We started the year well and got the bathroom sorted...having a bigger bath is lovely for DD and also DS1 who likes having a wash in a bath rather than perpetual showers but the last bath was really narrow. The bath lift also works incredibly well. It's so much easier for DD to wash, she is washing just because...even twice in one day when her hips were really painful! Getting through a lot of bath bombs! Very much worth it.
The car is also sorted! We'd been half looking at getting a car through Motability for a while bur it obviously takes away part of DD's PIP money so she wasn't too keen. Well this year she decided she's go for it and we got a brand new Honda Jazz...a hybrid so it's automatic...a steep learning curve but getting easier very quickly. DD chose a pearly white colour rather than the red we have had for years...it's very clean and bright looking. Fortunately the 'new' smell is fading already, not a great smell!
The one job that really didn't seem doable this year was getting the kitchen sorted. After lockdown everyone is wanting work done on their house so kitchen fitters...and everyone else...are maxed out. We did go and look at Wren's, which is a national company, as they advertise fitting, the kitchen looked fine and the price was okay but getting a timetable for fitting was obviously going to be tricky, also they don't do flooring or tiling so they would have needed sorting afterwards. I was doom scrolling lists of local kitchen fitters...something I have done LOTS and found a company that is absolutely perfect that does a TOTAL kitchen fit....they are even going to replaster the room! How I've not found them earlier I will never know. Anyway we've got the kitchen planned and it should be installed at the end of September!!!
So the only job on my list that won't get sorted this year is the carpet in the hall and stairs and replacing the book cases but that can be sorted next year, the kitchen is the big job that really needs doing. It was a really cheap kitchen over 16 years ago and is falling apart and looks grubby no matter what I do to try and keep it clean.! Can't wait for all the work to be done.
Other good news DS1 got a significant pay rise at work...they are very keen to keep him which is good to know. He is talking about sorting his driving license which would be a major step for him. Then he can hopefully start dating maybe and move out...actually have a life!
It is really sad with all this good news that I haven't even thought of telling my parents any of it...they just wouldn't be interested. Even assuming I could get them to hear...I seriously don't think they register my voice, but then I'm not sure DP hears me either!
But this year is definitely going well so far...okay DD isn't well. She is saying that she may be plateauing, which would be nice, I guess...though the prospect of looking after a daughter who needs as much support as she does long term is daunting...but I'm not convinced her energy levels are as steady as she thinks. She is still deteriorating, I think, maybe just not as fast. Still we are looking to replace her wheelchair, the chair we got to replace her old one is okay but just not what she wants so we are off, maybe next week, to order a new chair...it will be exactly like the old one...at least there won't be a learning curve getting used to it!
Update: well a new wheelchair has been ordered. DS2 managed to break the current chair, not on purpose but it's still broken. Luckily it's still useable but not awfully safe, the clip keeping it ridged has been snapped off. Unfortunately the new chair is not going to arrive anytime soon...looks like 12 weeks and counting. Still it's been ordered and paid for so it will come eventually.
