Channel Helen!!

After a week of illness, I had a stupidly long work and life to-do list today!

Audrey must have known as she woke up at 6am again after tricking me with a few 8am's these past few days (i.e. don't get complacent Mum, I'm the leader in this house)

The problem when she wakes that early though is that she really needs a morning nap. And she can't nap at nursery so felt very guilty taking her in when I knew she was already exhausted. To make matters worse, she only had a 45min sleep there at lunch and she was beside herself tired when I picked her up. She just didn't know what to do with herself and just kept wailing "Mummeeeeeeeee!!!"

While she was there, I got most of the big bits done on my list, stopping for a lazy hour on the sofa at lunch to watch a documentary about a hotel renovation in York that I'd taped from a few weeks ago. Felt very guilty lying there in the middle of the day watching it when I still had so much to do. Even worse was the fact that the woman (Helen) featured in the programme was running a business and had seven children!!! Who do I think I am? I mean really? My life is pampered compared to some mothers!!

The programme really put things into perspective and as a result I fired through the rest of my jobs, all the while thinking - channel Helen, channel Helen!!!

Today's blip pic is Audrey sat on the sofa (she likes to be on the sofa like us now) under a photo of her that we took when she was a baby. She's pulling the same face so I couldn't resist snapping her!