The Garden Shed

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Okay – its been a while.

The boy on wheels has now been formally diagnosed as autistic, and to be honest I’ve not dealt with it well. I’ve not taken care of myself – my diabetes is out of control and I feel like crap pretty much all the time. I plaster on a smile a smile when I’m out, and cry when I’m alone and instead of dealing with it I’ve eaten my feelings.

So on Wednesday I went on a school trip with the boy on wheels, which was fine but then I saw the photos on twitter. I have been featured in one, standing under a tree – the size of a garden shed! Now after wailing and moaning about not giving permission to have my image published, and what an unflattering angle it was yada yada, tonight mad dad finally had the balls to tell me that despite being a bit unflattering, it wasn’t an inaccurate representation of size! Yes, I am the size of a garden shed…

Fast forward 2 hours and I am sitting in a slimming world class simultaneously plotting to kill him, and admiring his bravery! It shocked me into action, and after feeling the crappest I have felt in a long while I now feel the most empowered I have felt in ages! I have spent so long sitting on rock bottom that there is no way but up.

My sister was diagnosed with gestational diabetes today, and I was giving her lots of great advice on what she should eat – advice I never follow. So today I promised her I would low carb like a saint until my nephew arrives – so for at least 7 weeks! My plan is to lose at least 10 pounds by the time he arrives, and a stone by my 39th birthday at the end of July! Then I have a year to get gorgeous by 40… Lets go!

Mad Mum

 

Blue Blue Christmas

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So it all went wrong…

Earlier in the year my nan passed away, leaving us in lieu of Mum being around a small amount of money. So I decided that after a few years of crappy lean Christmases I would go a bit mad this year and spoil the big and little boys a bit!

The week before Christmas I even managed to get hold of the ultimate Lego Millennium Falcon, which I had pretty much given up hope of obtaining, and decided that it was fates way of helping me have a brilliant Christmas. How wrong I was…

First hubs announced that he had 23 hours off for Christmas! Not best pleased would be an understatement. So I have just put together a lunchbox and ironed a shirt, while sitting here until he gets up at 1 am so that he can get some quality sleep.

Then the boy gets a rotten cold, which means he has been needy, grumpy and not really sleeping which has made doing those last minute crimbo jobs have felt like torture. And then last night, while I was trying to wrap the last of the pressies, he starts throwing up!

So today my living room looks like the Lego store, but my child is too sick to build or play, and this perfect extravagant Christmas has been an utter sham! Having bought Mad Dad 2 big lego sets, a PS4 game and a range of new running tops, he got me a bottle of JD and a straightening brush I ordered myself on black Friday – that he didn’t even wrap!!!!! Despite dropping several hints, and my sister sending him a link to the perfume set I’d like he independently bought me nothing. Fuming! That and I have spent the day dealing with sick, because he thinks it is digusting – that’s funny love because its on my top ten list of fun thing to do…

So next year I am going back to scrimping, and rationing presents because money certainly can’t buy a happy Christmas! But it can buy cake 😉

Hope you all had a lovely one, Mad Mum