We have just been round to take milk and bread to Emmas in readiness for the return of Emma and Poppy from Portugal tomorrow. I have really missed them, and will be glad to see them and have lots of cuddles.
The plane back is round about breakfast time, so Emma can give Poppy her breakfast before they set off for the airport, the flight is about 2 or 2 and a half hours, so by all accounts they should be back after lunch, maybe 2pm Emma seems to think, including the travel from the airport back to Perton. Hopefully they won`t have any delays, it must be a nightmare being stuck in an airport for hours with a baby. What to do with them?!
Emma is at work on Friday, teachers training day, so Poppy will be with me for the time she is at work then on Monday the children are back at school so Poppy will have her first day at the child minders. Emma did not want to take her to the child minder on Friday, being the day after her return for their holiday and I shall be very pleased to see Poppy anyway so I don`t mind, I have really missed her. She will be going to the childminders for the day on a Monday and a Friday, when they went to meet her and have a chat about Poppy going to her Emma put her on the floor and Poppy immediately crawled off in the direction of the toys, not a bit bothered about being in a strange place! Hopefully, she will be fine, it will be good for her to have other children to play with and the childminder will take her to playgroup which I would find hard to do, not being able to walk that far!
I don`t like to admit defeat and say I cannot cope, but looking after a one year old is very hard at any time, for anybody, but when you are 56 with arthritis it is harder than you can imagine! I shall still have her 3 days a week, luckily Grandad finishes at 2.30pm from work so I have help in the afternoons, and my friend Jill will, as usual, be round to help me in the mornings so we shall cope. I love looking after her and would miss the time we spend together if I was unable to do it. She is such a little star, she has brought joy into our lives.
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