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  • Jun. 10th, 2008 at 7:19 AM
Getting Ready!!!

So I am trying hard to get into a routine, and getting there SLOWLY.  But why did I never buy a clothes drier????  Maybe cause it never rains here, but now at the moment it is and there is nothing clean and my clothes line is full and so is the laundry.........

Hayden and Kayla are staying at there nana's for a week so it is very very quiet here.  And Paul is home to this week so it should make for a peaceful quiet week for us.  

Not much new with Hamish, he is still very slow with the feeding and still does not cry, and I know what mum would complain about that, but it just does not feel natural having to wake a baby to feed them.

Otherwise everyone healthy and well.

How many kids are to many?

  • Jun. 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Getting Ready!!!
Well  trying to get into a routine this time round is not so easy, but I guess its really only day 2 home so I should not be to worried.  I think now all the stress over the last couple of weeks is starting to catch up and bite me in the butt.  And sleep is hard, to often I am checking to make sure Hamish is still breathing that i am not able to sleep even when I amnot feeding.  Little Hamish still does not wake for feeds, or if he does he does not cry, the only time he does cry is if its a nappy change or bath time.So for the first time for me through the night I have to put the alarm on every 4 hours to feed him then it takes a long time to get each feed down as he just wants to sleep though, but a bit more time and weight he should start to pick up.  Paul thankfully is having next week off (he was unable to get any time off this week) so I may catch up on some sleep through the day and not be such a cracky 'B'.  The rest of the kids are so far dealing really well with the new addition, but as I said before it is still early days.  Well anyway I better go as I need to wake Hamish for his 6pm feed, will write again soon.

Back in Whyalla

  • May. 30th, 2008 at 7:05 PM
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Well we are back in the Whyalla Hospital........ dont have much time but posting some pics, know most guys have been getting updates from the grapevine, thankyou for all the thoughts and prayers and truly believe that is the only reason we have got back to Whyalla so soon.

       

Hamish is born

  • May. 17th, 2008 at 7:09 PM
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But there are a few complications, he may have an enlarged heart from xrays that were taken just after birth, he is not breathing well, I am home packing at the moment but we are being flown to Adelaide in about an hour.  Hamish was born at 2:28pm.  Will post more when we get back.  Please pray for Hamish. Having trouble uploading pics, I am very sorry, dont have time to play.

Bec

I wish I could sleep!!!!!

  • May. 15th, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Getting Ready!!!

One of the joys of pregnancy is lack of sleep, and then knowing once you are not pregnant anymore there will be plenty more sleepless nights to go, why does that seem like some cruel mean joke someone is playing on me.

I am trying very hard to enjoy the last few days of my final pregnancy, but it does not feel so enjoyable, I wish I could bottle of the feelings of pregnancy and the feeling of having a life inside to save for a later time where I could really appreciate it.  But instead the two babys here are not feeling the best, little Emma has a dr's appointment today, i think I have a little of it so I am trying to flush it through my system as quick as I possibly can, and I am just so tired, but no rest for the wicked, I have assignments and tutorials coming out of my ears.  I have decided and it has been approved to have 6 months off after this study period though, that way I can enjoy just being a mum again.  

But I must get my butt in gear as I have to go get my darling husbands lunch cooked as he will be home in an hour.  

I miss life sometimes, things just seem to be so busy and hectic that there is no time to just relax and smell the roses.  And not just that, I also would hate to feel that my family and friends think I dont appreciate them anymore and I am taking them for granted and I am so sorry if they do.  I am so lucky to have the people that are in my life, and I can never forget that, thank you for your thoughts, your support ,I could not be the person I am without you :-)

Well I really do need to go.  Will be posting pictures very soon I am sure.

LIFE SUCKS

  • Apr. 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Getting Ready!!!
Ok so I am feeling like crap so my mood is on par.  The pregnancy is taking its toll.  I feel like death warmed up, constant pain, and just about as run down as you can get.  This could be a whole whining post but I am not going to do that, I am very lucky and I need to remeber that then maybe i wont feel so crap, Hamish is healthy, all the kids are healthy as much as we are having issues with all of them, they have tere health and thats great.  Paul is more fit and healthy than he has been since he was a teenager, he still gets his sore back here and there but for overall health he is doing wonderful.  The weather is getting to a livable level, still have to turn the a/c on in the afternoons but its getting there.  

Even trying to think of all the god things I can't help but to think of 10 bad things to every 1 good thing, I don't want to feel this way, there are many things to be greatful for, this is life though, I guess at some stage we all feel like this.

Hoping to feel better tomorrow :-)

Slack is the word.

  • Apr. 18th, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Getting Ready!!!
Ok so I know I am slack, but between study and contractions, iIhave bee doing some heavy duty nesting.  I feel like a whale, even Pauls clothes (which are now to big for him, good on ya honey) are tight around this belly of mine, so I am just uncomfortable, sore and GRUMPY!!!!! So we are just going to keep Hamish in the cooker for a few more weeks and then get the bugger out a little early.

Well that husband of mine is caling me in, it is nice just sitting in the court yard typing away, its dark but I have the mozzie candles on and its nice, quiet, cool, relaxing.  Something that I dont think I am going to get much of soon.

Signing off for now.

You asked for it...........

  • Apr. 14th, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Getting Ready!!!


Now the movie....

Easter Weekend

  • Mar. 23rd, 2008 at 3:14 PM
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Well today is the end of the busy time for the weekend.   Friday I went mad baking for Saturday, from the moment I woke till the moment I went to bed, I was cooking.  Saturday was a good day, we had our meeting at church in the morning, had lunch there, then cam e home for a few house till Paul's big moment.  We got to church early for the vigil, but all went well.  Had another eat after church in the hall then got home about 10pm.  

Today being easter Sunday, has been a slow day but still a busy day with people coming in and out, but so far so good.

Nothing new to report with anything else, need to get some homework done, might go through some more lecture material tonight.

I want a latte CHUMBY

  • Mar. 19th, 2008 at 11:42 AM
Getting Ready!!!
http://www.chumby.com/

Check them out they are so cute.
Getting Ready!!!
Life has been very confusing to me, my only constant is Paul and the kids, the rest, well I just don't know where it all will fit in, where do you call you life your own, to make decisions only based on your constants without the feeling of guilt?  and how do you deal with not having the choices you want to make? the world will always go on, but you have to live with these pre determined decisions everyday no matter how much that this is not how you want to live your life, and still there is always another day.

Anyway things have been well boring in some sence of the word, my days are mainly taken by tutorials, practicals, assignments, lecture notes, readers, then through in the house works, some motherly duties and thats my life, and no matter how  hard I work on each task they all seem to miss out and not get enough done. And my memory, I feel like an 80y.o., so if I forget something right now, please forgive me.  Pauls been great, he cooks at the weekends, he even did a huge amount of ironing today, but no matter how much he tries right now I am still not getting enough done.

Well dinners ready so I have to run, thought I better attempt some sort of entry as it has been some time.

Slack I know

  • Mar. 6th, 2008 at 9:12 AM
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But I have been busy, not doing anything interesting though just busy in general, can't think of anything to report ither, got another bunch of tests next week, counting down to our trip to Adelaide though, can't wait.

Anyway thats us.... busy busy busy :-)

Our trip to Tumby

  • Feb. 18th, 2008 at 9:13 AM
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Well all in all it was a good trip.  The kids caught more fish than they could count, and they in general had a ball.  Weather was great and were we stayed was brilliant.



Anyway I will post a bunch more photos on facebook........................

We came back a bit browner, tired and less in our bank account but the memories are all worth it.  



Weekend here I come.

  • Feb. 15th, 2008 at 7:21 AM
Getting Ready!!!
Noon today is the time, we are leaving for the weekend and running away to Tumby Bay, something we all need, to relax and unwind.  I am so looking forward to it.

Yesterday we got our new pram for baby #5, so now I am trying to find a toddler seat, I can get them anywhere in black but I obviously want navy.  I am sure Ill get one, just need to keep an eye out on ebay.



Well thats us till Sunday afternoon, I am now going to get showered and drop the Emma off at the sitter, then pack the car so we can leave for the quick dash where we can not even be contacted by mobile phones.......YEAY

I am Australian

  • Feb. 10th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
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I would like to commend John Howard for refusing to give the Aborginal people an apology, it is great that even though he is no longer a PM he has the balls to stand up to what he believes, something which the current PM lacks, but if we were to apologies let see what it should look like:

AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY TO THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION

We apologise for giving you doctors and free medical care, which allows you to survive and multiply so that you can demand apologies.

We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the English language and thus we opened up to you the entire European civilisation, thought and enterprise. 

We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes for you, which you have vandalised and destroyed.
We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped prevent you from slaughtering one another and using the unfortunate for food purposes.

We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which today feed you people, where before, you had the benefits of living off the land and starving during droughts.

We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric to replace that animal skins you used before.

We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between cities and building cars so that you no longer have to walk over harsh terrain.

We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay the installments . 

We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere, whenever.

We apologise for giving each and every member of your family $100.00 and free travel to attend an aboriginal funeral.

We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white people have to pay.

We apologise for giving you interest free loans.

We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including gold and diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their value.

We apologise for developing Ayers rock and Kakadu, and handing them over to you so that you get all the money.

We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards daughters' wedding ($8,000.00 each daughter).

We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your 250,000 people, which is $48,000.00 per aboriginal man, woman and child.

We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your welfare, medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2 billion each year.

We apologise for you having to approach the aboriginal affairs department to verify the above figures.  For the trouble you will have identifying the "uncle toms" in your own community who are getting richer and leaving some of you living in squalor and poverty.

We do apologise.  We really do.  We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins. 
  

Anniversary Present

  • Feb. 8th, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Getting Ready!!!

Well as we all know its about the 12 months mark of our marriage, and on a shopping trip today Paul pulled me into a jewlerry store and said "what do you want" I was like ummmmm nothing (hay I am a women, we are ment to sound that way) anyway I got a lovely necklace.

So as well as my trips away I got a necklace, DS games and a wii game......................wooo hooo got to love my husband, think I better repay him tonight ;-)