Shopping Day :-)

I have been feeling a bit down (combination of fed up with DCSF delays and recovering from Little Prince's behaviour at Christmas and being woken up at 3am to comfort Little Prince after a bad dream) so when my friend Post Lady called yesterday morning and said did I want to go shopping in five minutes I leapt at the chance! It was much better than veg-ing out on the sofa watching cr*ppy daytime tv lol. We went to a local outlet shopping centre and I looked for a new handbag, I got my current one as a Christmas present in 2007 and its looking a bit tired, and I'm bored with it lol. I saw a few I liked as we mooched round the shops, but nothing that screamed "Buy me, buy me" so I kept looking. We had lunch at a pub next to the shops and were both very restrained in our food choices and didn't get dessert - perhaps I will have lost weight at Weight Watchers tonight!! We wandered slowly back towards the car and in the first shop we'd been in I found THE BAG :-) It has lots of seperate pockets, is really soft leather and was perfect :-) AND it was in the sale too :-) After that it was still a bit early to set off back to pick the children up from school, so we sat in a coffee shop chatting for ages. She listened while I offloaded all my worries and fears about Little Princes's behaviour, and didn't once say "All little boys are like that" because she knows him and realises he does have issues. She was calm and sympathetic and kept telling me what a good job I am doing. I couldn't believe how much better this made me feel!! Most people tell me that "All little boys are like that" probably to make me feel better, but it doesn't!! If all little boys are like that, why am I finding it so much harder to cope than other mothers of little boys?!

This morning (after a full nights sleep) I feel so much better and brighter :-) Isn't it amazing what a new handbag and offloading your worries to a sympathetic friend can do :-) I've already got so much done this morning and its not even 11am!!

I'm even feeling positive about having had the first (of MANY!!) injections ready for travelling to Ethiopia!! I have three more appointments over the next couple of months and then one booster in 12 months time and I'm done!! I warned the nurse when I arrived at the clinic how much I hate injections and she was very kind and gentle and took very good care of me :-) Afterwards it did take her and the receptionist a LONG time to sort out the appointments for me, Mr Messy and Little Prince to have all our injections - its so complicated lol. When I got back I reassured Little Prince that it wasn't as bad as when he had his BCG and he is feeling a little better about going. Although he was asking if he HAD to go to Ethiopia, when I said yes he did he said I had to find out what he could do when he was there!! I've told him to talk to his friend with the Ethiopian Mum, as they have just been to visit family in Ethiopia!!

Now off to get some more jobs done, including booking Little Prince's birthday party. I can't believe my little man is almost SIX!!! Wow where did the time go?!?!