Today, for the first time in ages, everyone's well, everyone went back to work and school, and I bumbled about doing normal housewifey stuff, then went back to my old gym for a workout in the afternoon, did my hair, picked up kids and went home and cooked some roast pork for the family.
It's a shame I haven't found space to blog these last few months, because only then would you realise what a complete breath of fresh air that is after all the stress and illnesses of the last 2 months.
In a nutshell, since the beginning of October:
- my hubby has been on a special project working 60 hour weeks minimum plus weekends, such that I've been essentially a single mother.
- when he comes home he is tired grumpy and miserable, so we have had a succession of stupid little rows
- my stepfather took ill and died suddenly, so I had to pull my daughter out of school and go and sort my mum out for a few weeks (I'm the only child). That was my first brush with close family bereavement and with organising a funeral and it's really taken its toll.
- Every one of us has had stomach flu over the month of November - some of us have had it 2 or 3 times.
- For the last 2 weeks the children have had a lovely cough, and last night was the first unbroken night's sleep in ages.
On top of this I've been struggling to finish the last few bits of written work for my Personal Trainer and Nutrition course and I'm also trying to potty train my son, with hit and miss results.
Strangely enough my diet has gone to heck and I haven't managed to get to the gym much. I wonder why?
looking back over my blog, November was a completely crap month last year as well. Maybe I'll take my daughter's advice and hibernate from when the clocks go back until Christmas. SOunds good to me....
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08/12/07 @ 14:52