Mrs Badcrumble's Diary

no, not a typo, I do mean Al's well!  Young master Blair was a wee trooper at the hospital last Friday.  I had prepped him to be ok with getting an anaesthetic injection and he was a bit nervous but coping admirably. Then we get there and they give him it as gas. Not good.  What would you do if someone held a mask on your face and pumped really stinky gas at you?  Precisely, you'd do everything you could to get away from it.  He puled the mask away, pulled the pipe out, he had his nails well and truly sunk into me, had 5 of us holding him down at one point and eventually went under.  I was a wreck!!!! 

But he had 4 teeth out, came home, lay quietly for a few hours and was soon back to normal, minus some teeth and looking ridicuously cute for it!

We had a fairly quiet weekend (well, apart from alister going to a fancy dress bouncy castle party!) then Monday came round all too soon.  We made Christmas cards at my craft class this week because I was feeling lazy.  Took a pile of card, paper, pens, glitter, tinsel etc and told them to let their artistic juices flow (i.e. i just couldnt be arsed thinking up anything in particular for them to do!) God knows what we will do this week...... Maybe tree decorations.  They enjoyed making modelling clay from flour and water before.

Then on Saturday my mum picked us up and we went to Dundee.  Met up with my Uncle Bill from the States and Auntie Elsie for a coffee then took Alister to Dobbie's to visit Santa.  Then today my mum and I went into town shopping and alister put his great gran's christmas decorations up for her.  He had a ball and I got a few hours peace.  Brought my gran's car back with us and the thermometer was reading -5 coming home. WAH!  Proper frosty.

Going to go to Edinburgh to do some Christmas shopping tomorrow but am pretty organised this year and dont have much left to buy.  All good!  Meant to be meeting my mate Bobby for lunch which will be nice. 

Right, I am off to pretend to be a pensioner and drink sherry and read Reader's Digest.  It's not right I tell ya.... I'm only 34!!!!

Night all. High fives and big hugs.

Jill xxxxx

So after alister had his teeth x-rayed last week I got a call on Tuesday to say the hopital had a cancellation and could Alister go in on Friday to get his teeth removed. That will be tomorrow then.  Flip.

I am soooooo scared about him going under a general anaesthetic.  And it doesnt matter how many things i read saying it will be fine blah blah blah, i am terrified.  Alister is handling it well.  He just knows he will go to sleep for a bit, have less teeth when he wakes up and be alowed to eat tomato soup and chocolate ice cream all day whilst watching his new Kung Fu Panda dvd.  He's actually quite excited, i've done a hell of a job on him!!

Am going to go and have a small glass of wine and try to relax a bit.  Wish it was this time tomorrow and it was all over with...

Night all.
Hugs
Jill
xxxxx

To the makers of Medised - a million thank yous!!!!!  For those not in the know, Medised is a kids medicine that is supposed to dry up snotty noses etc and 'aids restful sleep'.  I think I maybe used it once to dry up his snuffles but to be honest I, and many parents of my acquaintance, use it to drug their kids and get a bit of peace at night!  Go on, admit it, you've done it too!!!

Alister had gone for about 4 or 5 nights not falling asleep til about 10pm.  He was tired, cranky, downright unpleasant and yet still not sleeping.  So out came the medised.   Last night at 6.30pm he was lying on the sofa watching the tellybox with a fleecy blanket on him.  At 6.40pm i told him to clean his teeth and he kicked off so i just ignored him.  At 6.45pm he was absolutely flat out on the sofa snoring!  Took him to bed and he woke up at 8am.  He was still a little shit this morning and by tonight was resembling Kevin the Teenager but at least he got a decent nights sleep.  And I didnt have to listen to him singing and acting out little scenes with his soft toys all flaming night.

Tonight he has so far had all his soft toys confiscated but seems to have fallen asleep mid-protest. Sigh.....

We are up early tomorrow to go to the hospital to get his teeth x-rayed.  Should be interesting.

Work was funny today.  This morning I spent an hour or so tracking down some tea/coffee pump dispensers and arranging delivery. Then another hour trying out stuff for my craft class, ended up making a sparkly christmas candle out of a toilet roll tube - looked really cool!  Then had to go and find some gym mats cos I am hosting a personal safety and self defence course on saturday. Alister off school tomorrow for an in service day so he will come to work with me after the hospital.  Will go armed with lots of dvds for him to watch!

right am off to chill for a bit before bed.

Big luv Jill xxxxx

Oooo look at me blogging twice in a week!

This week is the first week that Janet and I are doing our proper jobshare days.  Which means I am only working Wed-Fri.  Lovely!!!  Made some more home made vodka today.  Following the sucessful production of Kola Kube flavour I tried Butterscotch and Rosy Apple flavour today.  The Butterscotch one looks a bit murky but smells wicked!!

Tesco man came today, went for a nose round Asda and got a few wee stocking filler sweets for Christmas.  I am soooo excited about Christmas.  Not because i know alister will LOVE everything I have for him.  Not because we are going to the panto in Dunfermline on Christmas Eve (front row, middle, of course!).  Not because my muma nd gran are coming to us this year.  Not because Alister will have his first Christmas at his own home.  Not because of the lovely decorations and twinling lights.

No, I am excited because if Christmas is at my gaff then the stockings are MY job this year!  I love opening my stocking usually but this year I can't wait to be the one up at midnight on Christmas Eve arranging stuff in my own living room and filling stockings for Alister, my mum and my gran (and me!).  I have already got a few wee toys for alister's plus some nice sweets fo them all.  I want to get a couple of nice wee extra things for my mum and grans ones too. Don't know what yet, maybe a nice wee pair of earrings or some nice little Sanctuary travel size bottles.  Any ideas for this please fire them at me!!

So back to regular humdrum - Alister should have had swimming lesson tonight at 5.15pm but he didnt fall asleep until 10pm last night.  So i decided it was an early night for him.  Actually he was asleep before 7.30pm tonight so hoping he will feel better for it tomorrow.

We have the dentist tomorrow.  Alister was suposed to get a tooth pulled out after he had an abscess on it months ago but he completely freaked out so he has been referred to the Community Dental Clinic.  First appointment tomorrow is just to talk things over and try and put his mind at ease.  GULP!!!  And then tomorrow is Parents Evening at school.  DOUBLE GULP!!!

So I am now going to lounge on the sofa for a bit watching rot on tv.  Might even have a sofa snooze.  Ahhhhhh....... peace, perfect peace.....

Love ya! Jill xxxxx

5 months!!!??? 5 months since I last wrote here??!!!!  What could I have done in 5 months??....

I could have travelled the world
I could have saved the world enough times to have material for approx 150 new series of 24
I couls have phoned Sky customer services and still been on hold
I could have lost about 2 and a half stone (must try harder)
I could have........

I didnt' travel the world
I didn't save it either
I have been on hold to Sky for what seems like 5 months
I have lost about half a stone in the past 3 weeks
I did run out of hours in the day.  What with studying, working, mummying, housekeeping, sunday schooling and craft classing I just haven't had time to be here too.

I had my exam for my literature course in October, results due December 12.  My gran blair died and I miss her. She was 95 and in a lot of discomfort by the end.  I'm so thankful that I was able to spend her last few hours with her.

Alister started school - not without its ups and downs.  Parents night next week....gulp!!!
I'm still working at Dunfermline High.
I have finally updated by Bebo and Facebok pages so feel free to add me.

I'm so glad i got 10 mins to come on here today! My mum is coming round in a bit to go out for a coffee so its just a quickie to get me back into my blog!  Hope you are all well and healthy and happy and having a ball!

Big Luv!!!
Jill
xxxxx