Last night was interesting.  Went to bed early as I wasn't feeling too well.  DD suddenly woke up screaming, and screamed for 2 hours! She didn't tell me what the problem was, didn't appear to be sick at all, I took her into my bed and she kept on crying.  After about 90 minutes I turned on the light, waited til our eyes adjusted, then made her look at me and tell me what the problem was.  She said she had to go to the toilet! What the? She could have gone to the toilet without waking me up or crying over it.  She then went to the toilet and kept on crying.  I asked her if she had a pain in the tummy, a headache, all those questions I'd been asking her the whole time without a response from her.  This morning I woke her up at 7am to get ready for daycare.  She ate her breakfast then I asked her what she upset about last night.  She told me that a velociraptor jumped through her window and was ready to eat her!  So we had a talk about dinosaurs and she's ok now.  She knows that dinosaurs are not alive anymore.  That'll teach me for taking her to the museum when they had their palaeontologist expedition school holiday show on won't it.

Anyway this morning after breakfast and after our talk I sent her to her room to get dressed into the clothes already set out for her on her bed.  By this time it was about 7:40am and we had to leave at 7:50am.  I was printing things out for work from the computer and finishing my coffee then realised the time.  I checked on her, she was still in pjs at nearly 7:50 so I dressed her.  Then I sent her off to find a hat and put shoes on.  She took her time with this too and ended up going to childcare without shoes on.

We got there at 8am instead of 7:55 (it's on the same block as us) which meant I would turn up for work just on time instead of getting in early as planned.  While she was getting out of the car she tripped and hit her head on the concrete around the garden bed.  I took her in, put an ice pack on her head and sat with her while I rang work and said I'd be late.  Got to work late to find we were short staffed and the others were somewhat annoyed with me for taking my time!  I had made a coffee at home in a take-away coffee cup before I realised I was going be later than expected, and well before I realised I would be very late. I walked in finishing that off and one smart-arse made a comment about how I had time to stop off at Maccas on the way through.  Grr, I wouldn't go to Maccas, or any other place like it, for the same reason I would never enrol my child in a large childcare company - I don't support capitalism!  As if I was in the mood for stupid sarcastic comments after my child bashed her head and I left her anyway.  GRRRRR!!

Had some problems with a couple of ppl from daycare.

Hopefully other people had a better day, although I did read through a couple of blogs and it seems there are some confused members and a couple of deleted members which is probably for the best.  We need to rid Minti of these troublemakers.  I thought it was a little far fetched that someone would hack into a member's account just to report the advice written by a member then report the member.  Anyway, it's all sorted.  Enjoy the rest of your evening!

Been a little sick the last couple of days.  2 of the girls at work went home sick last week with Rota Virus and I started feeling a little crampy yesterday afternoon at around 3-ish.  It got worse as the day went on but work finished at 5 so I stuck around.  Last night was just awful! I felt stuck to the loo, today wasn't much better but I think it's gone now.  Just feeling really tired now and ready for bed.  No house work has been done.  We've just been watching movies.  DD went with her grandma who's in town today so I could rest.  Didn't last long though.  My mother isn't doing so well at the moment.  At least she wore her out enough to have a relaxing afternoon.  Hopefeully back at work tomorrow but we'll wait and see.  I saw a doctor who said it wasn't rota virus and it was just a bug so hopefully he was right.  It seems to have passes a little faster than rota virus.  The other 2 had to have the whole week off, not just one day.

On a good note though, DD learnt how to do butterfly in the pool and did a tumble turn on the weekend, and apparently again today I was told.  She has become very good at doing somersaults in the pool! I'm just sorry I wasn't with her today to see the look on her swimming teacher's face when she showed him.  Never mind.  I'll talk to him on the weekend anyway.  I'm just very proud of how far she's come in the short time she's been on this planet for.  It's amazing how much they learn.  It's been said that children learn more in the first 8 years of life than we learn in the next 90 years of life.  That's gotta be true.  They come so far in the first 8 years.  Enjoy the rest of your night everyone.  I'm off to bed.

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Have fun! I did!

It wasn't very successful.  Madame kept on getting up and turning it back off again so it was interrupting her sleep throughout the night.  I snuck in at 4:30 to turn it on low to see if my alarm would still wake her when the radio started at 6 and her radio woke her at 4:30 so that was the start of our day.  So much fun! NOT!  Will maybe try it again a few times to see if she eventually falls asleep with her radio going.  Maybe if I can get her to sleep with the radio on in her bedroom my alarm won't wake her so easily, it might muffle the sounds.  Thanks to all those who made suggestions on how to get her to sleep a little later.

We have been short staffed like you would not believe this week with 3 staff down with Rota Virus, one down with a severe chest infection and one down due to a death in her family! It's not their fault, they're all legitimate except one, she's never there but not even woth the mention, she's away because she's pregnant and suffers fake pregnancy problems.  I know this because I'll mention a problem, a week later she'll claim to have it, another staff member will mention a problem they had, a week later she'll claim to have it.  So anyway we were short staffed which was putting a huge strain on everyone else there.  It's hot, the air-cons aren't working well, my own child is sick and I'm stressing about leaving her at daycare when she's unwell. 

I ended up saying to another work this afternoon that I'll be back in 5 minutes, left the room and made a coffee in the kitchen and burst into tears! The boss had gone home, leaving me in charge, and I wasn't feeling at all up to it but everyone else seems too incompetent to be left in charge.  Today it all hit at once.  Went to the doc Wednesday with a sick child and did not leave until I had medicine for her and a referral to a paediatrician.  The doctor wasn't willing to give me one but I told him I wasn't leaving until I got one so I got what I wanted!

Today was hectic, I was having dizzy spells, my head literally felt like it was going to explode, implode, or just blow out the top of it.  I felt like I was going to pass out, throw up, scream, but the coffee helped.  It was the whole week catching up with me.

I got to DD's daycare to find she had a sleep for the second day in a row, meaning a late night for the second night in a row! I am also missing a set of clothes from a while back when they had a messy play day at daycare.  They sent home the wrong clothes and told me today that they must have sent hers home with another mum and they haven't been returned so I probably won't get them back.  I'm annoyed with that, just because whle I don't send her in clothes she isn't allowed to get wet/dirty in, I do send her in nice clothes and it was a shirt that was bought only a month ago from the internet.  My mum thought it was a cheap one, but then realised it was from the US meaning it was in US dollars, and postage was a whole lot more than expected too!

I got home after being out of the house for 11 hours to find we had no power.  I didn't realise straight away though because it wasn't until half an hour later when I tried turning on a light and put food in the microwave it didn't work.  So I tried to call someone around here to find out if they had power and the phone didn't work! It was a cordless, duh!  So I rang from the other phone.  By this time DD was cranky, hungry, and getting impatient.  I couldn't get her a meal because even though I'd pre-cooked it, I couldn't heat it so that meant cooking a new meal entirely adding to the time she waited for.  I couldn't do it until I was off the phone as I couldn't use the cordless.  Turns out the power was turned off at the mains by some half-witted local!  By the time I got home the milk was almost at room temperature, luckily there was only other things in the fridge that weren't going to go off like a loaf of bread, eggs, fresh uncooked fruit and veg, that sort of thing.

I tried to send a text message to my mum telling her of it, and the phone wouldn't send text messages!

Exhausted and annoyed, I decided to make a cup of coffee.  No water.  So I went outside and lo and behold, as suspected after the power being turned off, the water was turned off out the front.  I threw a tantrum equivalent to that of a toddler who had a toy taken away from them because it belonged to a sibling.

I turned it on, ran a bath for DD, made a coffee for myself, pulled up a chair in the bathroom to watch DD in the bath and rang Telstra.  After 50 minutes on the phone, being passed through to a number of people, they finally worked out that the problem was that the Centre Number needed to be cleared and re-entered.  THE SAME NUMBER RE-ENTERED!!! It just had to be reset.  So now we have power, water, I can send text messages, but I'm ready for bed and DD had a sleep today so she is NOT ready for bed.

That's my week, hope it gets better next week.  I'm going to have a coffee and a cry now.  And a TIm Tam too, that'll fix everything.