It has been a busy three months in our household. Christmas came and went with a great deal of screaming, squealing and throwing of wrapping paper. And that was just me and Lee.... The kids enjoyed it too!
The new year rushed in where angels fear to tread (look at me mixing up my similies with nary a care! Or should that be metaphor? Maybe a mixed one?) New Years day was my beloved husband's 40th Birthday!!! We celebrated with a family dinner and a cake that looked like Boba Fett's helmet (and if I do say so myself, I didn't do too bad a job on it!)
Well anyway, we got into January and headed through it far to fast for my liking, though with not much snow, which in Calgary in winter is a blessing (though a curse for the farmers when spring and summer roll around). Bizarely its been snowing up a storm in the UK and the rest of Europe with temperatures plummeting, while I have been waltzing around in a shirt and light jacket. Mother Nature is having a bit of a lark this year I think.
February brought Valentine's day, hearts wherever you looked, which was a bit of an omen as it turned out as Lee got taken into hospital from work one day with a suspected Heart Attack. Yes, my only recently turned 40 valentine was given aspirin, nitro-spray and a referral to a cardiologist. Happy Valentines!!
He had the cardiologist appointment yesterday. Thankfully (after 2 weeks of near endless panicking and little sleep on my part - oh how much better he coped than me) he was given the all clear. Heart good, Blood pressure good, cholesterol and blood sugar amazingly good. But - told to stop smoking (again) and lose weight. Apparently the tablets he takes for stress may be acting less effectively, hence allowing him to feel like he is having a heart attack when he is under stress.
Which brings us to the most recent thing. Our eldest daughter, the fabulous tornado in a tutu, Freyja is having more and more issues with behaviour and anger, so I finally admitted that we were not coping so well by ourselves and we needed help - especially in light of Lee's stress issues. I duly made an appointment with our family doctor to explain my concerns, her anger, her nightmares, her ADHD like tendencies and he refered us to the relevant department who in turn referred us to the Paediatric Behavioural Development Clininc yesterday telling us it would be a 10 week or so wait to hear. Today I got a call from them and appointment on Monday (today is Thursday). They actually wanted to give us an appointment tomorrow but our work couldn't do such short notice! I don't know whether to be pleased or worried - do they think its so bad they need to rush her in?
So anyway, to keep my mind clear on that score, I have started another blog http://the-defiant-ones.blogspot.com/ to remind us where our journey began and find out where it takes us, and for Freyja to hopefully look back on it with pride in the future at what she overcame, and for us as parents to perhaps look back, make a sigh of relief and take pride in what we survived....
And last, but hopefully not least, in my ongoing effort to get fitter, lose weight and support Lee in his efforts to do so too, I have joined a gym and will be starting a blog on that too to track my progress and inspire me to keep going. Happy March 1st - hopefully the beginning of good things to come - even if it is a bit overwhelming at the moment!
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