It's A Wickett World

13 January 2009

When you have children,

all dignity goes out the door....someone quoted this to me whilst I was in a hospital waiting room pre Munchkin.

These last few days have been spent drawing support (and sympathy) from close friends and family. The Chief Oracle as been on duty as have Ah Ee, Ah Ma, GAF, Aunty Air-lass and Aunty Sal. The topic of conversation has mainly been descriptions of chunder, restorative diet and after effects of the bug.

The quote of all quotes though, was this "Malfunctions in the digestive tract invariably cause results outside normal parameters at the input and output ports eventually"

You know who you are, hats off to you for making me smile on a very dreary day!

What is mine, is yours.....

Munhckin has been home experiencing mummy day care today as he is still recuperating from his latest malady. While he has been chiling out with his home girl, he has been getting lots of attention from his Ah Ee in particular who has been ringing a few times a day, checking up on progress in the recovery department.

Munchkin adores his Ah Ee so much so that everything he has, he wants to share with her. Today, Ah Ee (also known as the telephone) was given some crackers. She has also previously been given sausages (and he will not part with sausages for many others) and cheese.

However, this afternoon, following his p.m. helping of Ah Ee love, Munchkin decided that he was going to post one of his favourite boots to Ah Ee. "Boot.....Letters....Ah Ee....!" he exclaimed as he grinned at me. "Mummy, Picture!"

Hmm...Ah Ee has a lot to answer for. 11 months is a long time....but it will be worth the wait.

12 January 2009

Chunder Cat is on the move

Chunder Cat is loose; Heaving, puking everywhere; Chunder Cat has spewed!

Here is the Munchkin this morning. He is home with us today (yes, both of us). Poor Munchkin has a malady. It all started at midnight (Sat/Sun) when we returned from a bit of a work shindig which was, well, amusing. He started calling out for "mummy" and being very unhappy. His evil mummy comforted him for a whil and left him to sort himself out....which he did....eventually.

After allowing us a lie in on Sunday morning, he woke and had breakfast as normal. We then went off the the supermarket to stock up on some food for the week. But this was not to be as, whilst being strapped into the trolley outside (fortunately) Munchkin got reacquianted with his breakfast sharing it with Daddy, the trolley and the pavement below.

We got him cleaned and proceeded to shop as he seemed ok. Then half way through we had a repeat performance. Enough was enough....out we dashed in a nick of time as more was to follow. We managed to pack up and arrive home in tact and Munckin proceeded to give us an encore every hour for the next 6 or so hours.

We put him to bed after bath and didn't hear anything from him till this morning when we went in to discover that he had been poorly overnight. Munchkin was changed and cleaned up by the staff only to have a repeat performance of the same.

All in all T and I have had 1 full clothes change each and Munchkin has had 2 so far. He has managed some dry crackers, a few bits of boiled potato, plenty of water and a handful of Cheerios. We have yet to be reacquianted with that lot...at the time of writing. Munchkin has just gone down for a sleep.

I only wish I could be ill for him....to spare him another miserable day.

06 January 2009

In the chill of the night....and day...

It has been a cold day here. Overnight last night, temperatures dropped to -7 degrees Celcius. Today, the temperaure never got past 3 degrees. Tonight, it is predicted to drop even lower.

Munchkin has been tucked up in bed with extra clothing and an electric heater on a thermostat.

We are anticipating a very icy start to the morning tomorrow.

I bet we would have had to keep the heating on all night had the forrins still been here! As it is we are thankful for the snuggly cats who are functioning as hot water bottles in bed at night.

The cold matches my mood really since the forrins left....I have been left with a void and a hope that they will return soon....I really miss them..no one has told me off in days nor has anyone pulled me up on the fact that I am, indeed, a grumpy cow. What is truly warming is that despite that, they love me..just as I am. And that makes me glad!

05 January 2009

White Christmas....11 days late!

Our road this morning just before we left for work. The snow didn't last but for a little while, the fresh snow lay crisp and even. Ah for it to be Christmas day again!