on a committee!!!!!!!!!

hey you know you have made it in the country when you get asked to join a committee! and I am now the secretary of the local mother and toddler group! really it all boils down to getting together and drinking lots of wine and scoff crisps and nuts round at someone's house! so it was that I attended my first committee meeting last week after rushing back from a meeting in London.

Last week was also half term for this area so no playgroups or classes to go to - Nelly still managed Nursery on Monday and then also went to two different Soft Play places on Wednesday and Thursday! She had a great time but Friday she hit a low coming down with a really high temperature, we manged to get it down with the usual drug combo. Having been exposed to a friends little girl two weeks ago who has since had the chicken pox I have been sitting watching and dreaming of her little body covered with spots!! We also toyed with the idea that it could be ear ache as she kept pulling at her ears and we did the usual bad thing of checking out all the symptoms on the web and diagnosing the problem ourselves!

Obviously all really stressful as we are flying off to Italy on Wednesday and the last thing we want is a sick one on a plane! She woke on Saturday and was much brighter, came out to the local farmers market with me but when we got home she managed to bite her tongue quite badly! So a combination of post fever blues and a stinging tongue has meant a weekend of miserable nights and Nelly trying to eat but spitting out most of the food due to the pain! One good thing is that she seems to have completely given up the dummy ! as this also pained her !

This morning she woke in a better mood - managed to eat a digestive biscuit with butter and loads of raisins, before I took her off to the doctors for them to look at her ears and she really was a changed child - running around the surgery playing with toys - they had a good look at the ears and nothing worng ...I dropped her at nursery this morning and all seemed OK but they just called to say she is not herself so I am off to pick her up ! ...