Chaos in Flame World

The silence over the last few weeks has been down to a few things - both general busyness, and the laptop died!

I'm sharing the PC with Boy, and it ain't fun. I am sat in the wrong place in the room, everything looks weird. I want my laptop back :( Customs money should clear soon though, so then I can get a bright new shiny one, and the world will be at peace again.

Flamechick had her paed referral. It was a bit something n nothing tbh. He told me several times that she is not autistic - no sh*t. Never said she was! I said maybe mild Aspergers. He then said that they can't tell about AS until they are at least 6-7 and have a better grasp of language, and that he'll see her again in 6 months to see how she is getting on with change etc. I'm back at the "I dunno" stage. For now, we're getting on just fine. We verbalise what we are feeling, she does the same rather than grunting and squealing, we don't make any sudden changes if we can possibly help it, we try and talk everything through in advance/as it happens so she understands why things are happening. She may work slightly differently to other children, but her teacher understands her, we understand her, and right now, that is all that she needs.

Flameboy is still playing up at night. He has an extra layer on tonight - grasping at straws with "maybe he gets cold".

I spent the last 4 days working at the school - it was hectic, rushing Flameboy round to various different childcare. I ended up with a cold on the morning of day 2. But, even with illness, slightly upset child, and work, I still enjoyed the change from being mummy all day to being a grown up.

Now we're onto Easter holidays. I desperately need to lose some weight before the trip to Rigby and Peller - I have put on more than my levelled out weight (comfort eating has a lot to answer for!!), and want to be back to my "normal" weight before I go. Maybe I should steal Hatt's juicer...

The weeks ahead.... Ooooooooh we have planned: baking, mixing, painting, sticking, outings, rolling, hot tub, drinking, shopping, bra fitting, coffee... and possibly a little cbeebies! How many of those do you think I will actually get round to???