We're going to visit our friends son today in hospital. He was supposed to get home last weekend as he was responding well to the chemo, but he took an infection and has been isolated all week. He's well enough for visitors today, so we're going to visit. I'm not sure what to take? I was thinking colouring books and crayons.

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It's freezing, Carly is covered in Hot chocolate and Kay kleft her gloves on the train..her sleeves aren't supposed to look that long.
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How strange it is that the summer holidays are over already for Kayleigh. Gary slept through the alarm, but i woke up dead on 7.30am and got back into school mode as though the summer holidays had never happened. Typically, just like i remember from my own childhood, it was pissing down with rain. Gary made up her packed lunch, and i made her eggs ( Read more... )

I just dreamt about the bogey man for the first time in years. I was in a weird perversion of my mums house, i often dream i am somewhere but then realise it's really somewhere else. It was late, christmas time i think and i'd been walking to my mums after a party (I was with the tall woman from Deuce Bigalow). I went to sleep in a single bed in ( Read more... )

Back to school tomorrow. Kayleigh, that is.
This year, since i won't be juggling uni, and since i will hopefully be able to get the council sitter service to help with childcare, i think her routine will be much better.
I always felt as though everything was a rush last year.

I am absolutely knackered. The kids have been sent to bed, and are still messing around a bit in their room. Both of them are ready to drop so i'm leaving them to tire themselves out ( Read more... )

I don't know if i'm ok with not going back to uni this yr. I'm skeered.

People are wonderful. We see so many people in the news or whatever who do such awful things and yet in general so many people i know have genuine hearts. To tell people you have never met, in a journal, and on online forums about a little boy and his family who need thoughts and prayers and to get genuine concern, and promises of Prayers and ( Read more... )