Got out a roast chicken to put in the crockpot after I got home from the gym today. I put it in the crockpot but then realised when I got home from school/kindy pick up that I hadn't put the lid on or turned it on so I quickly do that hoping that it will still be ready in time. 6pm DP gets home while I'm still running around the house vacuuming only to discover that I haven't turned the crockpot on at the wall.
Lucky we had sausages in the freezer, the kids were hungry!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Holidays are OVER!!
First day back at school today and Cole is back at kindy this afternoon, not really too sure what I'm going to do with myself yet - probably carry on with my early spring cleaning I've been doing (nesting already?) either that or go to the gym.
We got a rug doctor on saturday and I spent a few hours cleaning our carpet, couches and curtains, Steve did the car too. Still dealing with the wet carpet smell but I've got all the windows open and the dehumidifier in the hallway so hopefully it won't be too much longer til its dry.
I've been having weird violent dreams lately - maybe I've been playing too much mafia wars on facebook lol
Things I'm thankful for today:
We got a rug doctor on saturday and I spent a few hours cleaning our carpet, couches and curtains, Steve did the car too. Still dealing with the wet carpet smell but I've got all the windows open and the dehumidifier in the hallway so hopefully it won't be too much longer til its dry.
I've been having weird violent dreams lately - maybe I've been playing too much mafia wars on facebook lol
Things I'm thankful for today:
- School and kindy is BACK
- Have lovely and clean carpets
- Finally getting caught up on the backlog of washing!
- Gorgeous sunny day
- I have one more week til Semester 2 starts
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Completely over it
Its been 3 hours and I'm still waiting for the kids to finish picking all their crap off their bedroom floor. I refuse to do it for them now cos then they expect to always be waited on hand and foot with and there is no way I'm going to be their slave! I'm tired of them having no respect for me and the constant tidying up I have to around here thanks to them, housework is never ending.
I've been getting tough on them lately and trying to make them more independent, especially with Zac - he is definitely more than capable of turning the tap on and getting his own glass of water at almost 6 years of age!
So anyway I'm basically at the end of my rope with the pair, I've heard every excuse under the sun, Cole has having a massive fit for the last 20 minutes because I've finally had enough and told them under no uncertain terms they were not to leave their bedroom until they were done. As I keep saying to them... if they don't want to clean it up, don't make the damn mess to start with! They never learn. I'm sick of yelling at them so I'm leaving them to it for a while.
*******
Well its been half an hour and its finally done!
I went in and picked up their paper rubbish and vacuumed so now it shouldn't be too bad for this weekend when we get the carpets cleaned, Steve's gonna have to move most of the stuff out himself so I wanna have everything as organised as possible so its not so bad for him.
Mmm I'm enjoying a yummy hot chocolate right now.
Pregnancy hormones have well and truly set in now I think, being really tired all the time doesn't help either plus I've got 2 kids this time around that still have just as much energy as they always have.
Things I'm thankful for though!
I've been getting tough on them lately and trying to make them more independent, especially with Zac - he is definitely more than capable of turning the tap on and getting his own glass of water at almost 6 years of age!
So anyway I'm basically at the end of my rope with the pair, I've heard every excuse under the sun, Cole has having a massive fit for the last 20 minutes because I've finally had enough and told them under no uncertain terms they were not to leave their bedroom until they were done. As I keep saying to them... if they don't want to clean it up, don't make the damn mess to start with! They never learn. I'm sick of yelling at them so I'm leaving them to it for a while.
*******
Well its been half an hour and its finally done!
I went in and picked up their paper rubbish and vacuumed so now it shouldn't be too bad for this weekend when we get the carpets cleaned, Steve's gonna have to move most of the stuff out himself so I wanna have everything as organised as possible so its not so bad for him.
Mmm I'm enjoying a yummy hot chocolate right now.
Pregnancy hormones have well and truly set in now I think, being really tired all the time doesn't help either plus I've got 2 kids this time around that still have just as much energy as they always have.
Things I'm thankful for though!
- Hot chocolate
- Finally the boys having a clean tidy room
- Cole going to stay at grandma's tonight :)
- Baby obviously settled in well, considering how I feel lol
- Family cuddles after daddy comes home at night
Friday, July 10, 2009
A full on life!
Trust me not to write for 6 months!
Study has been going well, I'm really enjoying it. I'm doing 3 papers next semester massage, herbs and naturopathy B. I had to drop anatomy and physiology and everything else related to that - biochemistry etc, the paper was way too much to keep on top of from home, I will have to do that paper in class rather than distance learning I'll learn the material better that way.
The plan was to do that next year but we've had a bit of a spanner thrown in the works there and our surprise baby #3 is due in february 2010! Took a little while for that shock to wear off, but we're really excited now. There's been a little confusion about my due date my LMP date is the 18th of Jan but my scan date is the 4th of feb, my midwife said they usually go by the scan date but because of how far out those two dates are from each other and because my midwife found the heartbeat on a doppler at 9 weeks, 4 days she thinks I might be a little further ahead than the scan date as well. I have my NT scan at the end of the month so hopefully that will make things a little clearer.
Boys have been great, had to confiscate their hot wheels cars off them this morning and surprise, surprise there has been no more fighting so far today! At the moment they are colouring quietly together at the table.
We've got a house guest coming to stay for a while from tomorrow. I'm meant to be cleaning out our spare room to get it ready for her - haven't got too far yet though, the problem with pregnancy is it is so hard to get motivated!
Having a few issues with our landlords at the moment too, we had a few months of really really high power bills which turned out to be a problem with the hot water cylinder, took ages to get sorted out and now our landlords are refusing to help with costs - it has cost us in excess of $700 in power and water so that has made life a bit hard. Its Steve's 30th at the end of the month and all the plans I had for it are gone thanks to this. Landlords are the type who don't like spending any money on the house unless they absolutely have to, which also means they've done zero work on it in the time they've owned it and there's quite a bit of work that needs to be done too, they don't have proper drainage under the house so that means every time it rains our garage gets flooded out, the gutters are rusting through, the house gets mould in winter - probably due to how wet it is downstairs, the list goes on.... we'd absolutely LOVE to move but everytime we start to get some savings together something always comes up and we're back to square one.
Well thats us in a nutshell!
Things I'm thankful for today:
Study has been going well, I'm really enjoying it. I'm doing 3 papers next semester massage, herbs and naturopathy B. I had to drop anatomy and physiology and everything else related to that - biochemistry etc, the paper was way too much to keep on top of from home, I will have to do that paper in class rather than distance learning I'll learn the material better that way.
The plan was to do that next year but we've had a bit of a spanner thrown in the works there and our surprise baby #3 is due in february 2010! Took a little while for that shock to wear off, but we're really excited now. There's been a little confusion about my due date my LMP date is the 18th of Jan but my scan date is the 4th of feb, my midwife said they usually go by the scan date but because of how far out those two dates are from each other and because my midwife found the heartbeat on a doppler at 9 weeks, 4 days she thinks I might be a little further ahead than the scan date as well. I have my NT scan at the end of the month so hopefully that will make things a little clearer.
Boys have been great, had to confiscate their hot wheels cars off them this morning and surprise, surprise there has been no more fighting so far today! At the moment they are colouring quietly together at the table.
We've got a house guest coming to stay for a while from tomorrow. I'm meant to be cleaning out our spare room to get it ready for her - haven't got too far yet though, the problem with pregnancy is it is so hard to get motivated!
Having a few issues with our landlords at the moment too, we had a few months of really really high power bills which turned out to be a problem with the hot water cylinder, took ages to get sorted out and now our landlords are refusing to help with costs - it has cost us in excess of $700 in power and water so that has made life a bit hard. Its Steve's 30th at the end of the month and all the plans I had for it are gone thanks to this. Landlords are the type who don't like spending any money on the house unless they absolutely have to, which also means they've done zero work on it in the time they've owned it and there's quite a bit of work that needs to be done too, they don't have proper drainage under the house so that means every time it rains our garage gets flooded out, the gutters are rusting through, the house gets mould in winter - probably due to how wet it is downstairs, the list goes on.... we'd absolutely LOVE to move but everytime we start to get some savings together something always comes up and we're back to square one.
Well thats us in a nutshell!
Things I'm thankful for today:
- Kids being nice to each other
- Finding two perfect houses I'd love to move into - if only we had the cash.
- A healthy baby
- A reasonably tidy house! The kids have been pretty good so far these holidays.
- A beautiful sunny day
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Its all ON!
I bit the bullet a couple of days ago and decided to enroll at a different Natural Therapies college. I've already sent off my student loan application and will be posting off the enrollment form today, just got to get everything crossed the application is all sorted before the cut off date (2nd feb). Yep, apparently I like leaving everything to the very last minute haha, especially considering it was only 2 days ago I decided I was going to do this course. Oh well, if its meant to be....
Been a busy week keeping my cherubs entertained, I was commiserating this morning with another mum talking about our kids constant fighting and how LONG the holidays last for. I think my boys will be pleased to go back to our normal routines and have a bit of a break from each other, I know I will be! Its been about 3 weeks since I last went to the gym, far too hot and by the end of the day I can't be bothered going once Steve gets home from work, looking forward to getting back into routine and going every morning after school drop off though.
Been a busy week keeping my cherubs entertained, I was commiserating this morning with another mum talking about our kids constant fighting and how LONG the holidays last for. I think my boys will be pleased to go back to our normal routines and have a bit of a break from each other, I know I will be! Its been about 3 weeks since I last went to the gym, far too hot and by the end of the day I can't be bothered going once Steve gets home from work, looking forward to getting back into routine and going every morning after school drop off though.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
So annoyed right now...
The other morning I got up and discovered my laptop decided to just stop working, it turns on but won't power up properly, haven't taken it in to be fixed yet but hopefully its nothing too major and can be saved *fingers crossed*. So I'm stuck using Steve's laptop, which is also stuffed and hasn't been fixed yet either (even though its under warranty *rolls eyes*) at least this one still goes though. I hate sharing computers, I'm too used to us having our own I think.
I've lost a child for the week! Steve took Zac over to the inlaws last night and he won't be home til saturday. Cole will be going over there too on friday night so that means Steve and I will be able to have a date night WHOOHOO!!!
I've started planning Steve's 30th too, its not until the end of July but wanted to start looking at what is out there, the rough plan for now is to book a bach out around Piha for the weekend after his birthday and if friends want to join us for a night or two they can. He's not interested in having a party or making a big deal out of it but I want to do something special to mark the occasion, the west coast holds a lot of special meaning for us so it makes sense to incorporate it!
I've lost a child for the week! Steve took Zac over to the inlaws last night and he won't be home til saturday. Cole will be going over there too on friday night so that means Steve and I will be able to have a date night WHOOHOO!!!
I've started planning Steve's 30th too, its not until the end of July but wanted to start looking at what is out there, the rough plan for now is to book a bach out around Piha for the weekend after his birthday and if friends want to join us for a night or two they can. He's not interested in having a party or making a big deal out of it but I want to do something special to mark the occasion, the west coast holds a lot of special meaning for us so it makes sense to incorporate it!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Thoughts
I'm not really sure how to describe whats been in my head so I think I'm just going to start typing and see what comes out.
I've been reading a few blogs about relationships lately and of course that means my thoughts have turned towards my own relationship with Steve. We aren't married and if I'm honest I don't think we ever will be (its one of those if we were going to do it we would have done it years ago type scenarios), in saying that I definitely view our relationship like a marriage and in my heart we are. We have faced some HUGE obstacles and most people would never had survived them.
When I started writing this I thought I might be able to talk about the whole story of the things we have faced but I don't actually think I can, if I'm honest I do still hold some anger about the two years we were apart (yeah it got that bad) but we've still managed to come back from that and have chosen to rebuild our lives together. I know my residual anger is holding me back in our relationship though. I trust him, I believe he learned some invaluable lessons about the value of family, as did I. We are learning to have a lot more faith in each other and for the first time in a long time I can truly say I'm happy. A lot of things will never be the same again, but then there are others that are much much better
I look at my family now and I do feel grateful for where we are today, it could so easily have been different and I am so so glad that it isn't.
So things I'm thankful for today:
I've been reading a few blogs about relationships lately and of course that means my thoughts have turned towards my own relationship with Steve. We aren't married and if I'm honest I don't think we ever will be (its one of those if we were going to do it we would have done it years ago type scenarios), in saying that I definitely view our relationship like a marriage and in my heart we are. We have faced some HUGE obstacles and most people would never had survived them.
When I started writing this I thought I might be able to talk about the whole story of the things we have faced but I don't actually think I can, if I'm honest I do still hold some anger about the two years we were apart (yeah it got that bad) but we've still managed to come back from that and have chosen to rebuild our lives together. I know my residual anger is holding me back in our relationship though. I trust him, I believe he learned some invaluable lessons about the value of family, as did I. We are learning to have a lot more faith in each other and for the first time in a long time I can truly say I'm happy. A lot of things will never be the same again, but then there are others that are much much better
I look at my family now and I do feel grateful for where we are today, it could so easily have been different and I am so so glad that it isn't.
So things I'm thankful for today:
- My family
- 2nd chances
- Hugs
- Time
Monday, December 29, 2008
More things I'm thankful for
Forgot to do this in my last post!
- I'm thankful for my beautiful gifts I got for christmas
- A great christmas day spent with family
- My boys playing nicely together today while its been raining outside
- I'm back in healthy eating mode today.
- We've been spending lots of family time with Steve home on holidays.
Christmas Aftermath
I've uploaded all my christmas pics on facebook so I might as well just post the link here rather than uploading here too. Lazy I know, but I think I'm still recovering from days and days of alcohol consumption after days and days of socialising hehe.
Anyway the photos are here.
We had a great christmas here, we went to my grandparents for breakfast and then came home to cook lunch as Steve's parents and brother came over, as well as my mum and my youngest brother (who had also been at my grandparents too), we all got well spoilt, I think the boys got more than everyone else combined though, they were very lucky.
We haven't been able to organise a babysitter for New Year's so its looking like I'm staying home by myself with the kids this year, Steve is DJing so he kinda has to go to the party. Its ok though, I'll tuck myself up with the kids and watch a few movies probably and keep it low key.
Anyway the photos are here.
We had a great christmas here, we went to my grandparents for breakfast and then came home to cook lunch as Steve's parents and brother came over, as well as my mum and my youngest brother (who had also been at my grandparents too), we all got well spoilt, I think the boys got more than everyone else combined though, they were very lucky.
We haven't been able to organise a babysitter for New Year's so its looking like I'm staying home by myself with the kids this year, Steve is DJing so he kinda has to go to the party. Its ok though, I'll tuck myself up with the kids and watch a few movies probably and keep it low key.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
It feels like a saturday today, but its only tuesday.
Here's a couple of pics taken about 10 minutes ago. Only Zac and I are home so we are all you get!
lol, my face looks really shiny and I have a pimple and Zac looks like some sort of demonic child. Oh well! Its better than nothing.
I just discovered that the course I really really really want to do has changed so I can now do part of my study from home YAY!!! I'm so excited about this. I've spent the last couple of weeks looking at other courses to do to keep myself occupied until I could do this one, but now I don't have to, lucky I didn't enrol for anything else! So I've flicked off an email for more information on how it works, hopefully I'll still be able to get a student loan for it otherwise it'll have to be put on the backburner again and that will make me really annoyed and sad. I'll be doing naturopathy and nutrition, I'm more interested in the nutrition side of things, particularly nutrition for children, but I ultimately want to have my own health store one day and the more solid my background is in natural health the better I think.
Things I'm thankful for today:
lol, my face looks really shiny and I have a pimple and Zac looks like some sort of demonic child. Oh well! Its better than nothing.I just discovered that the course I really really really want to do has changed so I can now do part of my study from home YAY!!! I'm so excited about this. I've spent the last couple of weeks looking at other courses to do to keep myself occupied until I could do this one, but now I don't have to, lucky I didn't enrol for anything else! So I've flicked off an email for more information on how it works, hopefully I'll still be able to get a student loan for it otherwise it'll have to be put on the backburner again and that will make me really annoyed and sad. I'll be doing naturopathy and nutrition, I'm more interested in the nutrition side of things, particularly nutrition for children, but I ultimately want to have my own health store one day and the more solid my background is in natural health the better I think.
Things I'm thankful for today:
- That the course I want to do has a mixed mode option and I can now study from home!
- That Zac got to spend some time with his uncles today, especially Daniel who just flew in from Australia last night.
- I had a great work out at the gym this morning.
- Honest people at Bunnings Warehouse, Steve lost his cell ph and someone who works there found our home number in his ph and rang for him to come and collect it. I'm not sure if he even realised it was missing!
- Zac has had lovely manners all day today. I'm very proud.
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