Errands and Errors

Posted by Deb on Tuesday December 20, 2005 at 8:36 am

Scratchy came home on an early lunch yesterday, as the new (to us) living-room furniture was arriving. The kids and I had the whole room cleared out and cleaned before he came back, then he and the kids managed to get the sofa-bed upstairs (with much puffing and grunting and the loss of some skin from one of George’s fingers, which came close to causing a riot but didn’t!) Once the furniture was in, we didn’t even put the cushions on before charging out to the car to take Scratchy back to work. Headed off to buy more certificate frames - I’d found some a couple of weeks ago for Â£2 each, but hadn’t bought enough, and of course when I went back for more yesterday, there weren’t any. With luck they’ll get more in after Christmas. Got the kids some lunch and went off to do a bit more shopping, then back to pick up Scratchy. An afternoon isn’t really much time to get anything done in, especially when you’ve to feed your four older kids and stop to feed your youngest every so often!

Anyway, home and Scratchy made dinner (burgers - Freddy mentioned that you “can put custard on burgers” - turned out he meant mustard LOL) while I sorted out the living-room, and it does look nice Barney had his Scouts Christmas outing last night - they were going bowling, and he had to be dropped off at 6.50 - and George had ju-jitsu starting 10 minutes later, about 15 minutes away - Freddy went with them too and Scratchy did some errands in-between leaving and collecting George, and again before getting Barney. So it was a pretty quiet evening for me - or would have been, except for Jack’s incessant chatter-instead-of-going-to-sleep I spent a long time on the phone with a friend who has just stopped breastfeeding because she’s going back to work and wasn’t told she could mix breast and bottle - and she also wasn’t told not to stop suddenly, so she’s feeling rough. She phoned a health visitor the day after she stopped, and asked if she could put the baby back to her breast, and was told that because she’d taken epsom salts, “it’s too late now, that would make the baby very sick”. Having checked into this, it turns out to be completely wrong *sigh*. Why can’t health professionals stop making stuff up! Anyway, we’d a long chat and now she’s got some decent information and I hope she’ll be able to sort it all out.