Bicycles, Doorbells, and Washing Machines

Posted on July 29, 2022 by worldenoughandtimeblog

So, after my week or two of running around after the kids feeling hot, tired and sweaty, things actually did get significantly worse.

On Sunday the washing machine died again, for the billionth time.
On Monday we woke up and discovered that we had been robbed.
On Tuesday the insurance company told me they wouldn’t pay out so I bawled and swore and cried at them in a very unsightly way.
On Wednesday I was so tired I thought I might die, but things cheered up and my bestie Betty came to visit which helped a lot.
On Thursday the washing machine company finally caved and conceeded I needed a full refund and a new machine.
On Friday my elderly neighbour rang my doorbell at 6am over and over again, waking us all up, as she couldn’t find her handbag and clearly had no idea what time it was.

In other words we are having a bit of a time of it!

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Hot, tired, busy, sweaty, exhausted….

Posted on July 18, 2022 by worldenoughandtimeblog

Well it’s been an intense few days!

The heat has left us all knackered and hot and sweaty and grumpy, struggling to sleep and overall pretty tired. I caught A’s cold so that’s not helping either.

We have been setting up letterbox contact for S, which is a managed process via social services where we can write a letter and send up to 4 photos, once a year, to her birth parents and siblings. We have no idea if they will write back or not yet… S was really keen to do this and excited to be able to make contact with her siblings again, but doing it also stirred up a lot of really big emotions for her, and it was quite an upsetting process. We ended up doing her letters on Sunday night, it was so hot that A wouldn’t go to sleep and S was really upset and missing her birth family and so it was a fairly tough night all round. No-one got much sleep and it was quite a tense night in the house!

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