I meant to take a little break, but then I blinked and two months had zipped by. I’m still here, just enjoying the summer. We’ve been doing a lot of fun things and I’ve taken lots of photos. Now that I’ve broken the blank post ice I will be blogging again very soon.
We spent the day at my parent’s house yesterday altogether with my family for Easter. We laughed, searched for eggs, ate, flew kites, played golf, ate some more and had a brilliant time. Eve had a new dress which she was very proud of so I took some photos before it was covered in chocolate and grass stains.
Yesterday Mary Harney announced the decision to halt the provision of the HPV vaccination to girls aged 12 years, a reversal of a decision made last August. This vaccine has the potential to prevent cervical cancer. I believe this is a mistake and this morning a listener on the Ray D’Arcy show suggested a way to let Mary Harney know what we thought: what if we all sent emails to the Minister with photos of their daughters expressing our dismay over this decision to deny these girls a vaccine which may prevent them getting cervical cancer in later years?
The Ray D’Arcy show has a link where you can send an email directly and it will only take a second. You can do it here: Today FM. Or if you’d like to send a photo of your daughter, the address is minister’s_office@health.irlgov.ie
Other blogs talking about this today:
Redmum
Alexia
Damian
The Cedar Lounge
Finally I can upload photos! My broadband has been broken since last week and I was going through withdrawl not being able to upload anything!
So how was your bank holiday weekend? Ours was on the housebound side since Eve wasn’t too well. She was in good spirits though and it was more me and Matt that were going a little stir-crazy being stuck in. We bought her one of those little blow up paddling pools and she spent most of the weekend out in the garden trying to persuade the cats to join her for a swim.
Eve playing hide and seek at my parent’s house a couple of evenings ago. It’s her favourite game right now, much to the distress of her Daddy when she decided to have an impromptu game in the giant Harvey Norman store in Carrickmines over the weekend. Staff were called in, store cameras were used…she’s very, very good at this new game. Thankfully she was found before too long and Matt has just about recovered from the fright. Kids…they’ll put grey hairs on ya!
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