Paediatric nurse gets a fright!

Yes indeed she did. Last night I turned the light off for a peaceful sleep. Only to be woken at 0030 by a frightened sounding child crying with a raspy voice and a loud , harsh brassy cough. As I ran down the stairs I thought it was Emmy, then realised it was Harry, whilst at the same time thinking what are those noises, and then thinking that is a croupy cough, all at the same time. When I got into his room he was stumbling out of his bed, crying, as I think he wasn't sure what was happening. I took him upstairs and put him next to my bed in his fold out couch. Dosed him up on some Nurofen as he felt hot, and watched him as he tossed and turned. He only had a soft stridor and mild effort, BUT he went to bed well and woke like this. God I tell a parent at least weekley that kids can get sick very quickly. How those words flow so freely from my mouth, now they take on a whole new meaning. He has been ok today, a bit lethargic and an occasional cough, and his voice is husky, so I am anticipating he will wake again tonight, as they usually get worse before they get better. I have thought for years how it was interesting that Harry had never had croup, so there you go, now he has.

Had a nice day with Kim. A quick shop this morning to swap my new sneakers to a bigger size, and return a scanpan for a newie under the lifetime warranty. Then my sweet sissy went home in her new, lovely, sleek and sexy black Mazda 3. I then popped out to the hairdressers for a much needed touch up. Just had to get the roots painted. Bloody grey hairs torment me, I tells ya. I will leave you with some happy snaps from yesterday.
Night xxoo

OH P.S thanks sarah for the Picasa hint for cool photo collage

 

Weekend Ramblings!!

Ok, so what is happening, let me see.
Harry, Emmy and I went to Southland yesterday, as I took some meat back that I bought on the 31, and when i looked at it thursday night, (the 2nd) to see if we would eat it, or the mince, i realised it expired on the 1st, dodgy. Anyway, we ended up somehow bringing home a new "pet". Yes i got harry a Siamese fighting fish. He was only $12 so i thought bargain, but by the time i got some foliage, water conditioner, food and rocks I had spent $50. They certainly saw me coming, LOL. harry has named him Nemo, and he so does not look like Nemo, he is vwery blue,and only blue. In even more exciting news, I popped into my fave jewellers , Trewarne at Southland, and to my delight, they have the Pandora line. Woo Hoo. Because I don't want no dodgy fakes from ebay etc. I want authentic Pandora of course.


In other news, (which i was going to keep to myself), as i am so ashamed of myself turning into a fatty boombah, that telling everyone, is like admitting that I am overweight, and if i fail then i would be even more embarrased. But in an effort to have my friends support, and in order to make me accountable I am telling you my secret....
Today I started Light and Easy, and I plan to do it for maybe 6 weeks. My short arse (aka petite LOL) 158 cm frame weighs in at 74.2 kg., Massive I know. God pre harry when I lost weight before I remember saying to myself "right I will never be over 60 kg ever again. yea, well 2 kids later and i need to join overeaters anon. In a homage to my impending weight loss i even threw out half a packet of salt and vinegar chips last night. Now that was hard, LMAO. So here I am day 1, so far so good, hehe. God help, that's all i can say.

Last night i enjoyed 2 DVD's - Miss Potter and Razzle Dazzle. Both good. I also really enjoyed some yummy Thai takeaway Pad Thai gai, delish. Bye takeaway!!We have been to swimming this morning (most pleasant sight, NOT!), bye the way mark is in Geelong, did I mention that. Having some him time at the footy. He is loud and proud Cats supporter at the moment. And I am going to go scrapping tomorrow, 12 - 4pm. So that will be nice. Right must go make a coffee, and work out how many cals extra I can have with breastfeeding.(yougurt, not chips or biscuits, damn).

Oh and I have been tagged as a rockin blogger chick, and I am meant to tag 5 more. Don't know 5 people who read my blog, that have blogs. So I tag Annie and Leia.. And I pretty much think it just means we are cool, hehe.

cheers from the cool chick! :)