This past week has been busy but without too much happening... Monday was Bailey's 1st day in his new swimming class. He is now doing laps, one after the other and I think he found it very tiring, but he did it without having to stop. He was very red-faced at the end though but he enjoyed it too which is the main thing. He also has one of his mates now in his class which also adds to the excitement. Luckily he has a good swimming instructor who is kind but firm and won't allow them to mess about in the pool, not that Bailey would anyway. He always does as he is told!
Tuesday I had a specialist appointment and have been sent off to go for a few tests of sorts which I am off to this week and will know more in the following week. One thing after another...
Wednesday there is nothing in my diary. All I can remember is that Bailey went rugby training in the evening and I ended up in bed quite early as I had the worst headache. Apparently Yaz said that she tried asking me for help with her homework whilst I was in bed and I was like a dragon lady! Sorry Yaz! Don't actually remember too much about that...I was also supposed to go through some stretching with Ian to help him loosen up before his Friday soccer match, but that didn't happen either! I also had to go for some blood tests which left me with a huge bruise as my veins didn't want to be prodded and they had to use a child's needle to get the blood out. Will get the results for these this coming week.
Thursday I met a friend for coffee in the morning and then went shopping for a b'day pressie for another friend, then came home and did the housework and cooked dinner before going off to work that afternoon. Yaz was suppposed to go soccer training but had a headache and ended up staying in.
Friday I worked all day without a break for lunch or even a sip of water, picked the kids up from school and had to do some groceries, then had to rush home and put Ramses in his cage to take him to the vets for his yearly vaccinations which was a drama and I am now sporting some lovely arm scratches! Ian played football in the evening in which they lost 1-0. He came home and told me the score and obviously I wasn't really taking anything in and asked him if he scored...uh der! I do listen...just had an air-head moment...they seem to occur quite regularly lately! He is a little stiff and sore after the game so I will have to try and loosen it all up for him. Bailey came out of school feeling unwell and got worse as the night progressed. He is so cute, when he gets the onset of any cold/flu, he says, " Mum I don't feel well because my nose is hot...", how adorable is that?! That's his way of telling that he's getting ill.
I got a lovely surprise at work though. I massaged this lovely lady, who I have seen before and we got on really well. Anyway, her massage ended up being an hour and a half instead of an hour but obviously I only charged her for the hour as it was me that took my time etc...Anyway, when i finished work, the girls at reception handed me a bag which had a couple of gifts in it. It was from my client who I just mentioned and they were a 'thank-you' for giving extra time and care. She bought me a book we were talking about during her session and some incense. This was just such a beautiful thing to do. Totally unnecessary but it really touched me. Lately I've been thinking and feeling more about Universal enrgy etc...and healing crystals and more natural therapeutic approaches,(or hippy crap as Ian puts it), and this lady is into that also. It really inspired me into delving more into this. All weekend I have been joking around with Ian talking about the Universe and inner-goddesses etc...just to wind him up and he thinks I've lost the plot! We are so chalk and cheese when it comes to beliefs but that's O.K. It certainly makes life interesting. I have had the yearning of wanting to learn more so maybe this is the area I will go in to...I promise I haven't turned wierd or anything and I promise I won't end up in some cult...It's just an area of my life that I've always wanted to explore and expand. I have always been drawn to alternative shops and alternative therapies. I know it's not up every ones alley but that's O.K. too. We are all individuals....
Anyway, moving on...
...Saturday Yaz had no soccer so we just chilled. I did some groceries and went to the video store where we borrowed a whole heap of weeklys. Yaz took some horror films to her friends house that she stayed over at last night. Bailey and I watched one of his in the afternoon. By this stage he was really unwell with a sore throat, fever and extreme dizziness. I messaged his rugby manager and told them that he wouldn't be playing today. Ian did some stuff around the house and fixed the strimmer etc...then had his shower and got ready to go and watch some football match that was on at 12.00am at some guys house. He went to the bottle shop and got his supply. He then got all dressed, shoes on ready to go but had about 1/2 hour wait until he went so he sat on the couch...that was the end of him...he never ended up going anywhere. He was knackered poor thing. So he got changed and Bailey, Ian and I watched another of Bailey's dvd's together and Ian fell asleep. He ended up watching half of the football match on tv afterwards but came to bed at half time. It may have been a different story if Man-U were in the game...
So today was another chill-out day. We all got up mid-morning, I went and picked up Yaz from her friends, went to the shops for groceries...again...and am just about to embark on a mountain of ironing.
This week ahead is kind of exciting as on the Friday we are heading up the coast for the long weekend. Ramses has to go into a cat boarding place. I'm not too keen on sending him there as he's never been to one before but there's nothing else we can do. We tried getting a place where we could take him but the places were booked months in advance. It's actually surprising how many apartments, houses are available for taking your pets too! Definitely something I will look into in the future when we go away. No doubt the week will go quite quickly. I have two medical tests to go to so can't wait until I get those over and done with. The Friday is also our 11th Anniversary so of course Iam looking forward to celebrating that with Ian and the kids...probably stuck in terrible long weekend traffic but we'll be together!
I realise I haven't put photos up for quite some time now so I will make sure we take some over the weekend and put them on here the following week. This blog probably won't get done until maybe the midlle of next week now for all of you die-hard followers...all 1 or 2 of you!...if you dare to come back after my hippy-ish spiel...don't worry everything will be normal I promise. I just want to" heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race"...(sorry, wasn't that from a Michael Jackson song?)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
A Wash Out!
This week has been a total wash out in many ways!
We have had an extra-ordinary amount of rain, causing million dollars of damage in Queensland and Northern NSW. The only positive thing is the once desperate, dry dams are now completely full. We didn't get too affected in the way of damage or anything like that, but the kids school got evacuated in the late morning on Wednesday as the weather conditions were deteriorating and the pathways were flooding and they wanted the whole area to be evacuated as a precautionary procedure. The children were thrilled to bits! I picked them up just on midday and one of the teachers said that they expected the school to be closed for the rest of the week. The weather however didn't deteriorate and it cleared up enough for them to go in for the rest of the week, much to their disappointment. All sporting activities were called off, well for Bailey and Ian anyway. Ian's football wasn't on Friday night and Bailey's game has been called off today. Yaz however still managed to play her soccer yesterday where their team won, 2-1.
Bailey however had two little triumphs in sport this week. On Monday, before the 'wash-out', he had a school sports carnival and he came home with a first prize ribbon and the biggest, proudest smile on his face for winning his 80metre sprint. Then on Tuesday at swimming, he got assessed to go up to the next level and got through, so now he goes into an 'Intro class' as of tommorow, another beaming smile from our little boy. He had a good week.
Tuesday was a school strike as the Queensland teachers stood their ground as they are underpaid compared to the other States in Australia, and so they should as well. The children spent the day at home with me and we just had a relaxing day, in fact I can't even remember what we did. Probably just stayed in our pj's all day...kind of like today. It is 1.30pm and we are all in our pj's still. I love these days! So the kids have had a good week really!
Ian had to battle the rain all week with work though and I must admit I do worry about him driving around, not only in the terrential rain, but the danger of the roads etc...Thankfully he is always O.K. and I am just my normal worry-wort self!
It's been a week where I've been able to watch a couple of dvd's. I have just finished watching 'Australia' for the 2nd time with Yazmin. I am just in love with that movie and cried again in all the same spots. Yaz enjoyed it too but thought it was a bit long...I also watched a dvd that I borrowed from a friend, 'Revolutionary Road'. It was a great movie too, but very sad and tragic.
Thursday night I went to a seminar about another kind of therapy. It was very interesting and I would really like to study it but it's the whole time thing and whether or not I want to stress myself out again and put my family through it too. I didn't realise when I was going through it, just how much pressure I was under when I was studying and working and still trying to run the household and take the kids to sports etc...I can't believe I got through it with my sanity actually. I am at the stage where I feel like I need to venture into something else as there is so much to learn and I think that once you're in this kind of therapeutic industry, you want to know everything there is to help people and I kind of feel a bit bound into just a tiny smidgen of what's out there. I know I can't do everything and I am very content at where my business is at, but I have this unexplainable yearning to do more for people....We'll see what the future brings anyway as I'm sure something will happen if it's meant to!
Friday night Bailey went to his friends for a sleep-over. He had a good night as always and they were up bright and early the next day getting maximum time into the hours they had left until I picked him up.
Last night we had some friends over for an Italian feast. Their daughter Victoria is in the same class as Yazmin, the Italian Immersion program and they will be heading off to Italy with 26 other students next year...can't believe it. I'm glad she is getting this opportunity but I'm not going to want to say good-bye...Anyway, I stayed in all day and cooked! I made a minestrone soup, a traditional lasagne, fettucine bosciaola, chicken risotto and Yaz made her famous and beautiful tiramisu. The only thing that I could really eat was the soup and the risotto as I don't eat pasta, but everyone else got stuck into it. There was so much food and there is still quite a bit left too. It's certainly very filling food! So basically I cooked the food for the girls and their up-coming Italian adventure. The fund raising is just about to begin at the school in many different ways and then everything will get finalised and before we know it, they'll be packing their bags and asking for speding money to hit the shores of Italy!
We are heading up the coast in a couple of weeks over the June long weekend. We are going North about 2 hours up where it's just like paradise. It is our Anniversary over the weekend which is one of the reasons for getting away. The other reason is that Ian hasn't had a break of any sort where as the children and I have been to NSW, so it will just be so nice to have some family time away. Unfortunately we will be missing out on a friends 40th B'day celebration where there are a couple of the girls jumping out of a plane. It would have been great to stand very safely on the ground watching them fall safely to the beach below but I'm sure I will hear all about it afterwards anyway.
I am so looking forward to Mum coming up in a couple of weeks as I'm really missing her at the moment. I miss her all of the time obviously but have been very homesick lately, so she will be welcomed with the biggest open arms and who knows, I may never let her go again!
On a final note, Happy B'day to my dear friend Tanya for the 29th. We wish you all the very best and will be thinking of you and missing you....To all of our family and friends that we are no longer physically around, we love you and really miss every single one of you...please never forget that xxxx
We have had an extra-ordinary amount of rain, causing million dollars of damage in Queensland and Northern NSW. The only positive thing is the once desperate, dry dams are now completely full. We didn't get too affected in the way of damage or anything like that, but the kids school got evacuated in the late morning on Wednesday as the weather conditions were deteriorating and the pathways were flooding and they wanted the whole area to be evacuated as a precautionary procedure. The children were thrilled to bits! I picked them up just on midday and one of the teachers said that they expected the school to be closed for the rest of the week. The weather however didn't deteriorate and it cleared up enough for them to go in for the rest of the week, much to their disappointment. All sporting activities were called off, well for Bailey and Ian anyway. Ian's football wasn't on Friday night and Bailey's game has been called off today. Yaz however still managed to play her soccer yesterday where their team won, 2-1.
Bailey however had two little triumphs in sport this week. On Monday, before the 'wash-out', he had a school sports carnival and he came home with a first prize ribbon and the biggest, proudest smile on his face for winning his 80metre sprint. Then on Tuesday at swimming, he got assessed to go up to the next level and got through, so now he goes into an 'Intro class' as of tommorow, another beaming smile from our little boy. He had a good week.
Tuesday was a school strike as the Queensland teachers stood their ground as they are underpaid compared to the other States in Australia, and so they should as well. The children spent the day at home with me and we just had a relaxing day, in fact I can't even remember what we did. Probably just stayed in our pj's all day...kind of like today. It is 1.30pm and we are all in our pj's still. I love these days! So the kids have had a good week really!
Ian had to battle the rain all week with work though and I must admit I do worry about him driving around, not only in the terrential rain, but the danger of the roads etc...Thankfully he is always O.K. and I am just my normal worry-wort self!
It's been a week where I've been able to watch a couple of dvd's. I have just finished watching 'Australia' for the 2nd time with Yazmin. I am just in love with that movie and cried again in all the same spots. Yaz enjoyed it too but thought it was a bit long...I also watched a dvd that I borrowed from a friend, 'Revolutionary Road'. It was a great movie too, but very sad and tragic.
Thursday night I went to a seminar about another kind of therapy. It was very interesting and I would really like to study it but it's the whole time thing and whether or not I want to stress myself out again and put my family through it too. I didn't realise when I was going through it, just how much pressure I was under when I was studying and working and still trying to run the household and take the kids to sports etc...I can't believe I got through it with my sanity actually. I am at the stage where I feel like I need to venture into something else as there is so much to learn and I think that once you're in this kind of therapeutic industry, you want to know everything there is to help people and I kind of feel a bit bound into just a tiny smidgen of what's out there. I know I can't do everything and I am very content at where my business is at, but I have this unexplainable yearning to do more for people....We'll see what the future brings anyway as I'm sure something will happen if it's meant to!
Friday night Bailey went to his friends for a sleep-over. He had a good night as always and they were up bright and early the next day getting maximum time into the hours they had left until I picked him up.
Last night we had some friends over for an Italian feast. Their daughter Victoria is in the same class as Yazmin, the Italian Immersion program and they will be heading off to Italy with 26 other students next year...can't believe it. I'm glad she is getting this opportunity but I'm not going to want to say good-bye...Anyway, I stayed in all day and cooked! I made a minestrone soup, a traditional lasagne, fettucine bosciaola, chicken risotto and Yaz made her famous and beautiful tiramisu. The only thing that I could really eat was the soup and the risotto as I don't eat pasta, but everyone else got stuck into it. There was so much food and there is still quite a bit left too. It's certainly very filling food! So basically I cooked the food for the girls and their up-coming Italian adventure. The fund raising is just about to begin at the school in many different ways and then everything will get finalised and before we know it, they'll be packing their bags and asking for speding money to hit the shores of Italy!
We are heading up the coast in a couple of weeks over the June long weekend. We are going North about 2 hours up where it's just like paradise. It is our Anniversary over the weekend which is one of the reasons for getting away. The other reason is that Ian hasn't had a break of any sort where as the children and I have been to NSW, so it will just be so nice to have some family time away. Unfortunately we will be missing out on a friends 40th B'day celebration where there are a couple of the girls jumping out of a plane. It would have been great to stand very safely on the ground watching them fall safely to the beach below but I'm sure I will hear all about it afterwards anyway.
I am so looking forward to Mum coming up in a couple of weeks as I'm really missing her at the moment. I miss her all of the time obviously but have been very homesick lately, so she will be welcomed with the biggest open arms and who knows, I may never let her go again!
On a final note, Happy B'day to my dear friend Tanya for the 29th. We wish you all the very best and will be thinking of you and missing you....To all of our family and friends that we are no longer physically around, we love you and really miss every single one of you...please never forget that xxxx
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Circus is in Town...
Yes, the circus has arrived in town and casuing excitement amogst lots of children...including mine...well not Yazmin as she has a thing against clowns and the circus really isn't cool to go to! Anyway, I got some free tickets through work so Bailey and I went along yesterday and had a great time. His beautiful face just lit up and was wide eyed throughout the whole thing. He laughed and got frightened over a certain acrobatic stunt and was truly amazed by the juggler! It was a good afternoon and his first circus too.
During the week I don't really think much happened, just the usual work, school etc...Yaz came home from school sick one day and hasn't really felt right since. There is a terrible amount of bugs/viruses going around at the moment and people are dropping like flies! I probably will end up taking her to the Dr.s soon just for an overall check-up as she does seem to suffer a lot of headaches. Unfortunately she may have the migraine jean that I have and may always be a sufferer but it still wouldn't hurt to get a Dr.s opinion. I have recently found a new Dr. who seems to be very thorough and on the ball and has helped me a lot. Good Dr.s are very hard to find these days. The natural therapies industry is growing quite dramatically at the moment and I can seriously understand why.
A very big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DAD Laslett in England! Hope you had a wonderful day and had the day off work? We were thinking of you, as always xxxx
The weekend was quite busy. Yaz had two parties to go to on Saturday. ONe was a sleepover...again, not a sleepover in the fact that they got NO sleep what-so-ever! The parents were knackered the next morning and planned to snooze the day away, which is exactly what Yaz did. She got into bed at 11.00am and didn't surface until dinner time around 6.30pm, stayed up for a couple of hours and then hit the hay again for a good nights sleep. I guess more and more sleepless nights are going to come her way as she grows up...sleepless for us too when she's finally out on the town in just under 4 years! I'm certain I will be 100% grey by then!
We had some friends over for dinner on Saturday night, the first to have dinner with us at the new house. I made some thai food which actually turned out rather tasty! The last time this couple came over I had made a curry and it was disasterous so I think they came with a very open mind but the food was good and everyone enjoyed it. I haven't been able to have a drink for a long time now and I had a couple of wines on Saturday night and I think I'm over drinking. I just don't really enjoy it anymore and I think I consumed more water and coffee than what I did wine! Ian on the other hand made the most of it and him and Mike certainly left a lot of empty bottles on the side for recycling! Still, it's been quite a while since either of us has had an opportunity to drink so one of us had to make the most of it.
Friday night Ian took the night off from soccer and we went to watch the Rugby League at Suncorp Stadium. Yaz didn't come with us...mid you she doesn't come to a lot of things with us anymore...anyway, Bailey and I caught the train into the city and met Ian there. We had a great night getting Maccas for dinner and watching the game. Bailey and Ian went for 1 team and I went for the other so basically I copped it as my team lost. Two against one is never fair! Yaz went to a friends house after school on the Friday and they went to the movies to see 'Angels and Demons' instead.
Tomorrow is a school strike so the kiddies will be at home with me. They are very excited about having a day off.
That's about all I can think of for now. At least I didn't leave it for another week! Take care everyone.
xxxx
During the week I don't really think much happened, just the usual work, school etc...Yaz came home from school sick one day and hasn't really felt right since. There is a terrible amount of bugs/viruses going around at the moment and people are dropping like flies! I probably will end up taking her to the Dr.s soon just for an overall check-up as she does seem to suffer a lot of headaches. Unfortunately she may have the migraine jean that I have and may always be a sufferer but it still wouldn't hurt to get a Dr.s opinion. I have recently found a new Dr. who seems to be very thorough and on the ball and has helped me a lot. Good Dr.s are very hard to find these days. The natural therapies industry is growing quite dramatically at the moment and I can seriously understand why.
A very big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DAD Laslett in England! Hope you had a wonderful day and had the day off work? We were thinking of you, as always xxxx
The weekend was quite busy. Yaz had two parties to go to on Saturday. ONe was a sleepover...again, not a sleepover in the fact that they got NO sleep what-so-ever! The parents were knackered the next morning and planned to snooze the day away, which is exactly what Yaz did. She got into bed at 11.00am and didn't surface until dinner time around 6.30pm, stayed up for a couple of hours and then hit the hay again for a good nights sleep. I guess more and more sleepless nights are going to come her way as she grows up...sleepless for us too when she's finally out on the town in just under 4 years! I'm certain I will be 100% grey by then!
We had some friends over for dinner on Saturday night, the first to have dinner with us at the new house. I made some thai food which actually turned out rather tasty! The last time this couple came over I had made a curry and it was disasterous so I think they came with a very open mind but the food was good and everyone enjoyed it. I haven't been able to have a drink for a long time now and I had a couple of wines on Saturday night and I think I'm over drinking. I just don't really enjoy it anymore and I think I consumed more water and coffee than what I did wine! Ian on the other hand made the most of it and him and Mike certainly left a lot of empty bottles on the side for recycling! Still, it's been quite a while since either of us has had an opportunity to drink so one of us had to make the most of it.
Friday night Ian took the night off from soccer and we went to watch the Rugby League at Suncorp Stadium. Yaz didn't come with us...mid you she doesn't come to a lot of things with us anymore...anyway, Bailey and I caught the train into the city and met Ian there. We had a great night getting Maccas for dinner and watching the game. Bailey and Ian went for 1 team and I went for the other so basically I copped it as my team lost. Two against one is never fair! Yaz went to a friends house after school on the Friday and they went to the movies to see 'Angels and Demons' instead.
Tomorrow is a school strike so the kiddies will be at home with me. They are very excited about having a day off.
That's about all I can think of for now. At least I didn't leave it for another week! Take care everyone.
xxxx
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Mothers Day x
Today is Mothers Day so I would just like to wish my beautiful and ever-so-missed Mother a wonderful day and I love you very, very much. Your gift was gorgeous thankyou and the little verse made me cry...as always! Happy Mothers Day to all of the other Mums out there too. A very belated Happy Mothers Day to Mum in England as I believe your Mothers Day was a couple of months back and we didn't realise, so this wish goes out to you too. I had a lovely day. Got my pressies in the morning,( a cd, dress, sweat shirt, dvd, chockies and a water bottle from Bailey that he chose from the Mothers Day stall at school...sweety pie!), then went to Bailey's football match, then had a picnic down by the bay. The day was beautiful and sunny and there's just something about being by the water, it's so serene and calming! Thankyou to my family for spoiling me! I love you all dearly!
It's been a fortnight since my last entry as I tried doing it last week...usual story about the bad connection. I've worked out now that the earlier on in the day that I do it the better connection I seem to have so I will try and do it every Sunday afternoon now instead of Sunday night.
Last weekend we had a long weekend. Bailey didn't have any sport but Yaz did on the Saturday so we went down to that game. Saturday night we went to Nicky and Seans for dinner. Sunday night we went to Mike and Charmaynes for dinner and Monday we just stayed in catching up on everything else. Long weekends are great! It aslo makes the following week go extra quick too.
During the week I wasn't that well so I had to go to the Dr.s for a couple fo tests. Today both Ian and Yaz are not feeling 100% either and there seem to be a few people around getting ill. It must be that time of the year for all of the different types of influenzas to hit. I hear Australia had it's first victim of the Swine Flu, coming into the country from a trip to America. How must the poor lady feel about being the first reported case bringing it in to Australia?! Not really something you want to be remembered for!
The rest of the week has just been the same old, same old. Bailey had a friend over and Yaz went to a sleep over...well you can't really call it a sleep over if they don't sleep can you! She's been knackered ever since!
Ian played his usual football Friday night. Click on the link to the left to read the match report. He always gets a good mention!
Great news from overseas...cousin Matt looks like he is coming over in January! I am soooo excited! I think at the moment he will be staying with us for a week, so really can't wait and will give him a week he won't forget. There are so many beautiful places to show him. It's going to be soooo much fun.
What else, what else, what else....this is the problem with doing this after a week has passed because I don't remember everything. Oh well.
Hoping that anyone reading this is well and happy. Bit of a boring entry this week, sorry.
'Till next week xxx
It's been a fortnight since my last entry as I tried doing it last week...usual story about the bad connection. I've worked out now that the earlier on in the day that I do it the better connection I seem to have so I will try and do it every Sunday afternoon now instead of Sunday night.
Last weekend we had a long weekend. Bailey didn't have any sport but Yaz did on the Saturday so we went down to that game. Saturday night we went to Nicky and Seans for dinner. Sunday night we went to Mike and Charmaynes for dinner and Monday we just stayed in catching up on everything else. Long weekends are great! It aslo makes the following week go extra quick too.
During the week I wasn't that well so I had to go to the Dr.s for a couple fo tests. Today both Ian and Yaz are not feeling 100% either and there seem to be a few people around getting ill. It must be that time of the year for all of the different types of influenzas to hit. I hear Australia had it's first victim of the Swine Flu, coming into the country from a trip to America. How must the poor lady feel about being the first reported case bringing it in to Australia?! Not really something you want to be remembered for!
The rest of the week has just been the same old, same old. Bailey had a friend over and Yaz went to a sleep over...well you can't really call it a sleep over if they don't sleep can you! She's been knackered ever since!
Ian played his usual football Friday night. Click on the link to the left to read the match report. He always gets a good mention!
Great news from overseas...cousin Matt looks like he is coming over in January! I am soooo excited! I think at the moment he will be staying with us for a week, so really can't wait and will give him a week he won't forget. There are so many beautiful places to show him. It's going to be soooo much fun.
What else, what else, what else....this is the problem with doing this after a week has passed because I don't remember everything. Oh well.
Hoping that anyone reading this is well and happy. Bit of a boring entry this week, sorry.
'Till next week xxx
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