Chickenpox Has Made Us Social Outcasts!

Written by Lisa on Sunday 5 March 2006

Just as Ray starts to get over the chickenpox, and stops waking every half an hour at night with the itch and pain, spots start appearing on Baby D’s face. We now have two casualties.

Typically this weekend was supposed to be packed full with activites. We had a birthday party on Friday, a meet up of our old Mother and Toddler group on Saturday and I had a hen night to attend on Saturday night.

Everything had to be cancelled, we didn’t want to pass the illness to any other kids (or pregnant women) and I didn’t feel it would be fair to leave the hubby alone with the kids if they were waking all night.

So as cabin fever set in we have been trying to occupy all our time without watching TV 24 hours a day. I felt most sorry for Jay who is perfectly well and rearing to go, but hasn’t left the house in days. Hubby took him out for a country walk in the snow on Friday evening which he loved and my sister took him out for the afternoon yesterday. It may have been to Tescos but he loves any individual attention at all, and was thrilled to be getting in a different car and to be eating grapes while being pushed around in a trolley without his sister poking his ear.

We spent this evening making cornflake buns, getting a long bath to remove all the chocolate that was left on our hands faces and legs (?) from licking the bowl, and then eating the cornflake buns. During all this I must have received at least 50 kisses from Ray and Jay and was told at least 10 times that I’m a “good mummy” who is loved “a million, million, million”!

So all in all the weekend at home was well spent, and the house is a lot tidier. We have buns, about 100 snowflakes made by Ray and homemade birthday cards a-plenty. Maybe we should try staying at home more often!