Traintracks

Ben was VERY excited to go on the train this afternoon!!

My dear blippers - I have not vanished :) I am tired and busy and am barely remembering to grab iPhone snaps at the moment let alone actually sit down to blip. We were away over the weekend and I do have a picture for each day so I will get my journal up to date at some point soon hopefully!

Ben's Gran is staying with us for a few days this week. This morning she took him off to tots while I had a diabetic clinic to attend (they phoned me yesterday to remind me which was good because it was in none of my diaries or calendars!). It was a GOOD clinic. I've come away feeling a lot more positive, a lot more in control, a lot less frightened, a lot more confident. I'm going to be sent on a carbohydrate-counting course ("buffet-training"!) so I can learn how to estimate more accurately how much insulin to have with food rather than just taking my blanket amount, and I've got a better understanding of what kind of food releases sugars quickly and more slowly and how the insulin works with the food.

All good!

This afternoon we took the train into Brighton to get some trainers for Ben. We'd bought some in Worthing over a week ago, got home and found they were too small so went back to exchange them for a bigger size. But, they didn't have the next size up so ordered some in for him. They didn't arrive and didn't arrive and eventually yesterday the store manager did some phoning roynd to find out why they'd not arrived and it turns out the warehouse had none in and hadn't bothered to tell them. So, more phoning round found that there was one pair left in the Brighton store, which they kindly agreed to hold for us til today :)

And while we were on the train I got a text from a different shop to say another pair of shoes had arrived in for us! So we'll be having lunch in town after toddler group tomorrow, to pick them up.

I'm just having a lie down before dinner now. It smells good. Sausages always do!

Will have to start catching up on all your journals soon, bear with me while I'm knackered though :) xx