Family woes

 Well it seems that I blinked and missed February because we are in March now. I still seem to be very busy with coffeeshop at church and did another large scale preparation of tomato and cheese pasta on Monday - all packed into two portion foil trays for the freezer. It is not quite as time consuming as the cottage pie or the lasagne but my back was complaining loudly by the time I was finished. 

Covid has been going around our family. First my eldest grandson had it (although he was asymptomatic) then a couple of weeks later his mum went down with it and was not too good. Then my younger daughter got it for the second time. She was really poorly. Unfortunately the test she did at home was positive but the one at the clinic was negative so her school said she had to come in because there were so many staff off ill. So having forced herself to cope with work for a whole week, she went down even harder than she should have. I am not impressed with that school. Her doctor said that indeed had covid and she was off for three weeks and is starting back on a 50% timetable for a week followed by a 75% timetable. Very little effort makes her feel like she has run a marathon so I hope she copes at school. While she was ill, youngest granddaughter went down with covid and was not very well with it. She was not as fortunate as her big brother. Then last week, not to be outdone by his cousins, youngest grandson went down with gastroenteritis. What a poorly lot! Thankfully the ones that started first are now a lot better although they have not got much energy - apart from eldest grandson who is absolutely fine.

I was in school yesterday invigilating an art exam - and getting paid for watching paint dry ..... : )