Introduction

Hi Amelie
Welcome to Onespace. I hope you feel comfortable to have a good on rant on here whenever you need to as this is the place to really say how things are and hopefully you will feel very supported and understood by a group of people who can share similar experiences with you and help you to feel less alone with it all. Check you the differnt topics and get stuck in and feel free to start any new topics you feel a need.
Chat again soon
Cheers C-L

Hi Amelie, welcome! :)

Can I ask, since it'll be me in a few years ... what's it like living on your own with a teenage boy? I wanted a boy (and I got one) because I reckoned a teenage boy would be much less work that girl, but I'm interested to hear it from the frontline!

I can only conclude that my dad wanted me to die in some horrific motorbiking accident, yet more evidence to prove that I was in fact adopted and they never loved me : )

I was only joking :D they were just right on hippy liberal types who said stuff like 'yes dear if it makes you happy' , or 'Why don't you try it dear and see what happens', or 'if you are going to rebel could you go and do it quietly somewhere else please dear'.

: )

Weather naff here too, the wind is terrible. My son and I were literally blown to school. (got us there quicker though)!

My ten year old was sailing this morning at Plas Menai.

Seeing a major gale force wind whipped up while they were out on the water gave them a very exciting experience!

Oh yes, and the rain came down again...

Not this week! :D

I've done the Scout first aid course today - should come in handy :roll: :lol: 8-)

She's ok thanks. She's fed up of the cast now - who can blame her? Don't think she's too keen on her mother barging into the bathroom and scrubbing hair and armpits on her behalf!! We have a good laugh though, so I hope I'm not traumatising her too much.

Waiting for the school nurse to come about the youngest :shock: Late again... Not a bit late either! Usually she phones up a lot later to apologise for not coming or to confirm the 'wrong' day.

At least my kitchen is tidy :D She has to sit in here as the chairs in the living room are too low for me.

Hi Sparklinglime - hope the wait for the nurse is not too long although on a day like this it must be quite nice to have an excuse to stay in isn't it?! Has your daughter been able to get everyone to sign and draw on the cast? I broke my wrist when I was little and that was the best bit. The worst bit was having itches under the cast that couldn't be scratched! Had to get a pencil and poke it in and wriggle it around!
C-L

She has a suspected cracked scaphoid bone in her wrist. Her plaster makes her look like she's doing a thumbs up sign! I tease her, but she's very good humoured about it. She got blown of a windsurf board simulator with the Splash thing they've been doing with the Scouts. Their first accident in 25 years!! My daughter is impressed with that :D

School nurse didn't come, but said she would call this afternoon. I've had a message left to say she's ill and will phone next week to re-arrange :roll: Every appointment has been broken. I know that my youngest's issues aren't life threatening, but even so, no wonder I give up chasing them.

Social Services is here at the mo, fitting grab rails by my back door and on the wall by the bath. He's measuring up to make a step by my back door and to make a base to raise the level of the armchair in the living room - which I've not sat on for over 9 months as my leg locks when I get up.

I've also had a request for two photos and £2 for the blue badge too, which has been approved.

Makes me feel quite pathetic really. Yet I know I really don't have much choice.

"cracked scaphoid bone" sounds hideous!! Poor thingm but it sounds as if she is being quite lighthearted about it (I wonder where she gets that from?! :? :lol:) Your scouts sounds like great fum, all we ever did in brownies was sing songs and make sandwiches and beds!!

How frustrating about the school nurse, you knew she wouldn't come, but you still have to arrange your day around them, in case they actually DO turn up. :shock:

Great to hear you hare having all sorts of new fixtures and fittings to make your life easier, I think it sounds quite exciting! Did they decide you could have a shower in the end?

Don't feel pathetic, this is all good stuff to enhance your life. One of my best frineds has a blue badge and its great!! It means she can do the things she needs to without the worry and it means free parking, hooray! Indulge yourself with it, its about time someone started looking out for you :)

I've had a bath-board Anna. It takes courage to use it though! I take my time. I've had a grab rail put on the bath too, but not quite in a helpful place. Never mind. Having a shower is lovely!

I've been trying to print a photo off for the badge. Either too big or too small. You think they'd give passport option in these photo-wizard sites. :lol: