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New Beginnings
My other thread was a bit long.
I treated myself to an iceburger ice cream yesterday on my way to pick Aisling up from school. I haven't had one in years. So I pulled away from the shop, opened up my ice cream and discovered there was only one chocolate biscuit. So it was an open sandwich. I kept my wrapper and sent off an old fashioned letter to let them know how upset I was. I'll let you know how I get on.
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Hey Magie, lovely new thread - but what's an iceburger ice cream?
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Iceburger ice cream? What’s that?
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Omg, I'm sorry. An iceberger is two chocolate biscuits sandwiching vanilla ice cream. The size I think is what we used to call a 5p slice from the ice cream van man. It's bigger than a 3p slice but not as big as a 7p slice. It's generous.
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Sounds yum! I'm so glad that you went to treat yourself! You really need to do things like that more often....
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I'm glad you explained what an iceburger ice cream was shame there was only one chocky bikky though, good on you Magie firing off an old fashioned letter to them hope you get a positive response.
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Aisling and I went for a very old-fashioned spin yesterday. We asked Gerry to come along, but he preferred to stay home. This is turning into "our" thing on a Sunday, and it's lovely to have time together without screens. We went to dad's home house , well the ruins of it and Aisling was surprised with how small it was. The painful thing is that because there are no pubs or restaurants open there is no where to go to the loo. Still it means that I get to see some of my family because I'd never make it home.
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What a lovely thing to do! It still makes me beam to hear of your amazing relationship with Aisling :)
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Honestly, I'm making it my business to do things like this with her. Every day our relationship shifts and changes, and I want to be able to change with it.
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It's so awesome. She's so lucky to have you!
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That's really nice some quality mother and daughter time.
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I had a call from a friend this morning. We met up for coffee and had a look around our local shops. It's such a novelty to have the open again. I stopped to say to each of the staff that it is lovely to see them again.
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I'm so glad you're getting out and doing things which are positive for you atm
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My hair appointment is on Friday. My hair really needs to be cut. I've got dreadful split ends and my colour has all grown out.
I got very fed up with Aislings attitude yesterday. I took myself off to my room to try and calm down. I had tears in my eyes and I didn't didn't want to upset her. I've tried to call my case worker all morning but I can't get through. Our health services computer system was hacked into last week and I don't know if that has anything to do with the phone lines.
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What's up with Ais attitude? Why did it upset you? Do you need a hug from me? I can reach all the way from here to you look ******HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGG********
Which case worker? Are you OK? What aren't you telling us?
Are you eating and drinking enough? Taking meds as prescribed? Have you created a stash? How are your moods?
Oh hunni, I wish I could be with you x
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She's stressed out because end of year exams start next week. She has been revising and she asked my help with maths yesterday. She tried to explain to me what she had to do, but I just didn't get it. She started to shout at me, and I just couldn't take it. So I went up to my room so she didn't see me cry.
I tried to get Bridget today. I really just needed to talk to her because the urge to s/h was very strong. I also wanted to ask about the zispen because I've very tired all the time.
Oh and thanks for the huge hug Suzi.
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She was out of order to shout at you. Did you tell her that it upset you?
Did you manage to speak to Bridget? Has the urge passed? Have you told G how you are feeling?
Also, just checking - are you building a stash of meds again?
You can always have hugs from me x
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I haven't mentioned it yet to Ais. I'll wait until the weekend and mention it then.
I didn't get through to Bridget. They just was no phones working at all. I might call out there tomorrow after physio, and see if I can talk to her.
Gerry knows how I'm feeling. And he is in charge of all of my meds. I haven't any stockpiled any.
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I'm really proud of you for knowing to get hold of Bridget and that you aren't stashing any meds.
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You definitely need to talk to Ais, but you’re right to wait til the weekend when there’ll be less school stuff to deal with. She needs to know that this attitude has consequences and you’re human too....
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I get that we're coming up to the end of the year, but I get up every day with a smile on my face for her. It's hard to believe that she will be on holiday from Friday week 28th.
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Hunni, you are allowed to tell her she was out of order. Maybe you could help her find other ways to deal with stress etc?
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When I was a teenager, one year I forgot Mother’s Day. It took 2 weeks for my mum to admit to me how hurt she was. That incident had 2 consequences. One, I realised that I should never take it for granted that I could behave how I wanted and mum could take it on the chin just because she’s a mum. Two, I really wished she’d told me earlier - I was devastated that she felt she couldn’t talk to me about it, but also I was devastated that she’d been carrying this hurt, that I’d caused, around for 2 weeks
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Hey, you think you could share that sorry with my kids Paula :(
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I completely agree Paula x
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I called the school yesterday because there is a timetable on their website for Monday 31st May. I wasn't sure if Ais was trying to pull a fast one by telling me she was finishing on the Fri. They called me back this morning, and they are definitely finishing on Friday. I just mentioned to them that Ais is getting very stressed about the end of year exams next week.
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Well done for talking to the school... Did they seem supportive?
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I love the school secretary. She always says I'm doing the right thing when I call to tell them about Aisling. Plus she tells me that Ais is a princess in the school. Every parent likes to hear things like that.
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I bet she's being totally honest too ;)
Have you spoken to her and told her that she upset you this week?
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We had another spin yesterday and I told her that I was upset about the way she shouted at me. She got upset because she hadn't realized. But we cleared the air and I really enjoyed our chat.
In other news, it took us over an hour to drive one and a half miles on the way home. The traffic was dreadful. There was some sort of modified car gathering in the city and I'm not joking when I say there were hundreds of cars. I understand that they want to meet up, but maybe in the future they could use an unused airfield or close off some roads to facilitate them.
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I'm so proud of you for talking to her about it. It's important that she knows that you are human and have feelings too.... I'm so glad that you did it together, calmly, cleared the air and had a really good chat!
Oh! Sorry about the traffic, but it gave you longer to chat and just "be" with each other? But yes, I know how annoying things like that can be. I live about 10 mins away from Brooklands Museum and they often have special car days etc....
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Well done! And I’m glad she understood what you had to say to her :)
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I was a part of the classic car scene for years and took part in organised events and none of them involved hanging out on McDonalds car parks and driving like morons or the streets. These cruise events should be illegal. My cousins used to attend them but I never got involved and don’t agree with them at all.
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We only live a mile or so from a 2nd WW airfield which has been turned into a stock car racing stadium, and drivers who want to 'pose' in their BMW's and are allowed to race the guts out of them. On a fine windless day you can hear them from our house!
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There used to be a huge one in Guildford, but it was shut down after some accidents happened...
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They have a Facebook page called Salthill Sunday's. They have photos up of lots of cars and just some of the traffic tailbacks they caused.
All of the phone systems are still down in our health service. I called to Toghermore yesterday to ask Bridget to call me. She called me this morning. I told her everything. Really everything. She will call me again next week.
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Has she made any suggestions?