About time....

It's been another month and a half - oops!

My world is pretty upside down at the moment. Without going into too much detail on the good old WWW it's suffice to say that things are pretty sh*tty :( My beautiful mum has been diagnosed with cancer just a few weeks after christmas. In a cruel twist of fate, this is not the only cancer diagnosis we are coming to terms with at the moment. Dan's Mum also received the bad news that she has cancer just a week or so before christmas.

Since the new year has begun, we seem to have had one blow after another. I am busy trying to sort the big boys out as we struggle to figure out what is going on with Lachlan. He has had me worried for at least a year now but his teacher confirmed my worries and let me know that he is way behind his peers at school and seems to have some learning/concentration issues - who knows what's going on there?? We have a Paed. appointment for him in June to watch this space

We have also been following up on something that was picked up for Cody last school year - he has a moderate hearing loss in his right ear and after several different appointments to specialists and audiologists today I took him to have a hearing aid fitted. Now the poor little boy is complaining that everything is loud... he'll just have to give it a chance to get used to it and see if it helps him at all.

Since we found out about our mums I have had a pretty hard time myself. It's hard for me to admit but I have really fallen in a bit of a heap and have arranged to get some in home child care for the little ones while I wade my way through my issues. We've had the carer here for two weeks now (for three days a week) and I qualify for 13 weeks fully paid for by centrelink (so 11 to go!) In a way it's good to have the help and it frees me up to look after myself a little more, but on the other hand I am finding it a bit difficult as I can't hide behind the craziness of everyday business and it leaves me time to be in my own head, which I'm not liking too much at the moment :(

Anyhow... it's all a bit miserable at the moment so I won't bore you all with any more of my sob story... hopefully I can come back soon with a bit more cheery news!

Marns
xx