Good Friday...??

No! Not particularly... we all slept late which made a nice change altho all day i've been doing things like its a Saturday because thats just how its felt all day =/ ..i've dived in head first with the potty training as my first attempt a couple of weeks ago was thwarted by 'that virus' that we all had and Ninas throwing up issues which resulted in extra doses of 'pooh drink' .. so- not wanting to make more problems for myself, i decided last week to put it off a little. Aileen, on Wednesday, questioned how we'd gotten on with the training as we'd discussed it the fortnight before and i felt guilty for not managing to get anywhere so i'm hoping by the time Aileen is here next, Nina will at least be out of nappies during the day- no promises tho =) .. so, yesterday i started the day with Nina having knickers on inside her nappy but i don't think Nina was uncomfortable at all so by midday i decided to go all in and grabbed a new multipack of knickers out of the draw ...oh bless her and her cutee lil butt! ..sadly, she just didn't get it- not in the sightest and i was feeling really disheartened -i know.. i know.. Rome wasn't built in a day *sighs ..so this morning, after our lie in, i did the toilet routine whilst Nina impressed me by counting to 100 three times whilst perched on the loo but she wasn't giving up the goods so, to protests from Ben, i grabbed a pair of butterfly knickers and a potty and headed downstairs. She was great at first.. almost 2 and a half hours before we had any accidents and that was more my fault than Ninas ...so clean knicks and we're off again... only this time i was making dinner when the next accident happened =/ ..Ben was getting more miffed with each one and i was getting more pissed at him for mouthing off as Nina was going to end up associating the shouting with her accidents and we'd end up getting nowhere.. that just led to him mouthing off more about me never backing him up ..blah blah blah ..so, i'm doing this on my own.. i do expect the credit when its all done altho i'm sure that Ben will insist he played his part =/ ...don't get me wrong.. Bens here in body *L .. he's quite happy to take a potty and clean it up.. or hand wash lil dainty knicks if need be... but i think he thought this would be something that just clicked with Nina- i didn't have any expectations and am just happy that we finally did get somewhere today- it might have been 3 or 4 accidents into the day, but finally Nina sat herself down on the potty and watched telly for a few minutes.. i truly thought she was just using it for a chair til she stood up with a damp patch on her butt *L ..bless her.. i think i made her panic a little with my cheers but i was gobsmacked and excited =)) ...i dug out a star/reward chart that i was sent thro the post as Nina loves stickers and we opened one of the doors on it to reveal a bright shiny star- Nina was sooo excited about that- so much so that we had tears for the next half hour because i wouldn't let her open another one *LOL ...i was hoping that we might head out some place with Ben having the day off work but it was the brightest day of the year so far and Ben came back from the shops complaining he was sunblind and that we weren't going anywhere ...mebbe tomorrow huh altho i suppose i should see how well Ninas training is going first *L ..he did push that we should ask my sis to take us to the beach on Monday but i'm fed up of having that arguement with him so i cut him short and never brought it up again.. its a shame that the same couldn't be said for the constant bickering that went on ALL day between him and Lauren.. i've hit an all time low about this- if i'm not having to listen to them going on, i'm thinking about them going on and have realised that actually- this isn't something that will pass; it isn't something that will just disappear one day; this isn't something i/we* am handling particularly well; and this isn't something that someone else will make all better for me/us* and that i/we* DO have to do some serious thinking about where i/we* go from here =((

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