At last, I got my foto friday with photos on! Copy, cut & paste - eh what's going on?

I've been poorly all weekend. I felt all PMTish on Friday, with a sore tummy, but it seemed unlikely to be that ;-). Although my tummy's been slightly upset, it's not really that either. It got worse during the evening. I couldnt get comfy Friday night and only got snatches of sleep all night. As a result I woke up on Saturday and quickly got a migraine as tiredness is one of my triggers. But the tummy ache seemed to have gone away. I wore a gell-patch all afternoon and another one all evening (never tried before but I can now recommend them now). Sophie wouldnt settle and so I went to bed at 9pm.

By 5.40am I'd had enough sleep, but I felt reasonable. But by breakfast time I felt rough again in the tummy dept. I was well enough again by 10 to go to church, where one of my friends said she'd had a non-descript tummy ache last week. Sophie was miserable in creche. Numbers are low as 3 weeks ago one little boy came down with chicken pox. Now, several of the kids there have it, so I'm watching Soph like a hawk!

I skipped one meal yesterday and two today - boy am I hungry! Sophie fell asleep in the car on the way home and slept about 150minutes. I got her out and offered her a late lunch, but she turned down most of it. So we went out in the garden, where Em was assisting daddy with the summerhouse project. I started to feel very sore tummied and cold (it was gales here today, but it seemed odd as I dont normally feel the cold, whereas Al, who does, was fine in a T-shirt). I came indoors and sat on the sofa, and I started to shake with "cold"  - actually I was burning up. Al came in and got me 2 paracetamol and I went to bed. Em said she had a tummy ache too - not sure whether she's just copying me, I hope so!

Alan gave Em just dry toast for tea, at her request, and Sophie ate well. He's still fine. I fed Sophie to sleep (and she got fed up with me poking her in the eye with my nipples as she has a slightly sticky/pink eye which I dont want to get any worse) and then I took some ibuprofen. It took about 1 hour for the paracetamol to stop the shivering, and in that time I realised that the tips of my fingers and toes felt all pins & needly - odd. Thanks to the painkillers, I'm faily ok right now, but nervous about tonight & tomorrow. What a weird illness!

Here are a couple of recent pictures.

Above is some writing Em did at school, all about having a go at basket ball and scoring on the last go (managed it!). She is so brave just going for it, and seems to be learning fast. I'm so proud of her!

Here is Sophie helping me mop the floors last week! I have a microfibre cover for my broom which can be used damp, so it was perfectly safe to let her help me - no chemicals, no bucket - hurray!

When Sophie saw this stepladder she raced straight to the top of it and sat down - just like she does on Emma's slide. I'm very relieved to say she didnt proceed to slide off it but I did wonder!