Well, it's been a while! In my defence I have been extremely busy - January was school holidays, so had both kids home, and February.... well, I am not sure where February went, but it did go somewhere!
Miss A is in grade four this year, and loving it, which is fantastic. I can't believe she turns nine years old tomorrow - where did those years go? She is so tall and lanky and 'grown up' now - my 'little' girl has gone. She has ordered her birthday cakes - a 'horse' cake for home, and a number '9' cake for school, decorated with marshmellow and smartie flowers. She did want a gum tree shaped cake with leaves and koalas for school, so think I did quite well limiting it to a number 9! So I am spending any free moment today baking! I must look a bit of a wreck at the moment - I am VERY huge with this pregnancy, even with 2 months to go, so my shirt has a big smudge area right across the stomach from flour/sugar/cocoa and goodness knows what else, even with the tea towel attractively tucked in at my neckline like a napkin! And Master S has been very ill, and had me up a lot at night for the last few days, so keep forgetting to brush my hair etc - almost took Miss A to school in my pyjamas today!
My poor little fellow has been so sick - ear infections, high temps, asthma.... He is sleeping at the moment, thank goodness, so I get a chance to do a few things. I have spent most of the last few days cuddling him on the lounge watching Thomas the Tank Engine - if only he was like my daughter and liked animal documentaries or Top Gear! I have the Thomas opening song permanently in my head, and it scares me that I can now quote all the lyrics! I was humming it in the shower yesterday - that really can't be good!
We've spent close to $150 on scripts for him over the last week, with two lots of bronchidilators, 2 lots of antibiotics, prednisone, not to mention the nurofen and spare nebuliser mask we had to get - it gets so expensive. There goes the grocery money this week! So hard to budget on a single wage. We don't live extravagantly in the least - don't eat out, don't go to the movies, don't rent dvds, don't go away on holidays except to stay with the in-laws - so very hard to cut something out. We have only one computer (and it is on it's way out), my laptop died ages ago. My camera broke (hence no pictures on my blogs for a while), my mobile phone broke. Private health insurance is expensive, but we can't drop it because then I cannot receive treatment - there is no treatment in the public health system for my condition, just symptom management. On top of private health insurance we had over $10 000 worth of out of pocket medical expenses last tax year. My scripts alone are about $100 a month. That is a quarter of my husband's wage gone in medical stuff alone. The mortgage takes out another quarter, and tax (he is a contractor, so pays tax later) another quarter. Doesn't leave much left to live on - bills, food, petrol, clothes, school expenses, car maintenance etc. Feel like I am drowning.
Anyway, 7 weeks till the new bubby due... I am gi-normous! Bigger than I was with the others even at full-term. If my husband cracks one more Greenpeace needing to rescue me joke I may have to kill him! I am getting sick of people at the shops/at the beach asking me if it is twins, and when I am due because I 'look like I am about to pop'... I do like the look on their face when I reply 'just a single baby, and not due for 2 months!'.... they tend to slink away embarrassed! I am over the hot weather.
Don't know if I mentioned it before or not, but Miss A has decided that having a two-year old brother is a bit like 'having a pet chimpanzee'! She tries to teach him tricks!
Anyway, off for a nap... busy afternoon of cake icing, tea making, obstetrician visits, comforting a sick child and trying to calm an excited one!
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