More than just a bag lady

I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself. I managed to successfully navigate a train, a tube and another train journey with 2 kids, a super heavy weight suitcase and a couple of bags all by myself. Yes. You read that right.   All   by myself. If truth be told I was feeling slightly nervous yesterday afternoon so much so that I couldn't eat my dinner (which is very unusual for me). I'm not sure whether it was the journey or just the fact I would be back in my old home town that was making me feel a bit jittery.  I've been to London on the train on my own before and I'm certainly not one of those women that gets frightened travelling alone but doing it with the kids is a different story. For starters I'm outnumbered. There's 2 of them and only 1 of me. And I've got to look after a suitcase. A brand new suitcase might I add. Big Girl persuaded me to buy it as it was one with 4 wheels that you can push rather than pull and she said that she would help with th...

Last Sunday Hubby and I took the kids to see Inside Out at the cinema.  Big Fella had been desperate to see it all summer holidays but we just never got round to it so he was really excited. As a general rule the kids don't like the cinema so we never really go. But I love do. I love it. So when I get to go, even if it is to see a kids film, I get very excited.  I didn't know much about the film other than it was about a little girl, the emotions inside her head and that it was supposed to be very good. Which it was. But the reason it's made me write a blog post is because of how apt it was to the situation that our family is finding itself in.  For those of you who haven't seen it (don't worry I won't spoil it for you) the little girls parents move house and state because of her Dad's job. CHECK. The little girl leaves behind all of the friends she has had since being tiny including her best friend. CHECK. She has to start a new school. CHECK. She doesn...

I've realised it's been well over a month since my last blog post. In terms of this blog I appear to have lost September completely! It's not as if nothing has happened in the last 6 weeks. Totally the opposite in fact!! There has been so much that I feel as though I haven't had a minute to stop and take a breath. If I haven't been madly rushing around then I've been asleep (or in pain) and just had no time to get anything written down about what's happening. Actually, that's a little bit of a lie. I have started two blog posts (both times in hospital but more details of that to come) but not had the energy, either physically, mentally or emotionally to finish them off. So I'm gonna try to give a whistle stop tour of life in my crazy world over the last month or so.  Hospital I've had 3 admissions in the last 5 weeks. The first two were because my Hickman line 'fractured' which is a medical term for split. It's a big deal because the ...