Good afternoon everyone, yes I am here, I have not dropped dead or found myself in hospital although I can understand if you thought there was something wrong since I have not been here writing a post in days. I had planned to write one yesterday but just never got around to it, so here I am writing this on a Monday afternoon.

Well let’s go back in time a little and I mean a little till 1am Friday morning I got up to go to the toilet and while I was in the bathroom Kelli knocks on the door and wants me to go into her room and look at Daemon

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So I did and he sounds terrible, he was coughing and having trouble breathing after a few minutes I said to her “get dressed we are going to the hospital” I went in got dressed told Tim we were taking Daemon to the John Hunter (hospital) and we left. We arrived at the hospital around 2am and we didn’t leave till 6.45am, anyway Daemon has croup, now days the give the child 5mls of Prednisone and watch them for 4 hours and if the child has improved they send you home and tell you to follow up with your GP in 2 days’ time, so he took him back to the doctors today at 11am, he has been put on prednisone again for another 3 days as he still has the cough mostly at night but that is usually when croup rears its ugly head.

In fact Friday night his mother went out for her birthday, she turned 20 on Friday and had planned to go out for the night with her cousin Jessica (my daughter) and a friend named Jordan and even though Daemon was sick and she thought about cancelling she went because I made her…………lol

I told her that he would be fine and I would ring her if he was bad and needed to go to the JHH again.

Turned out he slept fine Friday night, and was ok Saturday & Sunday but let’s move onto Saturday I had a birthday lunch her for Kelli. I invited her parents and brother Vaughan and sister Heather along with my daughters and her grandparents, as it turned out because Daemon was contagious Kathy & Summer didn’t come and neither did Sandra & her girls or my dad but there was 9 adults here and Blain & Leo as well and Kelli seemed to have a good time. She was surprised that her parents and siblings came or that I invited them not sure which, Kelli has told me that she had not had a lot of good birthdays and I wanted to make this one a special one for her.

Saturday night Kathy rang me and said that she would be sending Summer to Michaels mother’s house every Wednesday while she is at work because I am too busy to watch her and she doesn’t think it is right that I get Kelli to watch her while I drive Leo to school or go and pick Leo up from school. She went on and one about how busy I am and how I don’t have time for her or her girls because I am always busy helping Jessica with Leo that I ended up breaking down and was sobbing because I was so upset. In the end Leo took the phone off me and talked to her before giving it to papa, I could hear Leo asking his way she made nanny cry. I getting upset caused both Kelli and Jes to get angry with Kathy and Jes took it upon herself to send Kathy a couple of texts about it what was said is between them.

Anyway Kathy came out here yesterday to talk to me yes Jenny (Michael’s mum) will have Summer every Wednesday but I will watch her each Tuesday morning while Kathy takes Sydney to swimming lessons and I will also watch her on Saturday’s while Kathy does her grocery shopping this is ok with me and I am happy now.

The way Kathy talked on Saturday night I felt like I had failed her again as a mother and that was why I was crying so much, while I was upset Daemon went and brought me his Micky Mouse and Leo gave me his Spiderman and Big Bird to hold to comfort me and help me calm down. They were both so cute both upset to see me crying, really the best medicine when one is upset is the love and compassion of a small child.

So Sunday turned out a good day I got to see my granddaughters and despite what Kathy seems to think at times I do love to see them but no I don’t got to them very often at all because I am so busy I don’t usually have the time to just drive over there on the off chance they will be home to pop in to see them. This annoys Kathy because Jenny will just drive over to see them at times, however, as I said to Kathy Jenny doesn’t have any other grandchildren living around her to have to help with her other two grandchildren live in Queensland.

Well I want to get this posted before Kelli gets back from dropping Leo at school and we have to go out to do some shopping so that is all for this post.

Can you remember when we used mobile phones to make phone calls? I do I can remember when this thing called texting was all new and it wasn’t all that popular, now days we send so many text messages. In fact some of the text messages I have sent are bloody long indeed, I know that it is called a “sms” short message service but hell my texts are often anything but short………………..lol

When I send a text I don’t shorten my words or use just the letters of the words as pictured above, well not very often I don’t just use “k” instead of “ok” I can’t see the point and yes I do get that it is all about using as few characters as possible but for some reason I am not worried about that.

So do you send a lot of text messages or, do you prefer to ring and speak to a person, I find if I am watching tv or using the computer I prefer to send a message over making a phone call.

What do you think of the above list of abbreviations? Me I think they are funny and think it would be cool if they were used.

Do you remember when television was first invented, no not that old, ok how about when colour tv first came to Australia, what still not that old. Well I am I do remember when colour tv first came out here in Australia in fact my parents were the first people in the street to get a colour tv. I remember the neighbour kids thought we were rich or something since when they first came out here they cost a pretty penny indeed, my uncle John said to dad that he should had waited a year or two as the price would come down, dad told him he didn’t want to wait he wanted a colour television now not in two years’ time.

The television we had was a large one, the biggest screen you could get at the time and it was decorative and not just a plan old box, when digital television came out my parents were pretty quick to snap one up, it was a high definition (HD) digital tv at that, even though there was like next to nothing shown in HD dad still wanted one. He has always been one to want the latest and the best.

My parents still have a HD television, be it now a flat screen tv, because that is all the rage now, I am surprised that dad doesn’t want a 3D television since they are the latest thing on the market, he must be getting old…………………….lol

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Good morning everyone, it is now Sunday morning and as I do most morning I went for a walk and when I walk I like to think, I tried walking and listening to music or an audio book. However I prefer to think and ponder stuff as I walk.

This morning I was thinking about walking when I was walking, about how when an overweight person starts walking they have to start slowly, I know when I started to go for a walk again I had to stop a couple of times for a rest now I can do the walk without stopping for a rest. Each few weeks I have increased the distance I have walked today I walked a little further not a lot mind you but a little and I am happy with that.

I know many people say you need to walk up and down hills but I am not at that level yet I could go down a hill but up again would be too hard at the moment, when I walk it is along flat ground but since starting I have doubled the distance I walk. I also feel that when it comes to stairs a good rule is stairs down, lift up, meaning take the stairs when going downstairs and the lift when going upstairs

I also thought about how easy it is to forget at times that you have to walk home again when you go for a walk, it is so easy to get lost in the walk and to walk further then you should because the walk home may end up feeling longer then the walk away from home because you are so tired due to walking so far. I have done this myself at times gone for a walk got lost in thought and ended up walking so far that the walk home took a lot out of me.

Since starting back walking in January I have managed to lose about 4-5 kilos not much I know but it is a start and I am walking 5-6 days a week.

I so get this as the grandmother of 2 little boys I know how robust they can be, climbing on things and using everything they can as a weapon.  I remember being asked once what colour blood a dog has, and telling the child take my word for it you don’t need to cut the dog to see only to be told they would not cut the dog only stick a pin it it to see what colour the blood was. I didn’t allow that either.  However that was not said to me by a grandson but my youngest daughter, Jessica.

Boys love to take things apart to see how they work and then put them back together again, I know little Leo loves to examine things and will often want to take things apart to see how they go together and how they work.

Blain loves to use anything he can find as a gun or as a sword, and Daemon has started using his  mother’s lighter as a gun and she is forever taking it off him.

You don’t see little girls using different things as dolls or teddy bears, well none of my girls or granddaughters have done that. 

How often do you watch children’s television programs, me well I do most days of the week comes with have a 2 year old in the house. Anyway have to say I have children’s shows are on in this house for most of the day but come around 5-5.30pm it becomes my time to watch stuff and I change the channel often to Daemon’s annoyance.

Speaking of Daemon this little boy can sure make a mess, this is him eating tea tonight and this mess is the type of mess he makes most nights unless we are sitting at the dinner table but some nights we don’t bother and he will eat in his high chair and this is what happens when he does.

Of course straight after tea, he has to have a bath to clean him up then around an hour or so after his bath he will go and watch a movie with mummy in their room then it is bed time for Daemon.

This is my nanna, she will be 93 in May but that is not the point of this post, today mum and I went over to the nursing home to see her, we also had Liarna with us and we really need to plan to go over on a Saturday and take Temika with us as Temika as she has been saying that she misses seeing great nanna but that is also not the point of today’s post.

When we arrived this morning Pearla was there visiting nanna and she said she was there because the nursing home had rung on Sunday to say that nanna had, had a fall and she wanted to go over and make sure she was ok. Now nan is bedridden and in fact she doesn’t move even in bed the nurses have to move her so how the hell did she have a fall. They said she fell out of bed and she is supposed to have bed rails on each side of the bed and apparently she only had the bed rail up on one side of the bed and they thing she got tangled in the bedding and this caused her to fall. However I find that hard to get my head around as she doesn’t move I have never seen her move, well not in the last 3 years, while we were there the doctor came and checked on her and he said she was lucky she doesn’t have any bruises and only a few minor scratches.

Both mum and I were glad that we were there when the doctor came to check on her but mum also was annoyed that the nursing home rang Uncle Frank and not her, if we hadn’t been there today and saw Pearla would anyone had told mum about nan falling out of bed.

We went over to the nursing home early today as mum had to drive Kayla to school and when we got there nan was still in bed she hadn’t been showered yet and looked very sleepy but there are days when she is like that, sleeping and not really with it. Even though it is upsetting at times when we see her we still like to go each we to check in and see for ourselves what she is like.

I have been nominated for this award by Pat over at http://plaintalkandordinarywisdom.com/ and I am honoured to accept it and want to say a big thank you to Pat for this.

Here are the rules for the Seven Awards

1. Display the logo’s on your blog
   
2. Link back to the person who nominated you
   
3. State 7 things about yourself
   
4. Nominate others for the award
   
5. Notify those you have nominated
   

Ok number 1 done, number 2 done also that was easy but I now I have to tell you 7 things about myself ok Jo-Anne think what can you tell people there must be 7 things they don’t know yet.

1. I can’t touch my toes
   
2. I have some false teeth
   
3. I have a lot of photos on my walls
   
4. My feet sweat a lot
   
5. I have oily hair
   
6. I don’t think I am beautiful, or ugly just kind of average looking
   
7. I consider 51 to be middle aged
   

I am not going to nominate anyone if you want to take part feel free to do so if not then that it fine too.

Good morning world, the day started out ok, got up went for a walk came home got Leo’s lunch packed and then got him ready for school and then I had to drive him to school. While I was waiting for the bell to ring at the school I noticed a message from my precious daughter asking if I was awake, she had sent it while I was out walking and didn’t notice until then anyway I replied she wanted to tell me something that was on her mind so I said I would ring her when she got home which I did.

She wanted to tell me she didn’t need me anymore, she said that I am always so busy with helping her sister and driving Leo to and from school and when I am at home I am busy on the computer blogging and whatever. This hurt my feelings I didn’t know what to say so all I said was that it was kind of good as that meant she was becoming more self-sufficient but It did hurt my feelings, I don’t know why I am surprised or hurt she has always been the daughter who acted like she didn’t need me, even when she was a very young girl.

I have always felt that nothing I have done was good enough for her not matter how much attention I tried to give her it wasn’t enough but you know what this is not going to change anything I am still going to be there whenever I can, I will still watch my grandchild whenever I can. Why because I am mum and it is my job to be there for my daughters as much as possible.

Yes I like that they are becoming more self-sufficient and more grown up, but I also like to feel needed but at the same time I have a life that is not always about them like most mothers I try to do it all and like most mothers I fail at times.

I know my girls love me just like I love them, I have a different relationship with each daughter and they are all special and unique and I try to treat them each the same and differently at the same time no it isn’t always easy but I do try because I love them all so much.

I consider my niece Kelli one of my girls and in fact we are both very much alike so she is like a daughter.