BABY FACTORY

So we're driving past the shop The Baby Factory and our conversation goes like this:

Mr 7: "I don't know why anyone would want to shop at The Baby Factory."

Mama (mischieveously - this is an old game):"I don't know. Maybe they want to buy a baby?"

Mr 7:"Duh, Mama. You know you don't buy babies there. You buy THINGS for babies there."

Mama"Oh, that's right I forgot that you actually know how babies are made."

Mr 7 putting hands over his ears: "Don't tell me again. The last time you told me how babies were made I had a nightmare!"

Hopefully it won't be so scary when he's a big boy!

BOOTCAMP

Last night at 6pm I had a date......with bootcamp.

It was part of my gym's Midwinter Makeover Challenge. They challenged us. Could you handle a one hour bootcamp session? Would you show up and give it a go?

I did.

Thank goodness I was partnered with Kazz - one of the gym's superfit instructors who practically dragged me along at times.

PT drills, dozens of push ups (full body ones!), running up hill, and down, and up again. Team drills. Carrying, piggybacking, dragging your team mates. Leap frogging, rolling. sit ups. Running attached to teammates. You name it we did it. In the wet. And then we had to run back to the gym in pairs. Taking turns to carry a 5 kg medicine ball above our heads. We all had to hold our hands above our heads at all times. If you were caught dropping your hands then you and your partner had to drop and do 5 push ups. Everyone got caught out. We got caught near the end - outside the gym. By the pedestrian crossing. We had to do pressups while cars waited for us to cross! We were so stuffed it didn't matter.

Did we care? Nup. Our team got back to the gym first.

We survived bootcamp.

WHAT IS A MAVEN?

Oops. I nearly forgot. Before we get to the end of September I need to show you something.



As of 1 September AMR Consulting is no more. The place where DH spends many more daylight hours than he spends at home has re-branded. They are now known as...




http://www.consultmaven.co.nz/ (The new website is being developed.)



Do you know what a Maven is? I didn't (and I thought I was well read!).

But now I know.

(and a PS to those who wanted to know where I met Colin Meads - it was at the 'Thrive Wellington' seminar ).

A LEGEND

The term 'legend' or 'icon' is bandied about too often. But someone my friend, L and I met yesterday truly is a New Zealand icon.

Lou. Colin Meads (living legend). And me.

BAD MOTHER

Sometimes when kids are sick don't you just think "oh, you'll be fine in a day or two?".

Miss 12 had two days off school a couple of weeks ago. Two days off school last week. And on Sunday she wasn't feeling well again. Headache, sore back and neck, threw up (in the way to Father's Day yum cha!). I said "I think I'll take you to the doctor in the morning."

So I'm on the phone talking to my sister (an ED nurse) and just mention Miss 12's illness. "I think you should take her to the after hours doctor now" she says. DH has just flown out of town for work so I get my other sister to sit with Mr 7. At 8pm we head off to the after hours doctor. The doctor is worried.

The doctor sends us to hospital. Lots of tests. Questions. Care. Blood tests. Temperature 39.2. Miss 12 cries. She has a viral infection. I guess it could be worse.

We get home in the wee small hours. She needs to stay home this week. A nurse from the chidren's unit will phone us every morning. To check her progress.

She was very sick.

Bad mother.