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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong.

Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right"

Mark Twain

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Bed Wetting - At My Age!

I can’t believe it, I am over 40 and this week I wet the bed. Yes, you read right, I wet the bed. I am not talking dribbly pants here, I soaked myself. I wanted to cry and not with laughing.

Imagine how embarassing it is to wake your partner in the middle of the night to say ’sorry darling, just need to change the sheets, because I’ve wet myself’. Thankfully, we’ve been together a while and he is very understanding, even helped me turn the mattress over!!

How did this happen? My brain totally and utterly tricked me, let me explain.

I used to wet the bed as a child so I am still quite paranoid about having last wees before bedtime etc. Sometimes my daughter wakes in the night, so it is also a signal for me to use the loo before getting back into bed. This particular night, after having a few nights of my daughter waking up in the night and being very tired, my husband very kindly woke up and said “I’ll go”.

Magic words! I did note that I could probably do with going to the toilet but in an attempt not to disturb my daughter I thought (stupidly now) I’ll wait a bit for her to settle, then go.

Oh how wrong I was. I must have fallen into a really deep sleep and then it happened, I dreamt I needed the toilet and worse still I was sitting on it.

I even remember in the dream thinking “am I really on the toilet?”, to which my brain said “yes, you’re fine, carry on”. Safe in this ‘knowledge’ I went for it.

It was when (within my dream) I thought should I really feel this wet when I’m using the toilet that the alarm bells rang and I woke up. I tentatively placed a hand under the bedclothes and was horrified.

I haven’t done that for many, many years. I’ve had the dream of being on the toilet before but immediately woken up before any damage was done.

I now think this is the repayment I got for allowing my husband to settle my daughter. Or maybe it was because I had a full on ‘banging cupboard doors’ strop in the kitchen that morning but that’s another story . . . . . .

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Introduction to Emma’s Dilemma’s

It’s been said that we all have a book inside us waiting to be written (or something like that, never been good on specifics!).

Maybe that’s true and there are probably people out there worthy of that statement. I would expect most women have the ability to write about juggling and multi-tasking!

Me . . . I have difficulty remembering what I went into a room for, so I’d have a lot of trouble writing my own story. Plus my limited use of adjectives would make it quite boring. I really like the word ‘nice’ and it covers a multitude of sins when describing something, but it does have a feel good factor/value. Only, my English teacher at school spent a lot of time trying to encourage the use of words other than nice to describe things.

Why do I mention this, because it’s something that has stuck with me since school, a memory if you like. I have lots of individual memories, not enough to write a book but maybe enough snippets that are mildly amusing, embarrasing, sad or daft even. However, you may be able to relate to them or you might think, thank goodness it’s not just me.

And that’s what this section is about. Join me on a rollercoaster adventure of emotions, funnies and everyday life that you can all hopefully relate to.

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It Doesn’t Have to be Perfect

I have made a decision today.  As the proper website can not be formulated for about a month, I’ve decided to create areas within the blog for some of the articles I am picking up.

I will also check with my writers to ensure that they are happy with this. 

It may help increase the traffic to the blog and start bringing interest to the site.  It’s not perfect but at least I feel as though it’s moving forward.  I can also scoot around other blogs and see if there are any women writers that I can link to or encourage usage of their articles.

I actually feel really positive about this.  It won’t work exactly like a website, but the content will be there.  The really good thing is I am able to use the software.  I can’t create the website on my own, I need the technical help, but with this blog software I can pretty much do everything for myself.  Even better!

The one thing I really do want though is my logo.  I’ll need my husband’s help to see if we can put this on somewhere.

So have a look at the article section as well and bit by bit I will increase the content.  A win-win situation I think!

I have also discovered today that it’s my husband that is the real problem for me being disorganised. I achieved so much today after shutting the door on him to his office, which proves that when he’s around I end up ‘having to talk to him about nonsense’! 

It therefore has nothing to do with the fact that I am easily distracted and have been likened to a butterfly in the way I work and it’s really me that keeps interrupting him.  Does it?

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