Turns out I wasn't as ready as I thought

I managed to get C & D off to school on the first day relatively well. Photos were taken. No tears were shed.
But the rest of the day wasn't so smooth. E wanted to buy ham after dropped off dad at the train station. I wasn't planning a shopping trip but off we went. That went fine. I just strapped them both in the tolley and they can't get into too much trouble. It actually was good to buy a few things to add to our flood-emptied fridge.
But the big problem came from my one planned activity to occupy E. I thought making cupcakes would be a hit. It turned out she was too busy with TV to help at any steps other than making the icing and getting them out of the oven. Making the icing went fine. But she touched the pan on the way out of the oven. Such a bad mum. I totally forgot that she hasn't had the don't touch drummed into her quite as much as the older girls who usually help. Ouch. So much crying. She eventually cried herself to sleep after demanding a bandaid and an icepack. I know either of those things would help a burn (both would make it worse probably) but she was inconsolable.
But the cupcakes were yummy.

Nearly ready.

I'm nearly ready for Monday.
I'm nearly ready to send a second daughter off to school.
I'm nearly ready to make more school labels.
I'm nearly ready to try to occupy my 2 youngest daughters without their big sisters around.
I'm nearly ready to run another load of washing.
I'm nearly ready to get some sleep.
Nearly ready.

Hello again.

Well don't really know where to begin. So much has happened. We have had a lovely holiday at Caloundra (Sunshine Coast).
We came back to a very wet Brisbane, that only got wetter. There has been major flooding to our suburb and allow we weren't directly affected it has been a stressful time watching and waiting to see where the water would stop.
As we were away for more than I week we need to use tablets for F. These were crushed and added to food, usually apple puree which she loves. Thankfully we were given more tablets than we actually needed. This meant we actually had enough medication to cover the time we couldn't get to the hospital because of flooding. Even if we could have got there the fact her medication needs to kept cold would have been had with no electricity for 4 days.
F was also sick in the last week, just a cold, but her BGLs were only slightly higher. Yay.

Clinic visit

On the 20th F had a review appointment at the hospital. I was very happy to be able to tell the doctor how well things have been going since transferring to oral medication. She has been able to eat a lot more and has great BGL's. I don't have to restrict how much fruit she eats or "carb count" every bit. F is loving eat. Even refusing more pasta, which totally unheard of while on insulin.
Today we were able to give her all sorts of Christmas goodies and she loved it.
Our next appointment is at the end of January.

Merry Christmas!!

It's most probably a bit late in the day to wish everyone a Merry Christmas but I have finally had time to sit at the computer.
It has been a very full day of family meals and DD's unwrapping numerous gifts. It fun to see which presents make a real impact. It's sometimes the most simple (bubble mix) and I'm left wondering why we go to the effort of getting the some of the other bigger gifts.

A day full of ....

Busyness.
Today my mum came to visit and we spent the morning doing Christmas shopping. Then it was a quick lunch with the children in the food court and one more store. All the shopping meant that we had to go directly to F's appointment. Nana entertained the other DD's at the local library.

Good news.
The appointment for F was with the Physio and Speech & Language Pathologist at the Child Health Centre. They are happy with how her gross motor skills have come along since first seeing her at 7 months. She wouldn't take weight through her legs at all. She wouldn't bounce when held standing on my lap but now she is walking and crawling up stairs. Only slightly behind "normal".
I still have some things to do at home with her to help her wih her fine motor skills and to actually get her "talking". I think she will be fine. Now that her diabetes is diagnosed and better controlled on the oral drugs she is healthier and happier.

Bad behaviour.
Taking 4 children to a shopping centre for 4 hours lends itself to all sorts of opportun9ities for the DD to misbehave. I was reminded why I don't do it often. I was also remind why my kids are banned from standing on the edge of the trolley. A bad accident was very narrowly averted.
There were times when I was reminded that they can behave will but they were few.
It is times like these I question my parenting skill and just have to pray to strength.

Bathroom nearly complete

Our bathroom saga is nearly over. Everything looks great and there is just a couples of things to finish off. DH needs to do some painting over the Christmas break.
It has been an expensive renovation. Paying twice is never a good idea but the bad job done before is now in the past.