A Hard Day's Night

The top photo was taken yesterday. I was planning to get out of the house while all of the workmen were here but Tobes started running a fever Monday night and stayed home from school yesterday. We had to stay in so we camped in the kitchen, the only room without someone working in it. It turned into a real campsite when Toby started feeling really rough and I made him a little bed with the dining chairs. Of course Rosie then wanted a bed too so I got some more pillows and blankets for her. They were quite happy to rest, watch Cbeebies and have me wait on them hand and foot. Funny that.

All of the work went quite well. The builders were very nice and tidy and even put their mugs in the sink at the end of the day. I made 14 cups of tea and 1 coffee yesterday. In the end I started using a wipe off marker to write how each person took their tea on the side of their mug to save time. It was chaos with the builders, the cleaner, the delivery people but it was all done by about four o'clock. One of the deliveries came in a big cardboard box and we turned it into a race car for Tobes using paper plates, plastic bowls, markers and lots of tape.

Tobes was feeling better by bedtime but woke up at midnight with a high fever. I got up to get him some medicine and Rosie woke up too. The bottom photo was taken at 1.00am this morning. Since we were all up we decided to go ahead and make a party of it with drinks, snacks and stories. Thankfully, we were all in bed with the lights out by two and slept through til seven this morning.

I took Toby to the doc and he has tonsilitis so no school for the rest of the week. That's fine except I was supposed to go to a meeting at St Maggie's tomorrow morning. This is one of those times when I wish we had family nearby. With J away there's no one to watch Toby so I had to call the school and say that I couldn't make it. They were very understanding and will send me all of the info and I've arranged to go in next week for a chat. Disappointing, but I'm sure it'll work out.

On the other hand, it's quite nice to be forced to wipe the diary clean. We went to the chemist in Sainsbury's today to get Toby's meds and it was strange to have nowhere else we needed to be. So often I'm checking the time, calculating how long we have until we need to be somewhere else. Very nice just to dawdle with no expectations. We ended up hitting Starbucks while Rosie napped. It's nice to be with just Tobes a little, especially when he's poorly and needs some extra TLC. Such a sweet boy.