Up The Farway Tree

Happy New Year!

Well, that's all the festivities over for another year. I had a lovely Christmas at home with my family. Present opening, as normal, took hours to complete before we all settled down to a lovely home cooked Christmas dinner in the afternoon, and then played some games and watched TV in the evening. Unfortunately since Christmas I haven't been feeling very well, so New Year was a bit of a struggle really. It was clear that the last lot of IVs had been fairly ineffective, so I started some oral antibiotics on Boxing day. I was not making any progress over the past week, so finally headed up to the hospital yesterday. I have to try adding in another oral antibiotic first, in a bid to space my IV's out more, so I will see how things go over the weekend. I am just feeling very tired and breathless at the moment, but hopefully I will start to see an improvement soon.

You will all be pleased to hear that Seb has enjoyed his holidays. He has for the most part been well behaved, but with the usual moments of sheer naughtiness. The covert food scavenging continues this year, with him demolishing 2 pieces of madeira cake left on the coffee table, whilst we were busy eating dinner. There was another incident of him being found on the dining room table, licking a left over desert bowl (embarrassingly this incident occurred in someone else's house). There was the usual stealing of objects not belonging to him, and the climbing onto things he shouldn't be climbing onto. A new one for this year, was finding him sitting inside the writing bureau (obviously the lid was open). I'm not sure if he wanted to write a letter or if he was looking for something in particular. What never fails to amaze me is the indignant look he gives you when he is found in these strange places - its a 'hello? Can I help you?' look, as if it's perfectly normal to be sitting in the writing bureau. Although in Seb's world it probably is.

Now, I'm off to play the new nintendo DS I got from Andrew for Christmas. Oh wait...yes, that's right, I can't get on it, because Andrew has hardly put it down in days......funny that....