Wind and rain!

What a day! We (I say we ... Nicola!) cleared up the aftermath of the birthday party yesterday evening while I sorted out Lew, then we watched TV for a bit and started to re-arrange the furniture. Then I got a shower and Jayne (Homecare) came and played with Lew and Evie and me and Nicola sorted out the dining room and finished tidying up. At 11am, Katie from Bluebell Wood came to go through Lew's care plans - which we decimated!!! All changed since we first drafted them! Frances from social services came with a rep to look at the garage to give a quote for the conversion. Nicola made us all a lovely cup of tea (except Frances as she came just too late!). The morning seemed to fly by! After everybody had left, we had a mad dance around the dining room, Agadoo, Superman, Birdie Song, etc (!!!) and then we calmed down and got ready to go to the outlet. As we set off, it was sunny and bright. Within 5 minutes, it was strong wind and pouring with rain!! Luckily we were prepared! Raincoats, raincovers (for pushchairs) and a sunny attitude!!! We went to Thorntons and had a lovely lovely lovely hot chocolate (complete with cream and chocolate flakes!) and Nic had a lemon tart and I had a double chocolate cheesecake slice! Lew and Evie were asleep in the pushchairs! Unfortunately, Lew woke having a seizure but it stopped after just a few minutes. However, it was followed by a 3 minute absence which he hasnt done for ages. He had another absence which lasted 6 minutes at bed time. So we think he might be working up to a major epileptic seizure again as the last time he had alot of absences, we ended up calling an ambulance in the middle of the night ... arrgghhhh! We had a wander round the shops, bought some healthy seeds and stuff in Julian Graves and then some not healthy chocolate in the Cadbury shop! Evie and Lew played in the soft play for half an hour. I sat with Lew and he loved watching Evie and some other children play! We got some great photos - will load them on to the computer at the weekend I expect. We walked home and it tipped it down again!! But we still managed to smile! When we got home, James played with Lew for a bit, Evie had her tea, and then it was bed time for the children. Lew was shattered, had his 6 minute absence (which was quite frightening for James as he hasnt seen one for a while) and then he was okay and we felt all right to let him go to bed. Nicola, James and me had a lovely tea in the 'new' dining room - we have moved the dining table into the conservatory and made the old dining room into a play room for Lew and then James went out to see Steve and Nic is on her computer and I'm on here, but soon I'm going to have a bath and go to bed as I am also shattered! We heard from our friend Helen that Lew was in the Freepress again (about the charity offering us a trip to EuroDisney), but I havent seen the article yet! They dont sell papers at the Yorkshire Outlet! James and I have decided (sorry Lee!) that we are going to kidnap Nicola and Evie because it is such a wonderful pleasure having them here! So Lee - if you want to see them, you'll have to come and live in Doncaster!