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I am not superstitious by nature, but after today I have reason to wonder…

Nanny looked like she wasn’t going to arrive due to continued taxi violence in Cape Town (do those crazy people not realize the impact they have on people’s lives who WANT to work??), but luckily I had arranged to quickly go to the office and get some stuff and then come home to work.

I then get into my car as hubby loads Daniel into his and I’m greeted with a click.  To cut a long story short, I despatched Hubby, called Outsurance (they were GREAT!) and arranged for a tow.  I then realize that it is probably the battery, so head off to the nearest Battery place after a jump start by the Towing Guy.

Get there and the battery that the book says is wrong, I have to buy a more expensive one.  I then have to go and draw money as they wanted to charge me a 5% handling fee to pay with a card.  Get to 1st ATM – off.  Walk to 2nd ATM and try to draw the R650 I need and the machine only had R600. WTF??

We eventually agreed that I could give them R500 cash and they waived the 5% charge on the outstanding R150. It was a lady mechanic and she was great – definitely going back to her!

I then still had to put petrol in the car and on the N1 realized that the radio wouldn’t work without some code, I had to reset the clock and fix the electric windows.  All done whilst I was sat on the N1 in traffic with the Renault guy on the phone 🙂

All in all the day didn’t end up too badly, but it puts a dent in your day when you only arrive at work at 10h30 in the morning!  At least I have whole weekend ahead with the kids.

 If you are a working Mom and your Nanny doesn’t arrive due to the Taxi violence, and you then have to take the day off work do you:

1.  Deduct the day she is not at work from her leave
2.  Not deduct the day from her leave

 

First off, NO I’m not posting a pic.  I’m mortified.

Daniel does NOT sit still at a hairdresser, so I normally cut his hair with a pair of clippers that I use for hubby.  Last time I cut his hair I didn’t look properly and took out the #3 instead of the #4 comb and was ripped off about the short hair for ages by hubby and got frowned at by my Inlaws and Mother.

His hair has been looking shocking, far too long, so I put Lion King on tonight, stuffed him on a chair and CHECKED that I didn’t take the #3 comb and off we went.

I was halfway through the top of Daniel’s head when hubby came into the kitchen and said I was using the wrong size and I categorically said I had checked that I didn’t have the #3.  I didn’t.  I had the #2, the #4 was still in the box and Daniel has VERY short hair.

Shit, I’m such an idiot.  And hubby is having a field day.  Wait until the Grannies see him.  I’m SO not dropping him off at school tomorrow.

LOL

When Daniel arrived I used to have the usual conversations about breastfeeding etc, but the conversation I used to hate the most was when the Smug Mommies used to say that their babies all slept through from 6 weeks. Blah.  Daniel only graced us with a full night’s sleep at around 6 months.

Then came the conversations about kids’ eating habits.  Really hate those conversations, but we have our good days.

I’m in the potty training stage with Daniel now and all I hear now from the SM’s is how their little angels came and asked to have their nappies taken off and only ever had one little accident conveniently in the garden.  Double blah.

Daniel has so far managed to pee on:
My couch
The dog
The floor
The sandpit
The neighbours’ brand new chair
His car seat 
In the ficus pot outside
Probably in the fish pond
On the mat in front of the toilet
My mother’s persian rug (that one went down really well)
In the PnP trolley

My niece peed on my sister-in-law cellphone and I remember thinking at the time tsk tsk she should teach her better. Blah on me, I’m SO over that.

Shame, he is still learning and we do encourage him, but I really, really like my couch.

It has been almost a week and I can already see the difference in Daniel, it is amazing!  His eczema is clearing up, his chest is clear and he is generally a lot happier.  He has taken to the soy milk no problems, but not too happy about the soy yogurt.  I’m going to print out colorful pics of “Bob Square”, stick them on the containers and see if that helps.

He even took a bite of the rye bread we presented him with over the weekend, but that didn’t go down too well – partly because it didn’t have any peanut butter on it.  Baby steps, baby steps.

At some level I knew that we had to do this, but I probably just needed that last nudge/shove.

 

At great expense I might add, but worth it! 

It is amazing how much I have learnt this week:

Where to buy the cheapest soy milk (Wellness Warehouse)
Woollies is the only place I could find so far that sell soya yogurt and wheat free crackers that are not rye vita (yuk). 
That there is something called Sutherlandia (kankerbossie) that you can use for childrens’ eczema.  (And this after I have been looking for a natural rememdy for ages!)
That respiratory issues go hand in hand with eczema in children.
Fairview apprently makes the cheapest goat’s cheese

Anyone have any food suggestions that are alternatives to wheat, nuts and lactose??

 

Need I say more??

I have just read Sumanda’s post and it made me write this blog now instead of tonight.

I took Daniel for allergy tests this morning and he is nut, wheat and lactose intolerant.  Anyway, I had the tests done by a lovely lady in Sonstraal (Durbanville, CT) and she also gave me a list of natural stuff I could buy.  Needless to say I dashed off to Dischem at the speed of light 🙂

Whilst in Dischem I saw an old friend of mine I haven’t seen in about 5 years.  We grew apart for several reasons, I think mainly because she doesn’t live in my area and life just kind of happened. 

When I was pregnant with the girls, a mutual acquaintance told me that this friend had lost twins due to twin-twin-transfusion syndrome at around 19 weeks and I remember thinking at the time that I would love to contact her, but I felt like a bit of an ambulance chaser, especially because I was very far along and didn’t want to cause her any more pain.

She didn’t know that I had twins and when I told her she got tears in her eyes on the spot.  I really didn’t know what to say and just asked what happened and said that it probably is something that would stay with her for the rest of her life.  She agreed and said that she thinks about those babies every day of her life and will never forget them.  She has since had a little boy, but nothing will ever replace those babies.

Someone in my office also lost twins to TTTS when I was pregnant and it just really doesn’t make sense to me.  I don’t understand.

Even losing the unborn children stays with us forever. 

Another 1.1kg down, 17.9kgs to go!  I’m aiming to have a 1st birthday party for the girls on 14 March and want to see if I can lose at least 1 kg a week before then, which should mean another 5-6 kgs and that would make a huge difference!

I have decided that my clothes are divided up as follows (working backwards):
1.  post twin super fat #16’s
2.  post Daniel rather fat #14’s
3.  post broken ankle and first attempt to quit smoking chubby clothes #12’s
4.  pre-wedding comfortable #10’s
5.  post first attempt at Sureslim size 8’s

Look, lets be real, I’m not going anywhere near a #8 without the obligatory tummy tuck (yeah baby!!!) and boob job (eeekkkk!!), probably not even a #10.  But I would like to think I can manage to get down to a 12 without spending R50 000 and having surgical assistance (sigh)