It Begins!

I spent the weekend veering between madly tidying and just being mad (crazy mad not grumpy mad)!! Because our Social Worker visited today to start redoing our homestudy, in preparation for changing countries. Her visit was scheduled for 3pm, so LMS and Mr Messy were dreading spending the day with the Manic Tidying Lady!! However, Mr Messy deftly escaped tidying duties by managing to catch Little Prince's chucking up bug at 5am this morning. And being a man he wasn't quiet and delicate about it, he bellowed and groaned at the toilet for ages waking up the whole house!!! Little Prince decided enough was enough (his bedroom is right next door to the bathoom) and went downstairs to play on the Wii, and I don't blame him!! After getting back to sleep for not very long, I had to wake everyone else up, and it became obvious that Drama Teen was also not a well bunny and would have to stay home from school. So poor LMS was left all alone to cope with an increasingly panicked and manic mother!! Then after a whole day of that, she had to collect Little Prince from school and try to keep him happy and amused in the dining room with the manic kittens rampaging around!! They were swiftly confined to their travel box lol.

Mr Messy manfully coped with our Social Worker's questions, despite being laid on the sofa under a bright pink fleecy blanket!! We managed to plough through loads of updating, I was amazed how much we had actually done in the two years since our last report was written!! Mr Messy excused himself to get some paracetemols and disappeared!!! I found out later that he had felt dizzy and gone for a lie down, and fallen fast asleep!!! I know he was ill, but that didn't stop me being extremely cross with him GRRRR!!! I didn't tell him that though, as he felt bad enough as it was. Me and our Social Worker carried on as much as we could, until we came to the parts she would have to interview us together on and so we had to stop. She then rearranged her Saturday visit to the afternoon, which complicates everything the girls are doing, but I'm sure we'll work it all out.

However, later in the evening I got an email from our Social Worker saying she'd had a rethink and wanted the meeting to be in the morning as originally arranged. Her email said "so that we could try to complete the assessment" WOWOWOWOW COMPLETE THE ASSESSMENT I really really hope that we can get the bulk of the work done this quickly!! I KNOW our Local Authority are going to be extremely slow at processing the next parts of our update, and booking us into Panel, so the quicker we can COMPLETE THE ASSESSMENT the better :-) I'm trying very hard to keep my feet on the ground and not get too excited, but its way to late for that!!! I'm already thinking we could possibly be at Panel in September!!!! Although I keep telling myself that anytime before Christmas would be fantastic, given our Local Authority's lack of speed!!!