Wow where has this year gone?! i know i know everyone always says it and sure i said it at the last end of year blog in 2015. But last blog i wrote was in September!
Little man has settled very well into school and has now started reading! though not as fast as what his sister did but still very impressed with his progress so far! me being the over anxious person I seem to be (or everyone else thinks i am) was worried he could be like me and be dyslexic. Obviously there is lots of time yet for this to happen or come apparent but for now I am calm, he is writing well considering his very hypermobile fingers and we are just monitoring it all. He is not as tired as i thought he would be, to be honest.. he is still up at the crack of dawn, he goes to bed at the same sort of time. He is playing rugby tots regularly at school, a follow on from when he did free sessions in pre school. He has made friends and is generally doing well!
Madam, well her headaches which she was suffering with at the start of term have really settled down now, which i am super glad about, though we still have flares it does seem to be noise related but her teacher came up with a solution that madam and another child can say a code word and the rest of the class will quiet down! Still suffering of course with her joints and ibs issues, though we seem to have stumbled across that she suffers with maize/ corn products! which cause cramping, where as wheat causes bloating. so no more sweetcorn for her! which is a bug bare as its cheap and easy to put in alot of meals. But not much we can do there its just madam and her issues.
Currently having more problems with her back which she claims feels like jelly but i am wondering if she is growing.. and if her back could be hypermobile. Like the rest of her. GP has written back to the physio.. but I can't see much happening there! physio only wanted us to see her again when madam hit puberty or her next big growth spurt! would like to note though, it is not stopping her in regards to her school work! We were told at parents evening that she is being placed on the gifted and talented register for her reading and more then likely her maths! Maths we had to have serious words with her teacher with as madam had a meltdown over being bored at school! So now they let her do the work and more thankfully! and we have alot of books at home. ( wish i knew where she got it from me and her dad are hardly good at maths!) But we are so proud and I am so glad that her issues don't stop her from achieving in school. It doesn't mean much being on the register just that they will make sure she has what she needs to be challenged. Reading they are setting up a specific reading group for children like her. Maths i'm not so sure but sure it will be more on the lines what they are doing already!
As a family we had another quick pop over to France!! for hubbies birthday, after last years, if we all remember i had that short stay in hospital with my appendix! ... (whoops) and couldn't do anything for his birthday. so we made up for it this year! it was great, only a day trip into Calais! shopping and just walking around town exploring. It made a lovely change! and hope to do it again! Euro shuttle was great and def an option for our next visit, which we will probably do for our holiday again in 2017!
Finally had it noted that I am hypermobile, though no one has done official testing, i went to the drs over pain in my hands, esp as my left hand in particular, the thumb hyper extends and it makes it very difficult to do the usual every day things, like chopping veg! holding a book! spoke to gp who when i fisrt said just promptly showed me that her thumbs hyper extend ( whoopie for her! ) told me at my age !!! ( wth i'm 30!!) there isn't anything they can do! .. hrrm sure there is i said i'm hurting its difficult to do things, so she played around with my hand, said my thumb joint is rather loose, well duh its hypermobile, and promptly did a test that showed i have an issue with tendons in my wrist.. well that was a new one!! should get better but currently it feels in a steady decline, pain more days i do have supports but next step would be a steroid injection, though aslong as it worked better on me then it did on madam's knee. Also i have reynaulds .. nothing serious there just my hands are affected by the cold, feet too, but as far as i've seen they don't go blue unlike my fingers and don't struggle keeping heat! These are things I can deal with however!
Finally started seeing someone over my depression, very.. harrowing to see it written down that i have moderatly severe depression and mild anxiety.. though with everything that goes on I am not surprised, i do try and not let everything take over, but when accidently smashing plates ( a good chunk of them too) i thought it was the end of the world, it is a sign that .. yes i'm not in a good place. I shoulder a lot of things and plod on, its almost like our family motto "Just Plod on" .. really need to make that into a plaque or something!
And so we plod on into 2017! what will it bring? who knows possibly another family trip to France, and everything else is a mystery. I hope for health and happiness. People to listen, support and understand. We are grateful to have friends that listen and care and we step into another year, stronger, i think so. We are determined stubborn souls in this house and I don't think that is going to change any time soon.
All my love for the holidays and the new year, lets see what 2017 throws at us!
