Saturday, November 03, 2007

Happy half-term - not

From 6 am this morning I was awoken at approximately 10 min intervals as it was S's turn to throw up, from 6 ft up bunk bed to clothes/ toy ridden floor. Miracuously only one shirt and some plastic, washable toys were affected, but mental note, thereis another reason to keep floors clear of stuff, apart from the obvious tripping risk, general stress that mess causes plus remembering what colour the floor is. Plus H decided to announce he had a bogey which I should be grateful for as others might have just smeared it on the wall (how do you get dried- on snot off textured wallpaper?sorry, I've been house-bound with 4 sick kids all week, cabin fever, lala lala).
We are now down to last toilet roll and out of kitchen roll, and DH has decided to stay one more day away. Now I have been contemplating having to get everyone ready to go to the corner shop including myself, but feel faint thinking about it, so have managed to find a muslin square (I do not mean a niqab;)) as a hanky and some 'tvättlappar' which are unknown in the UK I think, but are special paper that don't disintegrate when made wet and are used for all manner of things from cleaning kids faces to bums. So can use them as kitchen roll and for the other bathroom. We are down to the basics here and I am sometimes living from hour to hour, oh there's a coup in Pakistan, this should be much more concerning right now...

3 comments:

'EF' said...

Oh sweetheart! Last roll of toilet roll can make us very creative can't it? I've been known to cut squares out of old sheets before now...cos we live miles from the nearest shop and running out happens too often.

Hang on in there....sending you love and hugs.

'EF' said...

p.s: there is no way to get snot off textured wallpaper. Perhaps a sandblaster, but no, really..don't even attempt to try...it's like pulling a loose thread on a jersey.

UmSuhayb b David said...

H was practically begging me to take him out, so went to corner shop in the end, and then went to our cupboard in the cellar to get out his sit on car and found a whole load of rolls DH had bought in bulk once!
re wallpaper, as I suspected, it'll just have to have an extra lick of paint and will be extra-textured!! (Or else strip off all paper andstart again,let DH worry about that)