New Week, New Things To Try. Now To Think About Making A Decision

As much as I love my hubby and kids, it's always nice and relaxing that first morning they are back to work and school after some time off. Hubby was only off the weekend but the kids have been off 9 days. So now mornings should be back to just me and Liam, that will soon have me feeling a little bit more "normal".

I DO miss routine. I love them all to bits but I don't seem to get anything done when the house is full. We tend to go out alot too when hubby is off work and it's always enjoyable. We went back to Stratford yesterday as it will soon be closing the car parks for the olympic games. We don't really feel like taking the kids on the trains around that time as London will be seeing an estimated 4 MILLION EXTRA people on it's train networks in the coming weeks. That is just mental!!!! So it's not going to be on our agenda. The car parks for Stratfords Westfield shopping centre hold 5000 cars and this will be closed from 18th June to the end of the Olympics in August for security reasons as you have to drive through the olympic village.

This time the kids got to meet some of the Olympic mascots. Well, their statues at least.

 

Every inch the sportsman in the family, Matthew enjoyed this much more than the other two. Matthew realises what a huge sporting oppertunity this is for England.

Yesterday was the first day back at school and rather uneventful. 

Today however has been chaos with a capital "C".

It all started so well, I was able to get an early appointment with the nurse for myself this morning directly after the school drop (More on that soon) and was just in the surgery to have another mum calling to me. It seems I should have sent in Matthews swimming gear today. They need it for 10.30 so could I get it to them before then. Ok, so I see nurse, rush home, pack his towel and swimshorts. Label them both. Pack them both and rush back to the school. As I have said many times, it's 20 minutes each way to the school. So by 10.10am I had arrived at the school a second time this morning.  I get there having rushed to be on time, hot and sweaty, my feet barely touched the ground to discover that within the last 5 minutes they had decided to call off todays swimming as the chemicals in the pool were not at a level they were happy with. 

T.y.p.i.c.a.l

Liam was not happy at being in the buggy so long as mummy rushed about. I let him out to walk to discover his nappy has come undone and he has a nice wet patch at the top of the back of his legs. 

W.o.n.d.e.r.f.u.l!

We then have to do a little shopping in the village. I need a few things from different places. The shops are busy. My patience is short. It's already been a long tough day and I had almost an hour to kill before collecting James. Somehow the different shops did tend to help time go by and Liam got the final 20 minutes in the park so I was able to relax for a little bit and unwind watching him on the slides.

He then kicks off major tantrum when we have to leave to collect James. He then cries all the way home. My brain is ready to explode. I have had a whining, crying angry 2 year old ALL morning and I had had enough.

So we finally get home, I make the boys lunch and no sooner than I've changed the said nappy and trousers and made Liam a ham sandwich then I go into the living room to find him sound asleep.

S.i.l.e.n.c.e.

B.l.i.s.s.

The nap didn't last too long but he's back to being a good little boy as always now. I guess the running about this morning was stressful for us both.

So............ my trip to the nurse.

It's because I want to come off the depo provera injection.

I wanted some advice as I have been thinking about getting the "contraceptive implant" fitted. (Sorry if you were getting excited then thinking that we had decided to have number 4 after all we're definitely over that idea - 3 is wonderful and enough for us.)

Since I don't want my next injection which is due this week I am temporarily on the pill until I decide whether to go for the implant as originally planned or give the IUS or IUD a try as they are all suitable for bigger women and are long term working. 

For my needs, I may actually be better with an IUD since it is NOT chemical/hormone based. Part of the reason I am changing my contraceptive is because of the weight gain it brings. It's hard enough shifting pounds without your contraceptive making it worse so this is a good option but I have to go to a specialist clinic to have it fitted. Another perk is that once fitted it works for 8 years. WOW. Downside, AF returns. Well, you can never have it all so I am now left with some bedtime reading to see what could be better. I had never really considered the IUD but it does seem an attractive alternative at the moment.