Life on the sofa - asleep again

Gotta love my boy. Text from mum yesterday evening saying "Ben is waiting at the top of the stairs for you, refusing to move." Maaaan it nearly broke my heart. 20 minutes later we finally got home and the first thing I hear is "Mummy LOOK!! I'm playing STAR WARS!" He was playing angry birds on mum's phone. It took half an hour before he would even say hello properly and give me a hug and for a little while I was actually beginning to wonder if he'd weaned. (No such joy...!)

Charley was overjoyed to see Ben. He could hardly contain himself, wriggling free of our arms to get down, squealing with joy as he almost ran into the living room to see his big brother!

So my parents went home today - and I cried :( Ben refused to even say goodbye, let alone wave them off. He didn't want them to go either. At least he got dressed before me though, and while I resumed my hunt for the missing lino cut Steve took Charley with him to take Ben down to school on his bike. I've tidied both my office spaces. It wasn't there. Eventually I looked in the pile by the back door and halleluja there it was!! Two minutes later my phone beeped and with a shock I realised it was my ten minute warning for my first diabetes review in over a year - I've never got dressed and out the door so quickly in my life.

Review went well and I'm finally being sent for tests to decide what type of MODY diabetes I have. New diabetologist is lovely thank goodness and seems very clued up. Chatted about diet and injecting and weight and stuff - my BMI is 19.something which is a little on the low side and I know why, it's because I will often elect not to eat carbs simply because I can't face another injection. Or I'll have a big dose of insulin with breakfast, and eat to combat the beginnings of a hypo later on, and then skip lunch altogether. And yes I'm hungry by dinnertime and will have a carby dinner if I can but I really need to stop skipping meals. Anyway we discussed going back onto tablets and basically if I think I can cope with the two-week insulin cold turkey / weaning period to get onto tablets, I should go for it and we'll have a six-month tablet-controlled period before switching back to insulin. So if you see me eating nothing but carbs and protein over the next couple of weeks it's so that when I go cold turkey off the insulin I don't waste away to nothing :-/

Ben came home and he and Charley sat on the sofa together with their drinks, sharing a banana - very civilised! And very cute ;-) But not a great time to get the camera out as it was non-stop requests for this or that. Then yummy comfort food moussaka for dinner courtesy of mum, and playtime until the boys (and Steve) were worn out. They ALL fell asleep on the sofa. And I've been happily printing more Christmas cards now my precious lino has been found! It may still be a very limited edition Christmas card though, as my tiny little roller for the paint is slowly giving up... I think I might sign and date this lino cut and not use it again. This year's card :) A new cut next year!