The lowlight was discovering that my little chicken has the pox! Jack (DS1) has picked up this lurgy from nursery. We're pleased to get it and then be done with it, but the nights are bad as he is itchy and doesn't want to sleep.
I was going to do more hand quilting on this
but decided it was more important to eat an entire tub of chocolate ice-cream to cheer myself up and didn't want any chocolate stains on it. The pics are not good, but show up the quilting better in this light...
Also received my baggie for the BlockBuddySwap Bag o' Stuff quilt challenge this week and have been thinking, thinking, thinking. Can't show you the baggie as it's meant to be a surprise. We only find out afterwards who's bag we had and who had our bag. Should be fun.
2 comments:
Oh chicken pox...no fun. We went through that a couple of years ago..one 2 year old and one 11 year old...trust me the 11 year old was worst than the 2 year old...larger vocabulary to moan with. ;)
One thing I did that was some what useful was to give them oatmeal baths. Take a cup of plain oatmeal and put it in a nylon, tie the end up and put it in a bath...letting the water run through it. The bath will go milky, but as the oatmeal is in a nylon it stays contained...making the clean up easy. You can even use the nylon/oatmeal thingy to rub/dab gently on the back...the oatmeal is very soothing on the sores.
sorry to say this Karol-Ann but you might be in for the long haul now because often one just gets over it when the next one starts - mind you once the spots appear at least the child usually feels less ghastly and so long as you can find something to keep the itching at bay you might find the time when you're all in isolation to get some sewing in. Maybe piriton (usually for allergies) might help from the inside and you used to be able to buy calomine in a cream form which I found a big help when my two youngest had it a few years ago. Jane's comment about the oatmeal sounds interesting too
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