"The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart."

I feel like the walking dead today, I'm showing all the signs of flu mixed with severe hay fever and to top it off because of it I only got 3 hours sleep last night which is pretty grim. I like to think that the boys come first and I go above and beyond to make them as happy as I can but despite this, on these rare occasions that I am ill I feel so guilty.

I want to be play fighting and running about but I just don't have it in me today, I just want to sit on my bum and comfort eat. For once I am actually counting down the minutes until bedtime, (that's hoping that I don't end up on the sofa again tonight).

I honestly didn't even feel like I had it in me to write this post. But as I sat in the supermarket car park (because I feel to rough to go in) I thought 'I haven't written one of my waiting in the car posts for a while' and this lazy half hour with my feet up on the dash seemed like the perfect time to take advantage of that.

I will do my best to perk up for the boys and if I do manage to muster up some energy from somewhere I hope they are fully prepared for our wrestle to actually be me lay flat on the floor (like one of those bear rugs in a cabin) while the boys use me as a climbing frame.

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I wrote the above post yesterday when i was feeling particularly sorry for myself, today i am still feeling awful but ive not really had 5 minutes to think about how i am feeling as Opeie has high temperatures and Seth has been to the Dr's today and he has Tonsillitis again and has been very ill (poor little things). 

Its amazing how things change, your children take president and anything you have going on yourself is pushed to the side, it makes you realise what is important. Its also a kick up that bum, (sitting down comfort eating) to get on with things and stop moping around.

Being a dad is AMAZING!!!

 

"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

Although I'm still writing my holiday posts (and there is still lots to come), sadly we are back home in Shropshire where the weather is pretty bleak. Yesterday Mrs M went back to work and understandably she wasn't very happy about it. It's times like this that I feel so guilty that I am the stay at home parent. As she got out of the car and gave us both a smooch I could see she was feeling quite sad so when we got home we put on our scruffy clothes and got out the paint to make mommy a card to cheer her up after work.

First Opeie painted a piece of paper Orange...

You'll have to excuse the stain on the wall from one of Seth's experiments, painting will commence this weekend!

And then we drew around Opeie's hand. It's always nice to add a personal touch to your child's craft and what parent doesn't like to look back on their child's mini handprints...

We carefully cut out the hand print and used it as a stencil on some yellow felt to cut out two hand prints.

Back to the cutting and we carefully cut out the hand prints along with two wotsit like shapes (any idea what we're making yet?).

A little more cutting (two white paper circles and two blue slightly smaller circles) and then it's time for sticking. A touch of colouring in with black pen and two mini orange pom-poms and our creation was complete.

Meeting the Lorax on holiday at Islands of adventure was one of Mrs M's favourite things so what better way to cheer her up after a gloomy day at work. Plus it was a quick craft session that kept Opeie occupied for an hour on this gloomy day in the house trying to keep warm.