BETHANY

12TH MAY 1994 WAS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE...........MY DAUGHTER BETHANY WAS BORN

13TH MAY 1994 WAS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE........WE FOUND OUT SHE HAD DOWNS SYNDROME.

STILL DONT KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT ALL.....................

FEEL SAD

FEEL HAPPY AS SHE IS HAPPY AND SO VERY EXCITED ABOUT BEING 12.

AM VERY CONFUSED, ( HENSE NO JOURNAL INPUT IN AGES, SORRY EVERYONE)

BETHANY HAVING A BIRTHDAY DINNER LATER AT NANDO'S CHICKEN RESTURANT.

HAVE TO GO GET HER READY FOR SCHOOL AND MAKE BREAKFAST

DON'T ANY OF YOU FORGET HOW MUCH I LOVE ALL OF YOU!

LOVE AND HUGS ALWAYS

JOANNE

ohhh i'm so excited Charlie will be back at 3:30!!! He sounded so happy on the phone yesterday....i feel sorry for him having to come home again. Bethany is in a rotten mood and i know she will be nasty to him. love you all.....JOANNE

boo hoo i'm all alone....for a change!

hi everyone

just wanted to let you all know that charlie got away ok on his holiday....and yes i did cry! I managed to wait till the bus had gone though.....all my mum kept saying was to take deep breaths!

i spoke to him briefly on the phone earlier and he sounded so excited. had already been doing archery and was off tonight on a scrapheap challenge! He said he was in a roon with 3 bunk bed's so hopefully none of the other boys snore....although he has had lots of broken nights the last few days due to Bryce's chickenpox, so a bit of snoring probably wont disturb him at all. charlie has only ever been to stay away at my mums before so it feels really strange that he is away in norfolk having to really look after himself. I hope he changes his pants and sock's! lol.  the last things he said to me was i love you mummy and i promise i will be good! i'm sure he will try as i did explain to him that if he did act silly it would look bad on me!

Bryce's spots are look ing a little better now so hopefully we are over the worst and maybe he will manage to sleep for a complete night tonight. I am to be honest completely wiped out through lack of sleep and with the children being on easter holidays my days have been anything but quiet, so i am going to try and have a little bit of as rest while i can!

Shane hasn't come to see me tonight as he has got his daughters so i am completely alone (apart from the other 2 who are sleeping) so i expect i will be going to bed tonight sooner rather than later!

will post again on thursday evening when charlie comes home to tell you all about his adventures!

love you all lots and lots

JOANNE

 

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

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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!