As I said in the last entry though, Angel was feeling tired and unwell and asked daddy not to send her to school on Wednesday. I had no call from the school and thankfully she came home happy and said she wasn't feeling as bad.
Yesterday morning (Thursday) she woke up with spots on her cheeks, high temperature, pale, red rimmed eyes, coughing, complaining of sore ears and her throat was red raw and very swollen. Before I'd even woken up properly T had decided she wasn't going into school. He called them and left a message to say she was ill again and wouldn't be in and he said that if they wanted to get up in arms about how much time she's having off then they could and it would be the straw that broke the camels back. (I think he is beginning to feel the same as me, whether he is wanting them to mess up so it will make the decision final and easier.) He ended up in a short argument with his dad over the issue of HE which his dad should have known nothing about if he'd not been told anything by Angel's head teacher. T had to cut it short before he had a chance to fully argue back the points his dad was making because he was going to be late for work.
T went out to work a short while later and I decided to make an appointment at the doctors to take Angel in and have her checked out. I managed to get one of my orders made and Angel feeling a bit better due to paracetamol before we had to go out. She was perfect in the doctors and couldn't be faulted; she was quiet, only talked in a whisper and played a game on my phone. The doctor called us in and checked Angel over and said that her tonsils are up and swollen and her chest is rattly but she feels that it is viral and Angel should fight it in her own time. She said that Angel is run down and needs plenty of rest, food and liquids to get her back up to health. (so no school for at least the following day).
I took her up to the chemist next to pick up my prescription and she was again so good and I treated her to a fruit yo yo that asked for. We walked around looking at the clothes and toys together then we got in the car to go home via the chip shop as Angel had been asking for chips for over a week and I promised her we could go on the way back. There was no where to park when we got there though and the traffic was horrendous so I made a quick decision to take her out for lunch at out local Morrisons cafe. She loved the idea and I just thought 'opinions and school be damned'. Sitting there eating with my little monkey I felt free, I was sharing something with her that we haven't shared in ages and it was a treat that both of us needed together. Even sitting there waiting for food she wanted to learn so we did a dot to dot picture and talked about the numbers on our table and what they meant if they were put together. She decided to chat away to an old couple we were in the line with too which was nice.
Today I woke up in a lot of pain. I suffer with inner ear infections a lot especially in the winter and being out in the cold the day before without a hat (even though Angel told me off and told me I should be wearing one) had caused it to flare. I'm still in a lot of pin now and unable to eat most solid things as it's gone into my cheek and my throat and teeth. Yet I was determined not to allow my discomfort wreck the opportunity to have a nice day with Angel at home. I was still struggling to wake up when she decided to read one of her books to me. It was one of the nicest ways ever to wake up being read a story by your little one :) She even read a few words she's only just learned to sound and managed to recognize most of them by sight.
Angel then asked me about colours and what happened if you mixed them so I decided to get the paint out and do some colour mixing with her so she could learn what mixes made what colour. We then had a look at some flashcards that I made; each one has the name of the colour on the front and on the back is a sticker of something that colour. The idea being to teach Angel colour words by recognition. I laid them all out of the table like a matching game and asked her to find me a colour. She amazed me and found all of the colours just by their spelling except ,brown, which she had trouble with and we talked about after. She picked out the usual colours by spelling but also gold and silver and grey and black. Proud doesn't describe how I felt.
She then had some time after lunch gluing and making snowflakes for our tree and then made a collage.
We then followed that up with one of our workbooks. She chose the book about shapes and we did several pages.
Now at the end of the day she is very very tired and I have to wonder if aside from her being a bit poorly still is down to her actually using her brain and learning.
This weekend I think we will need to talk again about the whole thing and I expect T will continue the argument with his dad.
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