days and will put them up for you when they are all done. They have all grown so much recently.

I have some news to tell you.....I have now myself an absolutely lovely man!!!!! He is very kind and we are besotted with each other. I didn't tell anyone before incase we didn't get on, but so far so good! He was absolutely terrific Friday night when Charlie was rushed into hospital. He followed the ambulance and stayed with me at the emergency room till we knew what was going to happen. He then brought me home to get my stuff and came to see if i was ok at the hospital on saturday when charlie was still in. Then he came round saturday night to keep me company as i was scared to be on my own with charlie so ill. So you had all better start saving for your hats as it is all a bit of a whirlwind at the moment!!!!! I feel like a teenager!!!! lol. I will keep you updated!

Take care everyone and have a lovely day!

LOVE AND HUGS

JOANNE