Purple Dragon

Conversation with smallest child today

SC : I don't want to go to playgroup today.
Me : OK
SC : I hate playgroup
Me : OK
SC : Do I have to go to playgroup today?
Me : No
SC : Later today?
Me : No
SC : I don't want to go to playgroup later
Me : OK
SC : Am I going to playgroup later?
Me : No
SC : I WANT TO GO TO PLAYGROUP (scream, wail, cry)

Oh, deary me. I think that every single thing in my daughter's diet (that she likes) contains wheat. It is depressing me, so goodness knows how she is going to feel once this diet is established.

I have cleared out a cupboard for her food. I need to retrieve the old toaster from the garage so she has her own one, and I have a spare tupperware for her bread and so on, so that our food doesn't contaminate hers. I need to empty our deep dryer because I have been cooking shop bought chips in it, and I found out today they have wheat in them. Wheat in chips. Honest. So that will need emptied, cleaned and refilled. I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't only just done it.

She's been invited to a party. I shall have to provide all her own food for that. I hope the other kids don't notice.

Thanks to the postal strike, we haven't received her starter pack from Coeliac UK so I am still a bit at a loss as to what she can have to eat. I went with a pal of mine to Tesco yesterday, but the gluten free bread in there would have made some fine brickwork. I shall have to make my own.

The other two have their blood tests on Tuesday.

I have had a very frustrating day.

Because I have been both really budy and feeling poorly lately, upstairs has been rather left. I have been picking up, but not really giving it my all, and it has become rather grubby. So, today was cleaning day. I have cleaned my upstairs top to bottom and it looks brilliant. The kids tidied their rooms to enable me to see the carpet and vacuum.

Unfortunately, I then came downstairs to the disaster that three stuck-in-the-house-coz-of-the-shite-weather kids make. Oh. My. God. I cannot believe it. I swear there is more mess down here now than there was across the whole frickin house before I started this morning.

Anyway, they were told that their Dad would take them out tomorrow if the house was nice, but they would spend the day in if they didn't, so guess how my kids are spending Saturday?

In other news, I have been having a shite time with my email. I have now changed both my address and my email service provider, and hopefully things will now stay on track. I am so tired of it keep messing up. If you have emailed me, there is a fairly good chance I never got it, so I am not cutting you dead - email me again on my new address.