1. He won't tell me what's wrong -- I don't think he knows himself. He's just not happy, lying there thrashing and making the uh-uh-uh noise that our code for "I want something". I do all the things I need to do to be comfortable myself and then we sit together in the dark before dawn. I distract him until he is calm, and then I hold him until he is quiet. Eventually all the kick and the discontent goes out of him and I can roll his sleeping body on to the bed beside me and try to get some sleep myself.
2. I wake to Nick saying that he is working from home today.
"But..."
"You're not well and he's not well. I'm staying here."
Later, during one of his breaks, I clear the diary and feel very relieved.
3. The magic of cleaning silver by putting it in a bath of salty water with a piece of aluminium foil.
We missed you at gamesnight! Pete's gnome might have kept his head if your druid had been on hand ;)
ReplyDeleteHope you're feeling better for next month
The carnage might have been even worse had I been there, one never knows with dice.
DeleteNice you can quiet Nick by just holding him. It works for me too.
ReplyDelete...It was Alec, Nick sleeps upstairs away from all the wriggling.
DeleteSalty water and aluminum foil? What a great idea.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's pretty effective, though you have to polish a little afterwards and of course you can't do it on anything that you can't submerge. I'm not sure how it works -- I used to understand it when I was at school.
DeleteWhat a great mama you are, and what a fine dad your husband is, too. You inspire the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteYou only get to see the best of us, I think. If you saw the rest you would be horrified!
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