Thursday, April 29, 2010

Facebook all messed up

I'm going to have a grumble about Facebook today.
I have been a loyal user for the past two years, adding more and more friends and connections with every passing day, sharing in their latest and greatest, highs and lows, everything! So imagine my shock this morning when I looked on my profile page and realised that I suddenly could not see ANY of my friends. In fact, it showed me as having 0 Friends! I started looking on the Home page to see updates about my friends going about their daily business....only to see posts made by me.... I am now wondering how long it will take Facebook support to react to my report (supported by screenshots I might add!) as I would very much like to be able to Facebook again as usual! May not seem like a big deal, but Facebook has provided me with a platform to catch up with long-lost friends, share in their happy and sad news, see photos of their children, homes, pets....and to generally keep up with their lives. To suddenly not have any of that was quite a shock!
However, I would like to point out that I am not that sad that I can't live without it....I just prefer to have it than not. (note to John!)
On the whole today has been a good day. The sun was shining and the temperature was more than ambient....the little fella had his jabs and at his monthly weigh-in had gained sufficient weight for the doctor to say he's doing well. My little princess had a good day at school, and was beaming from ear to ear when I collected her from school. My older son had a good day at school and spent most of the afternoon learning his school "hymn" as part of the school's 40th anniversary celebrations. His sheer determination to get it right is encouraging - he takes this very seriously! I am sure we will have another rendition of it in the morning over breakfast....
Can't believe tomorrow is Friday - where has the week gone?
On that note, it's time to say night night.... Night Night!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Sleep, what's that?

Writing yesterday's blog was SO tiring that I crashed out at 11.15pm after giving my little fella his last feed for the night. I think the house could have fallen down around me and I wouldn't have even known it. Woke up at 5.15am to hear the little fella gurgling and chatting away....and before I could leap out of bed (ha ha ha...I never leap anywhere) the gurgling turned to crying...so I got out of bed to change his nappy, feed him and put him back to bed....And at this point the big dilemma of the morning was upon me - depending on how long it would take to feed him, would I get anymore sleep before the alarm went off at 6.20am? Well, I was fortunate that the little guy knew mummy needed more sleep, so I got a 2o minute nap. But of course, did I feel refreshed afterwards? NO WAY!!!
So now I have taped my eyelids open so that I can see what I'm doing (very helpful when driving the car I find). And in less than two hours I will be collecting my older kids from school (here in Belgium we parents are fortunate enough to have our children at home with us on Wednesday afternoons.... ) for an afternoon filled with activities. I think after today I will need to be in bed before my kids are ready to sleep!!!!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

New to this

I love to write...so why has it been so hard to start writing this blog?
Anyway, having sat here staring at the screen for the better part of a day (not constantly I can assure you!) I decided to just go for it. Set up the account, created my username and then panicked...not knowing what on earth to write about!
In addition to starting a blog, I also decided to start "Tweeting"...and have been reading those of MrsStephenFry...I have to confess that I have been having a quiet chuckle to myself. (well, I think my husband and older son might disagree with my use of the word "quiet" ) I do feel I have a lot to learn about the art of Twitter and Blogging and hopefully with time I will improve!
On this note I should probably head into the kitchen and start thinking about preparing dinner before it's time to go to bed!
Tomorrow is a new day and perhaps I will be brave enough to write again...in the meantime, goodnight!