I have a cold

I am sick with a cold. I have been fighting it for about a week and I have finally succumbed.

Kt is at school today and uni is back at work.

I have to get rid of it asap as I do not want to be going into labour and birth sick.

I am trying to rest and take it easy but there are also things I want to still get done.

I spent about 30 minutes in the garden weeding this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find that it only took that long to weed the rest of the garden outside the front fence. I had allowed myself up to 3 hours (which would equate to 1 hour a day) to complete this task.

I have the main garden still to do and also the side garden just inside the front fence ... but these will definitely take a lot longer.

I did some more washing and I am trying to keep on top of washing and ironing so there is not a big pile for me to come home to.

I washed the sheets and made the bed.

Finally managed to get some video of the baby moving in my belly.

I am going to keep the camera battery charged and ready to go for the birth and beyond.

I have stacks of clothes and things ready to put into my hospital bag but will have to condense the items I take so they will fit.

I plan to fill the bag with about 2 days worth of stuff and then have 2 more days worth of stuff sitting in a laundry basket in the baby's room ready to be brought to me by uni if I need it.

I have packed a bag for kt so that if she needs to sleepover at grandma pats house she has a days worth of stuff ... if there is room I may add another day's worth of stuff just to be on the safe side.

I want to give the house a vacuum too but don't really feel up to it today.

a week spent at home

Kt has been sick this week and I have kept her home from school.

I feel like I am running out of time.

Uni is almost finished his holidays. Kt has barely spent any time at school the last few weeks, there are doctors appointments every week and I am not getting enough me time.

I really need to stock up on me time because it will be in short supply in the coming months.

I think I may also be battling whatever kt has.

She only had a runny nose for a few days and now has this horrible dry annoying cough.

There is nothing that gets to me more than that cough.

She talks through it and I just want to say "shush" stop talking .... well actually I have said that to her many times so far ... I just wish she would listen.

She is cheerful enough and energetic enough to be at school, but having just given her the swine flue vaccination yesterday I don't really want to take any chances.

Her reaction to this one has not been anywhere near as severe as to the combined flu/swine flu one she got last time.

More info on this vaccination fiasco in preg blog.

I am hoping she will be ok to go to school tomorrow ... I don't think she talks as much there as she does at home so maybe she won't cough as much either.

Next week is a 4 day week because of the Anzac day public holiday and we will be catching up with pat, jeff and jill for lunch and finding out all about their holiday.

early start

Kt woke up at 5.15 am this morning not feeling very well.

She complained of having a headache all day at school on Friday. Then had a high temperature and a headache on Saturday.

She seemed to improve on Sunday after a good sleep and plenty of rest, but by the afternoon was looking a bit droopy.

Since she woke up so early and I was supposed to take my car to be serviced this morning, I took her to the doctors before hours hoping to be in and out quickly.

This kind of worked, except that you are stuck with whatever doctor is the on call doctor of that day.

Dr Day wasn't too bad, but am wondering whether I should have just waited until later to get an appointment with our favourite Dr Taylor.

Symptoms indicate a viral infection rather than a bacterial one so we are resting and drinking fluids.

Her temperature was 37.7 and she felt very hot all over.

Panadol seems to be helping her feel better.

Once we got home I didn't want to worry about the car service ... I was tired and not really wanting to be without a car in case she took a turn for the worse.

I have rescheduled the service for tomorrow.

Think I will go to bed early tonight.

We are back on afternoon shifts now so not the best time in the roster (for me anyway).

Am just about finished my sewing tasks though and have gathered all my sewing gear into one place (ooops that reminds me I better get the over locker in here too).

Once I have sorted through it and repackaged it I will put it away.