I have not had a chance to be on Minti much as life has been hectic and the 3 cherubs are not playing the game at the moment.....Silly season has sett in.
The following is just from last night...The rest of my week has been pretty full on too....I hope some can see the humour as last night I was not....
The baby has an infected toenail (in grown) and has done on and off since birth...The skin was grown over the nail ans every now and then it flairs up...We have been managing it quite well with the salt water etc...But this week it got really bad - gross...So off to the drs and now on Anti biotics....Did anyone Know that the infection can spread to the joints and is quite bad??? I did not, my poor little cherub....Anyway since starting the Anti biotics he is so very grizzly, doesn't want to be held, doesn't want to be left alone cant go to sleep on his own and keeps waking with in 20 mins or so....The poor little bugger....So the nurofen and panadol are now on board...
But to top this off the eldest cherub woke up this morning vomiting....Yay up all night with the babe and then vomit first thing....She has spent the day on the couch just sleeping and fighting a fever....Finally got her to eat something tonight...She was just so pale.....
The middle cherub was ok a little sooky and bouncing off the walls cause she wasn't sick but no one wanted to play....Poor little thing she was trying to be so good and quiet cause brother and sister sick....Then dad came home she had a little tantrum so he put her to bed....Now at that time I had three screaming cherubs....
I have not had much sleep as you can see from above but then to top it off we had RAIN here in Melbourne Yesterday and last night....And a couple of weeks ago partner put in 2 1000 ltre rain tanks but did not hook up the overflow 'as it doesnt rain much here' (famous last words) anyway at 3 in the morning I am outside trying to empty out the tanks as they are bulging and overflowing....I am bucketing it to the vegie patch (that can always do with more!!!) feeding the lemon tree, pumping it on to the lawn and finally when I was wringing wet and the little cherub is still screaming me with tears in my eyes and heart had to let go of some of the water just down the drain....I am in awe at how much water we catch off the roof....Just a little example when we have 1.5mm rain we get about 200 odd ltres in the tank... This is quite amazing and such a waste for all the homes that dont have tanks.....This is what all homes need...(I know not a solution for all - but with the water crisis, maybe the government could be addressing this as a necessity in not just new homes but established homes too...)
Anyway I was stuck inside for about 2 hours with babies and vomit and crying and unable to move my partner when finally at 7am I check outside and lo and behold the tanks are full again....!!!! I have no idea what to do with the water and am at my wits end... Finally think I will have to throw a bucket of the precious stuff over partner (but that would make me cry too as I would have to clean it up...haha!) When he finally gets up to find out what the commotion is!!!
Anyway he goes outside and disconnects the down pipes to the tanks - Now Why did I not think of that and do it!!!!
Anyway all little cherubs are in bed and finally I hope will sleep and get better and let me sleep too, I have ordered dinner cause I just can not cook and am waiting for that to arrive so that I can I hope get some sleep.....
I hope we still get more Rain here in Melbourne and it falls in all the right catchment areas and that not too many people are or were as wet as me.....It is funny now that I look back at the night - a comedy of not water tight proportions.....But we got some RAIN...YEAH!!!!
I hope to catch up with my minti friends and their news in their blogs but I hope you can forgive me for not touching base because it will not be tonight I am too Tired......
One exhausted Spinnychic saying goodnight.....
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