Yoghurt

Apologies. No pictures taken today until dinnertime. So you get a yoghurt blip.

Been tired and grumpy today. Fought with a broken website for most of the morning - turns out 2 missing capital letters were to blame in the end, so why did it work for months and months and then one day decide that something needed to be in caps rather than lower case? Bah. In between fighting that, Ben obviously wanted attention and would usually start asking / demanding just at a point when I was trying to remember what I needed to do next. Stupid tired brain just can't do multi-tasking at the moment.

And because I've been tired and grumpy I've not been eating properly and so blood sugars have been fluctuating massively wildly - am contemplating just not writing certain results down in my diary.... I think it's the weekend catching up with me to be honest.

Ben's having to grow hard bits on his fingers to cope with his new drumsticks. He's rubbed the skin off in two places on the same finger from drumming sessions with his new sticks - they are quite dry sticks so must be rubbing quite badly. Guess his fingers just need to toughen up! Wonder if there's an oil that we can rub into them to make them less dry... like you treat a cricket bat with linseed...

Good things have happened today though, and I mustn't ignore them. Ben approves of the thankyou card lions that I'm making, and once he'd fallen asleep for a nap I risked running a bath knowing that Steve would be home shortly and could deal with Ben when he woke up.

He came and sat with me and told me that he wasn't going to tell me, that it was going to be a birthday surprise for the morning, but he'd booked tomorrow off as holiday for my birthday :) and thought I could do with being told today because I needed cheering up so much!!

I cried happy tears as he went to say hello to a freshly woken up Ben :)

Ben came and joined me in the bath and learnt a new trick of lying down (on my legs) so his head and ears were in the water - makes washing his hair a lot easier :) and then happily got out and spent time with Daddy while I relaxed and tried to stop feeling so sick/tired. Dinner, blip, upload, and I'm off to bed....