Stepping into 2014- walking in My Shoes with Mooloo

Savvy_sewing

Thanks SavvySue.
I will make sure I do.
DGD has a very nasty Rash on her back and tummy. So it's a call to the doctors at 8am.
Will have to take her with me down to work, while I sort out jobs that I can do etc. Will have to put a note on shop hen we go to the doctors. If she can't go to school then her Mum is going to have to step up to babysit. She has been asked. Tomorrow I have help, so it won't be too disruptive.
I am well aware Pearcider will be rolling her eyes etc, and it's not good so soon after I was ill, but it's the nature of the beast isn't it.
I can bring work home, I can leave a note of my contact details for anyone who needs an urgent repair, they could come to the house if that urgent.
After we have seen the doctor I can plan better but until they are open there isn't much I can do.

thorsoak

Hope you get to the bottom of what's giving DGD the rash, Mooloo.

Savvy_sewing

DGD has shingles.
So no school for a week at least. As she could give Chicken Pox to the other children.
I've been to the shop, brought the work home, and done one job while we waited to see the doctor. I have one collection coming at lunch time to the house.
The other due today I will call and explain. It's not a rush collection so I'm sure he will be ok. Not ideal but that's all I can do.
at least I can see while DGD watches TV or plays on the computer etc.
Just going to tell her grandad now.

Savvy_sewing

I'm having problems with the text across my thread. It's all exclamation remarks on my screen!
Really weird.
Wondering of its my iPhone, or the whole web page?

Customer has collected her outfit. I've done the leotard that's wanted for tomorrow. I've also altered a suit, shortened the sleeves, and turned up the trousers, and taken them in too.
Stopped to do lunch for DGD and myself. It's strange being at home and not down at the shop. Never mind worrying that I am loosing the opportunity to get additional work in.
I used the opportunity to order my phone line etc for the shop. 29th October first date Open Reach can come to the premises.
But hopefully it will be a straight forward connection.
After I've had my tea, I've several other jobs to crack on with.
I need some wide elastic to tighten the little trousers for a toddler. It will have to wait until the morning as I haven't any elastic at home anymore.
Second Suit to alter the jacket next.
Then a zip replacement in some trousers followed by a pocket to mend.
At least I'm able to see at home and move the washing along etc at the same time.
twin1, is going to have DGD tomorrow, but not Wednesday, as she has other plans. So her saying that DGD is her priority, doesn't quite run true. She wouldn't have her today, as the place is too messy apparantly. Alas I can't access any other childcare.
But hopefully my new helper who starts tomorrow will be able to help on Wednesday and fend for the shop front, then DGd will have to come with me and I will sew in the workshop at the top of the building. It's only for a few hours as we shut at 12 anyway.
I will have to ask the babysitter if she is still able to do DGD on Saturday, she shouldn't be contagious by then. I have several people booked in on a workshop. Of course I won't have DS's GF as she's pregnant. So the shop will have to have the doorbell on, and I will have to multitask. But it cannot be helped.

Wyre

The !!! you see are due to the forum team attempting to stop a spam attack.

Good luck with your multi-tasking Mooloo and I hope the little one gets better soon.

Savvy_sewing

I felt a cup of tea coming on, after coming down to answer the telephone. My unpicker has decided to be blunt, and useless! So struggling to unpick the zip out of the trousers. I have done a bedspread/throw that was also lurking to be done, and the pocket after the suit jackets.
I doubt I will manage many more jobs this afternoon, as DGD will need feeding etc. Which reminds me I forgot to tell the afterschool club she wasn't going to be there. Better ring them now.

Savvy_sewing

Well I have replaced the zip in the trousers.
Then I have unpicked one from a dress in preparation for a replacement.
I also tacked two other jobs, and assessed the work required on four other jobs dropped off. I have decided that the trousers that one man dropped off on Friday, really are not viable alterations. Far too much to do, and may not be possible as so big, some 5 to 6" are just too much to take in.
I will have to call the customer tomorrow and tell my findings.
I don't like to say no to a job, but they are expecting miracles for little money. Time I am loosing out on, on some of their other jobs that really are too big an alteration.

dGD has gone to bed at 8pm. Leaving a mess in the front room where I have had to let her play while I was sewing. The hazards of life.

Savvy_sewing

It's been one of those days!
I took DGD to spend the day at her Mums. (I wish I hadn't).
Then drove back to get to work in time. I was only open 1 minute, and the first job came through the door. Several jobs in, I finally managed to start sewing around 11am!
My lady came to help today, and the shops been transformed, we have a Halloween window now, I made a few trick or treat bags out of hessian and black felt cats.
The Preloved section is fairly full now, and after a quick vacuum I hope it will be open tomorrow.
After work I drove back to collect DGD. She was having some chips, so I stopped for a cuppa. Wished I hadn't. The BF is moving in next month. Then infront of DGD he eventually went on to say he was upset with me for telling Twin1 that she wasn't going to have DGD permanently. I said I didn't believe in telling her lies or giving her false hopes.
He said when he gets up here that they intend to go to court to get DGD.
I told him that if he tried to do that, then I will stop all contact and go to court. ( I had arranged to let DGD go Thurs, stay over, Friday. But now I am really doubting my sanity and my ability too.)
I don't want to upset DGD, or twin1, but I am now hurting too. DGD is my life after all. I would be completely shattered to loose her, or to divide up the family.
What do I do? Am I being selfish? I told him that if he wants a child go have his own!! Then I left.
My heart is aching. I don't want to fight my family, but I do not believe they can give her a better life. I may not be perfect, but I have devoted my world to give her a future, even when in the beginning I doubted my ability. I can't imagine life without her now.

Brighton_belle

Mooloo, not only are they incapable of giving her a better life, they will give her a wretched god awful life.
You have been very selfless with your dgd to give her a decent life with consistent love - love is not living in a filthy pigsty. Love is constant practical care of a child and her emotional well being. Sadly your DD is not capable of offering this and her boyfriend has barely been in her life for 5 minutes.
I'll be even franker if you like - any court that hands her back is as good as committing child abuse as far as I am concerned. I would like to think this would be laughed out of court:(












I'm really sorry you are being put through this.

Eager_Elephant

Not the best way to get along with the girlfriends mother is it??

What a twit!!! Remember he has only heard things from Twin 1's point of view so what he has heard is likely to be very distorted.

Once he has been living with her for a while he will realise why she is not capable of having a child in the house permanently.

I know it is easy for us to say but please do not worry about this, social services removed DGD, they are hardly going to let her go back bearing in mind all the issues there have been in the years that have passed.

I would be wary of letting DGD stay over now, what if they won't give her back?