What a month!

Summer was great, lots of fun family time.

Then came September which I can only decribe as manic!  I know we still have a week left, but as from today things are changing here, hopefully.

After Rowans birthday life seemed to gather momentum and snowball out of control.......

The house was/is a mess, the kids are bickering all the time, Tris has work coming out of his ears and pops in for tea before having to go back out to look at someones trees, we are struggling to find our feet in the flowing rhythm we had going before the summer.

Then things kind of came to a head....

Rowan lost the plot with Reuben and shouted that he just doesn't want to see him, this prompted a bedroom shifty round as all space in the house was shared space.  Now both boys have their own space which they can share if they wish but also they can shut their door if they wish!

Then bedtimes became a real battle, where it would all end in arguements and me not sitting down until 8.30-9pm.  So now we have a new bedtime ritual, which so far is going really well and has transformed bedtimes (more on this another time)

Then Reuben fell off his bike in the garden, whilst carrying a fishing net in his mouth ( as you do!?) and cut up his lip really bad....

Then last week, Rowan got a throat infection, which triggered his asthma, so over the space of 24 hours we had 2 hospital trips, to be told each time something different.  Part of me believes that Rowans body is strong enough to deal with these infections but then I panic when his breathing is fast and doctors use terms like 'life threatening', but then each doctor has a different idea on what 'life threatening' is, so we are no clearer on when his breathing really is an asthma attack.  Fortunatley his homeopath saw him at short notice and helped us out with some remedies.

Then me and Reuben came down with the throat lurgy, feeling rotten.  We have watched lots of DVDs this week and not gotten much else done.

Then to top it all off Tristan groundworker put all his weight onto a dead branch in a tree and it snapped resulting in a big fall and a broken arm.  So now Tris has 6 weeks full of work and no one to work with!

Autumn equinox kind of passed us by in a blur, so this morning when Rowan woke us up to cries of 'the sun is rising and the sky has turned pink' we decided that today is the start of our autumn, lets start afresh.  and so far its been a lovely day, Tris went to an archery competition this morning and was winning, but we had to leave to go for my nans 87th birthday dinner, which was a lovely afternoon too.

Other good things from the last couple of weeks;

Rowan saw his first sunrise on the way to hospital and now wakes up eager each morning to look through the living room window to watch it.
Rowan learning to ride his bike a bit more.
Reuben letting Daddy put him to bed.


I now feel like I need a good de-clutter and then I think we will be dancing along to our rhythm again..