Category Archives: Personal

Would You Believe…

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Adam is ill again? Fever, vomiting, diarrhoea (which I can never spell the first time). This included a lovely puke at 0023 this morning. Oh and a runny nappy around 0200.

I am really beginning to think he has an allergy. His eczema flairs horribly after he’s been playing outside. We spent quite a bit of time outside on Sunday. Sunday night his eczema was very bad in big patches. Monday morning the first fever appeared.

The GPs don’t seem to be listening to me when I enquire if this is more than just bad luck. I get knowing looks and metaphorical pats on the back when I suggest there might be a greater cause.

We will be seeing our Health Visitor on Friday for his 2 year check and I am going to see if she can get him referred to allergy or paediatrician or someone who can maybe run an allergy test or something and see if I am right.

Even if he’s too young for treatment, maybe we can adjust his diet or be ready to react when he’s been outside or something.

And if she can’t do anything? Mama Bear is going to come out at the GP next week.

The same Mama Bear who came out and insisted I get some tests and not just keep taking sleeping pills when I stopped sleeping about 4 years ago. The one who got me a diagnosis of Fibro and pain clinic management and acupuncture.

So watch out. Here she comes…

It Has Recently Occured to Me

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That I don’t think I’ve ever posted about why I am Tee.

And Tee I am. All over the ‘net.

On Mumsnet and elsewhere I am Tee2072. I can’t tell you what the numbers mean. It’s a secret. Really. It is.

But the Tee part of my name came about just about 10 or so years ago when my brother’s oldest daughter, S, was learning to talk.

I was living in California then, close by to them, and saw my niece several times a week. And was referred to as Aunty Robyn. And S would say ‘T!’

We assumed she just couldn’t say Aunty so all that came out was T!

I have a vague memory of discussing with my brother and sister in law whether or not we should encourage her to use my full name or not. And I realized I liked it that she had a name for me no one else had.

When my brother, who is a big old geek and hosts this site and my company website and blog and just generally keeps me up and running, set up our family domain, on which this blog sits, he asked me what I wanted my email address to be. And I said Tee.

And so TeeMail (see what I did there?) was born.

And then I joined some message board that needed a user name. And I chose Tee.

And now I am Tee2072 all over the ‘net.

I still have TeeMail.

This is Tee’s Blog.

My company is Designed To A Tee.

And lots and lots of people call me Tee.

All because a wonderful little girl, who is now 11 and starting middle school in the fall, couldn’t say Aunty.

Or so we presumed…

 

I Just Want To Put Here

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For the record that Sheppard’s Pie made with leftover lamb and veg is not as nice as made from raw and slow cooked. It was edible and had fresh mash but it just wasn’t the same.

In other news, we haven’t found a new place to live yet but our landlord is being incredible and not only letting us go month to month starting in August but is also slightly reducing our rent. He’s also agreed to reduce it further if we decide a new place is just not available and we agree to sign at least a 6 month lease.

In other, other news even if we don’t move we are having a massive clear out. Our hope is to lose at least one bookcase and to get rid of all of Adam’s baby stuff. *sniff*.

Which reminds me. Look who can drink out of a cup: –

Look at MEEE!!!!

Playing With My Son

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Today Adam and I are off to view at flat at noon so have spent the morning playing in the house. He watched some CBeeBies, managed to draw on the front room door while I was on the phone, so had timeout (it wiped right off, BTW), played with his barn and then sort of wandered around so I asked him if he’d like to play with puzzles? He loves puzzles so I got an enthusiastic nod of the head.

Now anyone who has read this blog for more than 2 seconds knows I have some minor mobility issues so playing on the floor is very very hard for me. Alas, the puzzle Adam picked was this Tractor Floor Puzzle that his aunt and uncle sent him for his birthday

I love this puzzle with it’s big colourful pieces and interesting ending shape but it has to be put together on the floor or a table. Adam isn’t quite up to sitting at the table so on the floor I go. Which hurts.

But I do it anyway, because it’s a chance to sit with my son and do something we both enjoy. Once it was together I suggested he grab one of his board ones that can be done sitting in my lap but he was done with puzzles just then.

So maybe I can’t play with hours on the floor, or run around after him the way Simon does, but we do play. In fact, he’s just brought me a board puzzle. I think we have just enough time to do it before we have to get ready to go out.

 

Just A Quick What The Heck Is Going On Update

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Adam ill again.

Me swamped with work.

Simon swamped with work.

Looking for a place to live.

Trying to keep up with household and business accounts.

Couple of evening video gigs.

Simon’s parents down this past weekend.

Adam adding words daily including ‘Oh Dear’ from his grandad this weekend! This culminated in him deliberately dropping food off his highchair yesterday saying ‘Oops. Oh Dear.’

So life is good. If a bit frantic!!!

Another Sleep Deprived Night

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Adam has been ill again and so not sleeping great. I helped that some what the night before last by sleeping with him but last night I was out at a gig and Simon decided he was well enough to sleep in his own bed.

Unfortunately, that was a wrong plan. Adam woke up about 130, apparently, and wouldn’t resettle. I finally heard him (I was in the spare room as it was my ‘night off’) around 230 and moved Simon to the spare room and got into bed with Adam. At 330 Adam was done even lying down. So we are in the front room, Adam is playing and I am writing this blog post. In about an hour I’ll get Simon up and I’ll get a couple of more hours before Simon needs to get to work. I have a ton of work to do today as well so I’ll see how Adam is and if he seems okay send him off to daycare as usual. Well, not usual, he usually goes on Thursdays, but I switched it last week so I could process the video from last night’s gig. But if he’s impossible he’ll stay with me and I’ll work around him. It’s not ideal, but I’ve done it before.

So I have decided that we are going back to co-sleeping. Adam has not been sleeping well, or all night, in his own bed and I am done with my own sleep being disrupted to bring him into bed and shift everyone around in the middle of the night. Some will say Simon and I have ‘made a rod for our own back’ on this issue, but I think that phrase means nothing. My goal is to get everyone as much sleep as possible. If that means going back to co-sleeping, such is life. It won’t be forever.

This Too Shall Pass. I wonder if I have the skills to embroider that on a sofa cushion…

Some of You Might Have Noticed

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I have removed the British Mummy Bloggers badge from the site and am now a part of Mumsnet Bloggers Network.

I have to say I was getting nothing out of BMM. I found their message boards unwieldy and, to be honest, the topics sort of boring. I haven’t officially un-joined, but I haven’t posted over there in about a year, so I’ve moved on.

Mumsnet, on the other hand…

I’ve been a member over there since about October 2008, or just after I found out I was pregnant. A good friend of mine already posted there and I asked her if it was worth it. Hell yes she said!

And she was right. From the ‘Born in June 2009′ thread to the ’40 Towers, Mums over 40’ to ‘The One Child Tea Room’ I have found my home from home. I also post on other discussions. There is always something going on, I like the format and I have fun.

And now they are forming a bloggers network.

So what do MN bloggers blog about?

Being mums. Running companies. Throwing parties. Taking care of ageing parents. Living in Switzerland.

Basically the same things the rest of us blog about.

But now we have a badge! And our own thread on MN!

So if you belong to MN and have a blog? Apply to join us. We love reading blogs nearly as much as we love writing them!!

Once Again

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Happy Birthday to Adam who is 2 today!!

Some pictures:

Opening Presents

All his loot.

LIft! Lift! Lift!

Waiting to ride the lift at Victoria Square, his birthday treat. (Ah to be 2!)

Who me?

Cake!!!

And, for the record, we did our best to measure him today.  Just about 36 inches. They say double it to find his adult height. So just about 6 feet. Not taller than Daddy as we thought he would be (Simon is 6’2″) but definitely taller than Mama!

I wonder how long I have until that happens…