Childminder.

In September Poppy will be going to a childminder for two days a week while her Mummy and Daddy are at work. Not that I wanted her to go to a childminder, but I am finding things hard looking after her full time, she is a good little girl, and she is one year old, and as anybody who has children knows, looking after a one year old is very tiring. It is especially tiring when you are 56 years old, and when you have arthritis it is doubly difficult. Just bending down to pick her up all the time or bending down to play with her, hurts. I will still look after her the other three days so will still see lots of her, and when she is with the child minder she will have other children to play with and will be taken on outings so that will be a benefit to her as taking her out, to playgroups for instance, is something I am not able to do, not being able to walk far enough to get there! I only wish I could.