crappy crappy crappy day in a crappy week. I enjoyed 2 really fab weeks around my birthday, feeling really content, and don't want to lose hold of that feeling even now it looks like we're back to Challenge Central.
I don't know how other working single parents do it and I take my hat off to them. I simply can't seem to fit everything in that needs doing, and it just takes a small obstacle for me to topple into meltdown. Today's is the uniform shop. My son last week put his elbow through one of his school jumpers and another is too small leaving just one new one that I got him when I was semi-organised back in July. As he gets it dirty every day without fail, I need more than one, so I went again this afternoon for the 4th time in the last couple of weeks, and they still have none in stock and the next delivery isn't due til next week now. There is no other place I can get it from - they are the only stockist, and I asked today if there was anyone I could ring or anything to hurry the process and no there isn't. So I leave feeling like an inadequate mother for not foreseeing this back in July when I should have just ordered 3 and been done with. This is compounded by stuff it's not fair for me to blog about so is really just the icing on a crappy cake of feeling inadequate parentally.
On the plus side I actively took my lunch break today - normally I work through it unpaid - and purchased every vegetarian source of iron I could find in Lidl as I'm also worrying that maybe we don't get enough iron in our diets. So tonight we've made chocolate and apricot and seed flapjacks. I'd hoped to make prune and almond brownies but maybe we'll do that next week. Might as well get our nutrients in a chocolate coated way :)
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