Well, I’m admit, this is not a first I was looking forward to. But, I do think I’m lucky it’s taken this long! This last week we experienced our first bout of a very nasty gastro bug.. together! Her ladyship started it first, last Wednesday, then I started overnight on Thursday. It included a nice trip.to the children’s hospital for some dehydration and my washing machine has definitely been put through its paces! I also hate to think what it has done to the electricity bill as we have had the radiators and heated airer on battling to make sure we have clean babygros and pyjamas!! Oh and the bedding! 🙈

To say I am exhausted, would be an understatement. But we are doing much better. We had to postpone our Christmas outing yesterday and it will now be a new year’s outing but we definitely wouldn’t have made it!

I did have a moment over the last few days when I thought that extra person would be helpful but we had lots of snuggles, watched Christmas movies and made it through, just the two of us!

3.2.24

I started writing this blog post back in December! And as you can probably tell there was quite a bit going on so I have only just noticed I never actually pressed publish! We got through that joyous gastro bug just to pick up a flu bug for Christmas!

And now? Well, we have spent the morning in the children’s hospital following a nice little ambulance trip! My poor girl has a virus and was quite poorly overnight I phoned NHS111 in the hope of getting a GP appointment after a night of very high temperatures but was sent an ambulance instead. They then decided she needed to go in and see the doctors.

After a few hours (and a bigger dose of medicine) temperature came down and she was much more settled so we came home. We’re now lying in bed where she has been asleep for a couple of hours. It’s so hard seeing your little one even more vulnerable than they normally are. I’m just going to make sure she has lots of cuddles, until she’s better and wants to start playing and causing chaos again!

It’s not all been illness though. We had a lovely Christmas (despite my flu). Lily met Father Christmas for the first time although she was far more interested in checking out his living room and fireplace that talking to the man himself! Then, we spent New Year’s Day at Longleat. We have been before but this was the first time Lily really appreciated the animals and even became a bit of a pro at a wolf impression!

Now we just need this cold weather to go along with the bugs and we can get on with enjoying 2024!

Stay safe and ciao for now!