I have had such a wonderful week, but it has gone so fast as it always does.
Movie Night
Last Friday night Izzy had a friend Shae* over. I think I was about as excited as the girls because it was the first time Izzy had invited a child for a sleepover. By the end of the night I was a little bit regretting agreeing to a sleepover on a night when Logan was working. Bay was determined to have Shae's little fan thing and Shae, not having any younger siblings was not used to little ones and didn't understand that he didn't understand not to touch other peoples things. This caused quite a headache (literally) for me. It wasn't so bad after dinner though, the boys headed upstairs to chill on the bed and watch Monsters Ink on one of the laptops, and I made popcorn for the girls as they snuggled up on the sofa bed with a pile of pillows and a few quilts to watch barbie.
Unfortunately Izzy fell asleep around 9pm and poor Shae was really upset. I had a lovely little chat with her and then called her mum to come pick her up.
(I had a lovely little chat with her too, she is such a lovely lady from NZ and, wait for it.. she agreed with me that Queenslander's, at least where we live, are so hard to get to know and befriend haha! Good to know it isn't just me)
Saturday was a quiet day as Logan had to work all day and Izzy went up the road to another friends for a play. Sunday was just as quiet because Shae and her mum picked up Izzy nice and early and kept her until dinner time.
Monday I studied with Logan, Tuesday we went to the cinema to see Vampire Academy and then when I got home my new (to me) iPhone was in the mailbox. Yay!!
Coffee Date
Yesterday Bay and I finished the grocery shopping and then finished up with a lovely little coffee date, one of my favourite parts of each week.
Today I dyed my hair, tanned my legs and relaxed, read and played with Logan's new MacBook Pro.
Oh, and because I've not been busy working on assignments I've actually managed to keep the house spotless, more or less. I can't believe it's almost the weekend again!! Time flies when you're having fun!
New Hair
Bay is back in nappies, at home at least. We were getting no where and I don't want to make the same mistake with him that I did with Izzy, so I refuse to push him. They are continuing to encourage him to use the toilet at daycare, but I am going to give him for a break for a few weeks and see how he goes then.
Tomorrow I'm heading back into the College with Logan. After such a relaxing, fun week, it's time to buckle down and get my assignments done! I have to admit, I am really nervous about it. My migraines have been so bad lately, every day this week my head has been thumping before 9am. I'm not exactly looking forward to sitting at the college in front of a computer for hours a day with a migraine! I meant to make a doctors appointment this week but I guess I was having too much fun.
My goal for the following week is to get this unit of study done without letting it stress me or get in the way of my 1 hour a night with my children. This week I was making printables to organise my life and that includes Monthly, Weekly and Daily planners. Hopefully, using those, I will be able to manage my time a bit better.
You should never let something that needs doing become more important than someone that needs loving.
Wish me luck lovelies.
*Name is a pseudonyms
So I'm pretty sure that every day is 'One Of Those Days'. In their own individual ways obviously, but still classed as 'One Of Those Days'.
This is how my day went today:
- I sweated my ass off (not literally unfortunately) walking the kids to school and daycare and then home with some shopping; and
- Looked after a baby for a friend - which took 6 hours instead of the 1 it was supposed to and was a very loud time for me as the baby cried on and off the whole 6 hours (thanks for the help with this one Logan); and
- Got absolutely no housework or studies or website building done because said baby is rather clingy; and
- Sweated my ass off yet again picking the kids up from school - which was rather eventful what with Zay cracking it and running off and Logan having to chase him and then Zay screaming the rest of the way home; and
- Looked at my website finally, but by then the brain had already switched off so I just closed it for the day; and
- Picked up Bay, resulting in a lovely walk in the cool cool breeze (finally a plus) only to;
- Decide to be rid of the spiderwebs on the front screen door/window, when Izzy closed the front door behind her only to then find that we were locked out.
What a wonderful day!!
Luckily a wonderful couple two houses up, who, by the way, don't speak much English - which of course didn't make them any less pleasant, but did cause a bit of awkwardness when I had to tell their maybe five or six year old daughter what I wanted so she could translate it - helped us out by lending me their phone to call the front office for assistance and then the lovely male of the couple rode his pushy down to the office to collect and then return the spare key for me.
This kindness actually made my day.
So after a very long and mostly unproductive day, I'm chilling out with the kiddies for a movie night. A very nice way to end a stressful day! You know what else lifts my spirits? Seeing this;
Cute right? That's Fireman Ted right there, getting all dressed up for dinner. Gotta be ready you know? Never know when the stove might catch alight.. especially with Izzy cooking ;-)
Yours in this crazy world of parenting,
Sami :-)
So I've pretty much spent this whole day, this day that was supposed to be spent on my assignments, blogging. On the plus side, I have this cool new blog to share with the world.. and I got to use my new skills in HTML to add that lovely menu bar so that you can access my recipes on a separate blog from here, which is pretty cool..but on the downside, I am no closer to finishing my website for my assignment then I was 24 hours ago.
Yeah, Shit.
Ah well, you win some, you lose some hey?
And right now I should be getting ready to take Izzy to the doctors to see what the sore on her eye is, but I'm still sitting here instead. Tapping away at the keys. It will all end in a mad rush no doubt, but I honestly just cannot be bothered getting up! I did try talking Logan into taking her but he says that wouldn't be fair because he picked the kids up from school so even though I dropped them off I guess it is still my turn.
I'm not always this lazy I swear (or maybe I am..)!
Oh and after taking her to the doctors I have to pick up Bay and then organize something for dinner. For a person who loves organization, I really am not doing too well right now.
But hey, I added that menu bar! All by myself. Yep, I'm proud.
So proud infact, that I required not one, not two, maybe not even three, but more like four high fives from the husband. Yep, four, cos that's how cool I am today.
Yours in this crazy world of parenting,
Sami :-)
