A much better day

Thank you - as always - for your encouraging and lovely comments. I'm going to endeavour to not winge in this post to make a change!!!

I got to bed nice and early last night and Oz, bless him, didn't wake up till 7.40. Hoorah! So I feel more rested. We had a nice morning, had to get ready to be out early and drop the car off at the garage by 9am. I was a bit worried actually but luckily my friends Nicky and Julie also planned to be in Bromley that day. Cos we were in so early I had the bright idea of going to the local library and having a book sesh with Oz - he was very happy running around and reading. We met up with the others at 10 and wandered for an hour - then went to Starbucks. Oz was being good up until that point and lasted about 20 minutes before losing the plot - but I had time for a lovely skinny mocha and skinny blueberry muffin.

I went for a walk with Oscar to stop him ruining everyone else's coffee break - went to a couple of charity shops and picked up some bargain books - really new titles for £1.50 each. And a book for Oz to keep him quiet.

Bought him a sausage roll and then he conked out in the pushchair. Julie and I had a lovely lunch in Miso (where I should have had lunch with Mum and Dad yesterday) and a really good chat in peace. Oz woke up as we left and Julie gave us a lift home. Hoorah again!

Oz spent most of the afternoon in the garden -the spawn is still there but I put him in his waterproof trousers and jacket - I thought I'll just hose him off if he gets covered in it! He was happily playing with next door's cat for nearly an hour - giving me a bit of time to do the washing and stuff. AND phone Rob - finally managed to get hold of him at 7.30am his time. Was really lovely to talk to him and Oscar had great fun saying "pop" down the phone. Don't know if he's americanising his name for his Daddy or just saying the word cos he likes it!

My mum came round and minded Oz while I took the 2 buses to get the car. It was only (!) £300 which was better than I expected - full service, MOT and repairs to the bumper. We're already in money troubles this month so I've booked an appointment with my accountant (Mum) to go through our bank statement and work out where the money is going and how to stop us haemorrhaging money each month. Time to stop overspending and really tighten our belts. I'm dreading it but I need to do it - I'm so rubbish with money!

Oz didn't beat me up at bath-time - I managed to distract him when he did start to hit - I don't think he means to - he just gets a bit giddy when he's tired.

So tonight he got his 2 stories, his milk and his song and although I can hear he's still awake, he's quite quiet. I feel much better about it. I hated last night - felt really down (as you could have told from the entry).

So I can cope on my own. I'm going to cook a pork chop for my tea (Rob hates pork so it's an opportunity for me to have a yummy dinner I wouldn't normally get). And watch Desperate Housewives from last week which my lovely mum taped for me.

No plans for tomorrow yet but at least I have a car in good nick again.